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[NOMINATION] Dennis Hamilton for Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair
It's my birthday and it just seemed a good idea to move the needle on Priority #1. I'm rather uncomfortable about self-nomination yet I figure the conversations and discussion are of value.
I hereby nominate myself as the replacement for Andrea Pescetti as Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE CHAIR
My promise, if selected, is to faithfully deliver on the responsibilities of a PMC Chair as required of an Officer of the Foundation.
APPROACH TO APACHE OPEN OFFICE
With regard to the PMC, which I am not a member of, my promise is to serve as an effective member of that community and with particular attention to PMC responsibilities to the Foundation but also to the cultivation of a sustainable, thriving project.
As an AOO committer, my personal itch is around intake of new developers and reducing the friction and learning curve that goes with that. I am also personally committed to furthering the interoperability among ODF-supporting products of all kinds in whatever ways that works for Apache OpenOffice. I have been training to become more involved in the code, as slow as I am at that. I am also interested in how user support can be broadened and materials brought current and highly-available.
WHERE'S DENNIS BEEN?
Folks who've been here since OpenOffice came to the ASF will recall that I was a member of the PPMC and did not continue after graduation to a Top Level Project. On the PPMC I was an initial committer and I contributed to administrative activities for some mailing lists, intake of new committers and PPMC members. I was particularly pleased to participate in the preservation of the OpenOffice Forums.
I have no difficulty with administrative, procedural, and policy matters. My departure was more from recognition that I was not equipped to work on the code and that I did not just want to continue as an administrative resource. I also left the OASIS ODF TC around the same time.
Meanwhile, I engaged in some training, including in security and cryptography, an interest of mine with respect to document privacy. Last year I became interested in change-tracking and I'm currently putting the final touches on two workshop papers I presented last September. I also did some course-work in software development and I am continuing that.
It was renewed interest in tracked changes and other aspects of ODF interoperability that brought me back to following AOO lists. My participation has increased to the current level over the past few months. I also joined the Apache Corinthia Incubator as an initial committer and PPMC member of that newborn podling.
NO REALLY, WHERE HAS DENNIS BEEN?
I wrote my first line of code when I was 19. That was in May, 1958. I went through the usual progression of development from programmer to becoming a lead developer on what we called systems software, including assemblers, compilers and utilities for the machines of the time. I also did some programming-language design work. I had the good fortune to work at Sperry Univac, in Seattle, New York City, and Blue Bell Pennsylvania during the peak of Grace Hopper's presence there. Although she knew me, I did not do much directly with her (although I graded papers for her once when she was teaching a course in the Wharton School). Later I became a consultant, and after two tours at Xerox Corporation, serving as a software architect and technical-staff member, first in Rochester, New York, and finally in Palo Alto, I retired at the end of 1998. I recommend retirement as a career.
I began working in industry standards when ASCII was a new-born and ALGOL 60 was expected to revolutionize programming. Document formats became of interest while I was at Xerox and I participated in development of consortium agreements for document management. Most of my internal work in my later Xerox years was around interoperability provisions of various kinds. I dug into OOXML and ODF only after my retirement when those standardization efforts were moving along. There are words of mine in both of those specifications.
SO WHAT?
Most of us are only acquainted on the Internet and, while I have met others on AOO, those occasions are rare and fleeting.
More than that, I want to offer, in my nomination, an opportunity to say what doesn't work with regard to me personally. I welcome that. And please express more of what is wanted from the Project that is not happening and how any contributors are expected, not just the PMC and its Chair, to make a difference with respect to the expectations this community has.
I respect all feedback and discussion and I will still be here whatever the outcome of this Priority #1 activity happens to be. I am not attached to being PMC Chair. I am offering to take on those duties as a means for us to move forward onto other priority challenges for the Project.
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Re: [NOMINATION] Dennis Hamilton for Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair
Posted by Kay Schenk <ka...@gmail.com>.
On Jan 25, 2015 4:48 PM, "Dennis E. Hamilton" <or...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> It's my birthday and it just seemed a good idea to move the needle on
Priority #1. I'm rather uncomfortable about self-nomination yet I figure
the conversations and discussion are of value.
>
> I hereby nominate myself as the replacement for Andrea Pescetti as Apache
OpenOffice PMC Chair.
+1 for your self nomination...
And telling us more about yourself and roles you see for yourself in the
project. I'm happy you took this initiative!
>
> RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE CHAIR
> My promise, if selected, is to faithfully deliver on the
responsibilities of a PMC Chair as required of an Officer of the Foundation.
>
> APPROACH TO APACHE OPEN OFFICE
>
> With regard to the PMC, which I am not a member of, my promise is to
serve as an effective member of that community and with particular
attention to PMC responsibilities to the Foundation but also to the
cultivation of a sustainable, thriving project.
> As an AOO committer, my personal itch is around intake of new
developers and reducing the friction and learning curve that goes with
that. I am also personally committed to furthering the interoperability
among ODF-supporting products of all kinds in whatever ways that works for
Apache OpenOffice. I have been training to become more involved in the
code, as slow as I am at that. I am also interested in how user support
can be broadened and materials brought current and highly-available.
>
> WHERE'S DENNIS BEEN?
>
> Folks who've been here since OpenOffice came to the ASF will recall that
I was a member of the PPMC and did not continue after graduation to a Top
Level Project. On the PPMC I was an initial committer and I contributed to
administrative activities for some mailing lists, intake of new committers
and PPMC members. I was particularly pleased to participate in the
preservation of the OpenOffice Forums.
>
> I have no difficulty with administrative, procedural, and policy
matters. My departure was more from recognition that I was not equipped to
work on the code and that I did not just want to continue as an
administrative resource. I also left the OASIS ODF TC around the same time.
>
> Meanwhile, I engaged in some training, including in security and
cryptography, an interest of mine with respect to document privacy. Last
year I became interested in change-tracking and I'm currently putting the
final touches on two workshop papers I presented last September. I also
did some course-work in software development and I am continuing that.
>
> It was renewed interest in tracked changes and other aspects of ODF
interoperability that brought me back to following AOO lists. My
participation has increased to the current level over the past few months.
I also joined the Apache Corinthia Incubator as an initial committer and
PPMC member of that newborn podling.
>
> NO REALLY, WHERE HAS DENNIS BEEN?
>
> I wrote my first line of code when I was 19. That was in May, 1958. I
went through the usual progression of development from programmer to
becoming a lead developer on what we called systems software, including
assemblers, compilers and utilities for the machines of the time. I also
did some programming-language design work. I had the good fortune to work
at Sperry Univac, in Seattle, New York City, and Blue Bell Pennsylvania
during the peak of Grace Hopper's presence there. Although she knew me, I
did not do much directly with her (although I graded papers for her once
when she was teaching a course in the Wharton School). Later I became a
consultant, and after two tours at Xerox Corporation, serving as a software
architect and technical-staff member, first in Rochester, New York, and
finally in Palo Alto, I retired at the end of 1998. I recommend retirement
as a career.
>
> I began working in industry standards when ASCII was a new-born and ALGOL
60 was expected to revolutionize programming. Document formats became of
interest while I was at Xerox and I participated in development of
consortium agreements for document management. Most of my internal work in
my later Xerox years was around interoperability provisions of various
kinds. I dug into OOXML and ODF only after my retirement when those
standardization efforts were moving along. There are words of mine in both
of those specifications.
>
> SO WHAT?
>
> Most of us are only acquainted on the Internet and, while I have met
others on AOO, those occasions are rare and fleeting.
>
> More than that, I want to offer, in my nomination, an opportunity to say
what doesn't work with regard to me personally. I welcome that. And
please express more of what is wanted from the Project that is not
happening and how any contributors are expected, not just the PMC and its
Chair, to make a difference with respect to the expectations this community
has.
>
> I respect all feedback and discussion and I will still be here whatever
the outcome of this Priority #1 activity happens to be. I am not attached
to being PMC Chair. I am offering to take on those duties as a means for
us to move forward onto other priority challenges for the Project.
>
>
> -- Dennis E. Hamilton
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Re: [NOMINATION] Dennis Hamilton for Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair
Posted by Roberto Galoppini <ro...@gmail.com>.
2015-01-26 1:48 GMT+01:00 Dennis E. Hamilton <or...@apache.org>:
> It's my birthday and it just seemed a good idea to move the needle on
> Priority #1. I'm rather uncomfortable about self-nomination yet I figure
> the conversations and discussion are of value.
>
> I hereby nominate myself as the replacement for Andrea Pescetti as Apache
> OpenOffice PMC Chair.
>
> RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE CHAIR
> My promise, if selected, is to faithfully deliver on the
> responsibilities of a PMC Chair as required of an Officer of the Foundation.
>
> APPROACH TO APACHE OPEN OFFICE
>
> With regard to the PMC, which I am not a member of, my promise is to
> serve as an effective member of that community and with particular
> attention to PMC responsibilities to the Foundation but also to the
> cultivation of a sustainable, thriving project.
> As an AOO committer, my personal itch is around intake of new developers
> and reducing the friction and learning curve that goes with that. I am
> also personally committed to furthering the interoperability among
> ODF-supporting products of all kinds in whatever ways that works for Apache
> OpenOffice. I have been training to become more involved in the code, as
> slow as I am at that. I am also interested in how user support can be
> broadened and materials brought current and highly-available.
>
> WHERE'S DENNIS BEEN?
>
> Folks who've been here since OpenOffice came to the ASF will recall that I
> was a member of the PPMC and did not continue after graduation to a Top
> Level Project. On the PPMC I was an initial committer and I contributed to
> administrative activities for some mailing lists, intake of new committers
> and PPMC members. I was particularly pleased to participate in the
> preservation of the OpenOffice Forums.
>
> I have no difficulty with administrative, procedural, and policy matters.
> My departure was more from recognition that I was not equipped to work on
> the code and that I did not just want to continue as an administrative
> resource. I also left the OASIS ODF TC around the same time.
>
> Meanwhile, I engaged in some training, including in security and
> cryptography, an interest of mine with respect to document privacy. Last
> year I became interested in change-tracking and I'm currently putting the
> final touches on two workshop papers I presented last September. I also
> did some course-work in software development and I am continuing that.
>
> It was renewed interest in tracked changes and other aspects of ODF
> interoperability that brought me back to following AOO lists. My
> participation has increased to the current level over the past few months.
> I also joined the Apache Corinthia Incubator as an initial committer and
> PPMC member of that newborn podling.
>
> NO REALLY, WHERE HAS DENNIS BEEN?
>
> I wrote my first line of code when I was 19. That was in May, 1958. I
> went through the usual progression of development from programmer to
> becoming a lead developer on what we called systems software, including
> assemblers, compilers and utilities for the machines of the time. I also
> did some programming-language design work. I had the good fortune to work
> at Sperry Univac, in Seattle, New York City, and Blue Bell Pennsylvania
> during the peak of Grace Hopper's presence there. Although she knew me, I
> did not do much directly with her (although I graded papers for her once
> when she was teaching a course in the Wharton School). Later I became a
> consultant, and after two tours at Xerox Corporation, serving as a software
> architect and technical-staff member, first in Rochester, New York, and
> finally in Palo Alto, I retired at the end of 1998. I recommend retirement
> as a career.
>
> I began working in industry standards when ASCII was a new-born and ALGOL
> 60 was expected to revolutionize programming. Document formats became of
> interest while I was at Xerox and I participated in development of
> consortium agreements for document management. Most of my internal work in
> my later Xerox years was around interoperability provisions of various
> kinds. I dug into OOXML and ODF only after my retirement when those
> standardization efforts were moving along. There are words of mine in both
> of those specifications.
>
> SO WHAT?
>
> Most of us are only acquainted on the Internet and, while I have met
> others on AOO, those occasions are rare and fleeting.
>
> More than that, I want to offer, in my nomination, an opportunity to say
> what doesn't work with regard to me personally. I welcome that. And
> please express more of what is wanted from the Project that is not
> happening and how any contributors are expected, not just the PMC and its
> Chair, to make a difference with respect to the expectations this community
> has.
>
> I respect all feedback and discussion and I will still be here whatever
> the outcome of this Priority #1 activity happens to be. I am not attached
> to being PMC Chair. I am offering to take on those duties as a means for
> us to move forward onto other priority challenges for the Project.
>
Hi Dennis and all,
I'm really grateful to you for both your decision to nominate yourself and
to have written such a nice nomination. I just feel sorry I didn't nominate
you, only reason is that I didn't know you were actually open to do so.
Your dedication to Apache and Apache OpenOffice are admirable, I'm glad we
eventually got the chance to meet in person at OSCON last year, and I'd
really love to see you as AOO Chair, I'm sure you'd do a fantastic job!
Best,
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> -- Dennis E. Hamilton
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Re: [NOMINATION] Dennis Hamilton for Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair
Posted by Marcus <ma...@wtnet.de>.
Am 01/26/2015 01:48 AM, schrieb Dennis E. Hamilton:
> I hereby nominate myself as the replacement for Andrea Pescetti as Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair.
great to see a new volunteer as possible new chair. :-)
Marcus
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Re: [NOMINATION] Dennis Hamilton for Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair
Posted by Donald Harbison <dp...@gmail.com>.
Dennis,
Thank you for this... the project will be well served.
+1
On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 7:48 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton <or...@apache.org>
wrote:
> It's my birthday and it just seemed a good idea to move the needle on
> Priority #1. I'm rather uncomfortable about self-nomination yet I figure
> the conversations and discussion are of value.
>
> I hereby nominate myself as the replacement for Andrea Pescetti as Apache
> OpenOffice PMC Chair.
>
> RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE CHAIR
> My promise, if selected, is to faithfully deliver on the
> responsibilities of a PMC Chair as required of an Officer of the Foundation.
>
> APPROACH TO APACHE OPEN OFFICE
>
> With regard to the PMC, which I am not a member of, my promise is to
> serve as an effective member of that community and with particular
> attention to PMC responsibilities to the Foundation but also to the
> cultivation of a sustainable, thriving project.
> As an AOO committer, my personal itch is around intake of new developers
> and reducing the friction and learning curve that goes with that. I am
> also personally committed to furthering the interoperability among
> ODF-supporting products of all kinds in whatever ways that works for Apache
> OpenOffice. I have been training to become more involved in the code, as
> slow as I am at that. I am also interested in how user support can be
> broadened and materials brought current and highly-available.
>
> WHERE'S DENNIS BEEN?
>
> Folks who've been here since OpenOffice came to the ASF will recall that I
> was a member of the PPMC and did not continue after graduation to a Top
> Level Project. On the PPMC I was an initial committer and I contributed to
> administrative activities for some mailing lists, intake of new committers
> and PPMC members. I was particularly pleased to participate in the
> preservation of the OpenOffice Forums.
>
> I have no difficulty with administrative, procedural, and policy matters.
> My departure was more from recognition that I was not equipped to work on
> the code and that I did not just want to continue as an administrative
> resource. I also left the OASIS ODF TC around the same time.
>
> Meanwhile, I engaged in some training, including in security and
> cryptography, an interest of mine with respect to document privacy. Last
> year I became interested in change-tracking and I'm currently putting the
> final touches on two workshop papers I presented last September. I also
> did some course-work in software development and I am continuing that.
>
> It was renewed interest in tracked changes and other aspects of ODF
> interoperability that brought me back to following AOO lists. My
> participation has increased to the current level over the past few months.
> I also joined the Apache Corinthia Incubator as an initial committer and
> PPMC member of that newborn podling.
>
> NO REALLY, WHERE HAS DENNIS BEEN?
>
> I wrote my first line of code when I was 19. That was in May, 1958. I
> went through the usual progression of development from programmer to
> becoming a lead developer on what we called systems software, including
> assemblers, compilers and utilities for the machines of the time. I also
> did some programming-language design work. I had the good fortune to work
> at Sperry Univac, in Seattle, New York City, and Blue Bell Pennsylvania
> during the peak of Grace Hopper's presence there. Although she knew me, I
> did not do much directly with her (although I graded papers for her once
> when she was teaching a course in the Wharton School). Later I became a
> consultant, and after two tours at Xerox Corporation, serving as a software
> architect and technical-staff member, first in Rochester, New York, and
> finally in Palo Alto, I retired at the end of 1998. I recommend retirement
> as a career.
>
> I began working in industry standards when ASCII was a new-born and ALGOL
> 60 was expected to revolutionize programming. Document formats became of
> interest while I was at Xerox and I participated in development of
> consortium agreements for document management. Most of my internal work in
> my later Xerox years was around interoperability provisions of various
> kinds. I dug into OOXML and ODF only after my retirement when those
> standardization efforts were moving along. There are words of mine in both
> of those specifications.
>
> SO WHAT?
>
> Most of us are only acquainted on the Internet and, while I have met
> others on AOO, those occasions are rare and fleeting.
>
> More than that, I want to offer, in my nomination, an opportunity to say
> what doesn't work with regard to me personally. I welcome that. And
> please express more of what is wanted from the Project that is not
> happening and how any contributors are expected, not just the PMC and its
> Chair, to make a difference with respect to the expectations this community
> has.
>
> I respect all feedback and discussion and I will still be here whatever
> the outcome of this Priority #1 activity happens to be. I am not attached
> to being PMC Chair. I am offering to take on those duties as a means for
> us to move forward onto other priority challenges for the Project.
>
>
> -- Dennis E. Hamilton
> orcmid@apache.org
> dennis.hamilton@acm.org +1-206-779-9430
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RE: [NOMINATION] Dennis Hamilton for Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair
Posted by "Dennis E. Hamilton" <de...@acm.org>.
I was asked off-line whether I would commit to serving for one year.
Yes. I am committed to serving for at least one year if I am selected and approved.
- Dennis
PS: On this birthday, my driving license also had to be renewed. I looked at the black-and-white photo on my temporary replacement and said, "who is that old guy?" Must be PhotoShop! The renewal is for 6 years. It was startling to think how old I will be then. And I intend to be active even longer than that. -- dh
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Subject: [NOMINATION] Dennis Hamilton for Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair
It's my birthday and it just seemed a good idea to move the needle on Priority #1. I'm rather uncomfortable about self-nomination yet I figure the conversations and discussion are of value.
I hereby nominate myself as the replacement for Andrea Pescetti as Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair.
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Re: [NOMINATION] Dennis Hamilton for Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair
Posted by Louis Suárez-Potts <lu...@gmail.com>.
> On 25 Jan 2015, at 19:48, Dennis E. Hamilton <or...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> It's my birthday and it just seemed a good idea to move the needle on Priority #1. I'm rather uncomfortable about self-nomination yet I figure the conversations and discussion are of value.
>
> I hereby nominate myself as the replacement for Andrea Pescetti as Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair.
Good. I second your nomination, if that’s at all relevant. (If not, I just cheer it.)
Best,
louis
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Re: [NOMINATION] Dennis Hamilton for Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair
Posted by Rob Weir <ro...@robweir.com>.
On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 7:48 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton <or...@apache.org> wrote:
> It's my birthday and it just seemed a good idea to move the needle on Priority #1. I'm rather uncomfortable about self-nomination yet I figure the conversations and discussion are of value.
>
> I hereby nominate myself as the replacement for Andrea Pescetti as Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair.
>
+1
-Rob
> RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE CHAIR
> My promise, if selected, is to faithfully deliver on the responsibilities of a PMC Chair as required of an Officer of the Foundation.
>
> APPROACH TO APACHE OPEN OFFICE
>
> With regard to the PMC, which I am not a member of, my promise is to serve as an effective member of that community and with particular attention to PMC responsibilities to the Foundation but also to the cultivation of a sustainable, thriving project.
> As an AOO committer, my personal itch is around intake of new developers and reducing the friction and learning curve that goes with that. I am also personally committed to furthering the interoperability among ODF-supporting products of all kinds in whatever ways that works for Apache OpenOffice. I have been training to become more involved in the code, as slow as I am at that. I am also interested in how user support can be broadened and materials brought current and highly-available.
>
> WHERE'S DENNIS BEEN?
>
> Folks who've been here since OpenOffice came to the ASF will recall that I was a member of the PPMC and did not continue after graduation to a Top Level Project. On the PPMC I was an initial committer and I contributed to administrative activities for some mailing lists, intake of new committers and PPMC members. I was particularly pleased to participate in the preservation of the OpenOffice Forums.
>
> I have no difficulty with administrative, procedural, and policy matters. My departure was more from recognition that I was not equipped to work on the code and that I did not just want to continue as an administrative resource. I also left the OASIS ODF TC around the same time.
>
> Meanwhile, I engaged in some training, including in security and cryptography, an interest of mine with respect to document privacy. Last year I became interested in change-tracking and I'm currently putting the final touches on two workshop papers I presented last September. I also did some course-work in software development and I am continuing that.
>
> It was renewed interest in tracked changes and other aspects of ODF interoperability that brought me back to following AOO lists. My participation has increased to the current level over the past few months. I also joined the Apache Corinthia Incubator as an initial committer and PPMC member of that newborn podling.
>
> NO REALLY, WHERE HAS DENNIS BEEN?
>
> I wrote my first line of code when I was 19. That was in May, 1958. I went through the usual progression of development from programmer to becoming a lead developer on what we called systems software, including assemblers, compilers and utilities for the machines of the time. I also did some programming-language design work. I had the good fortune to work at Sperry Univac, in Seattle, New York City, and Blue Bell Pennsylvania during the peak of Grace Hopper's presence there. Although she knew me, I did not do much directly with her (although I graded papers for her once when she was teaching a course in the Wharton School). Later I became a consultant, and after two tours at Xerox Corporation, serving as a software architect and technical-staff member, first in Rochester, New York, and finally in Palo Alto, I retired at the end of 1998. I recommend retirement as a career.
>
> I began working in industry standards when ASCII was a new-born and ALGOL 60 was expected to revolutionize programming. Document formats became of interest while I was at Xerox and I participated in development of consortium agreements for document management. Most of my internal work in my later Xerox years was around interoperability provisions of various kinds. I dug into OOXML and ODF only after my retirement when those standardization efforts were moving along. There are words of mine in both of those specifications.
>
> SO WHAT?
>
> Most of us are only acquainted on the Internet and, while I have met others on AOO, those occasions are rare and fleeting.
>
> More than that, I want to offer, in my nomination, an opportunity to say what doesn't work with regard to me personally. I welcome that. And please express more of what is wanted from the Project that is not happening and how any contributors are expected, not just the PMC and its Chair, to make a difference with respect to the expectations this community has.
>
> I respect all feedback and discussion and I will still be here whatever the outcome of this Priority #1 activity happens to be. I am not attached to being PMC Chair. I am offering to take on those duties as a means for us to move forward onto other priority challenges for the Project.
>
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> -- Dennis E. Hamilton
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