| <boardmember id="merks" type="committer"> |
| <name>Ed Merks</name> |
| <title>Senior Technical Staff Member</title> |
| <image> merks.jpg </image> |
| <email>merks@ca.ibm.com</email> |
| <phone> 905-413-3265 </phone> |
| <contact> <![CDATA[ |
| IBM Toronto Software Lab<br> |
| D3/0RB8/8200/MKM<br> |
| 8200 Warden Ave.<br> |
| Markham, ON L6G 1C7<br> |
| Canada |
| ]]> </contact> |
| <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[ |
| Eclipse Modeling Project Co-lead<br> |
| Eclipse Modeling Framework Project Lead |
| ]]> </eclipse_affiliation> |
| <vision> <![CDATA[ |
| <p> |
| Eclipse's momentum continues to build |
| and that momentum is driven primarily by the committer community, |
| i.e., by people like you and me. |
| Our growing influence as individuals presents new and exciting opportunities. |
| As a committer representative on the board, |
| I will continue to promote the rights and privileges of committers |
| and to take forward the issues and concerns that are near and dear to the developer's hearts. |
| I intend to be a visible and approachable technical representative, |
| not a politician. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| I believe that helping others is its own reward. |
| With many thousands of answers to questions across a wide range of Eclipse's newsgroups last year, |
| and with active blogging to promote a sense of community, |
| my track record of helpfulness speaks for itself. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| I will continue to foster a diverse and growing community |
| that encourages and strives for the type of excellence that has made |
| Eclipse what it is today. |
| The modeling project, something over which I have more direct control, |
| is just one example of the exciting things |
| that a <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/project-info/team.php">diverse group of individuals</a> can accomplish. |
| Eclipse's release train process is yet another success story that demonstrates |
| the kind of cooperation that can help our community strive for ever greater achievements. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| I will work hard to ensure that Eclipse's processes are the best they can be |
| and are ever improving. |
| I believe in encouraging and rewarding positive behavior, |
| and in defining minimal processes that focus on best practices and achievable realistic results. |
| I oppose restrictions that seek to coerce compliance to arbitrary questionable rules, |
| i.e., rules that are primarily designed to exclude certain groups or to make first and second class citizens in our community. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| I like to lead by example, to have others do as I do, |
| rather than set unrealistic benchmarks for others to follow |
| and then sit back with the expectation that others should do my bidding. |
| If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well and it's worth participating. |
| As your representative I commit to working tirelessly to promote not only |
| Eclipse itself but also the community that drives it. |
| Collectively, we are Eclipse and I would be honored to serve Eclipse for another term. |
| </p> |
| ]]> </vision> |
| <bio> <![CDATA[ |
| <p>Ed Merks is the project lead of the Eclipse Modeling Framework project and |
| a co-lead of the top-level Modeling project. He has many years of in-depth |
| experience in the design and implementation of languages, frameworks, and |
| application development environments. He has been an active committer at |
| Eclipse since 2002, with more than 1/2 million lines of committed code, and |
| was the winner of last year's top committer award. |
| This year he is one of four finalists for the top ambassador award. |
| He holds a Ph.D. in computing science and is a co-author of the authoritative |
| "Eclipse Modeling Framework, A Developer's Guide" (Addison-Wesley 2003). He |
| works for IBM Rational Software at the Toronto Lab.</p> |
| ]]> </bio> |
| <affiliation> <![CDATA[ |
| IBM Rational Software, Toronto Lab |
| ]]> |
| </affiliation> |
| </boardmember> |