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<name>Ed Merks</name> | |
<title>President, Macro Modeling</title> | |
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<email>Ed.Merks@gmail.com</email> | |
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Eclipse Modeling Project Lead<br> | |
Eclipse Modeling Framework Project Lead | |
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Eclipse is an evolving diverse community driven by a broadening constellation of contributors: | |
large and small commercial interests, educational institutions, and our dedicated committer community, i.e., people who do day-to-day development at Eclipse like you and me. | |
With increasing diversity, particularly the shift from a small number of large commercial interests to a broad spectrum of organization types and sizes, | |
our influence as individuals grows, presenting interesting challenges and exciting opportunities. | |
Even the types of the projects hosted at Eclipse is diversifying to include things like Orion, i.e., projects that aren't written in Java and don't use OSGi. | |
To facilitate healthy, long-term growth, we need more flexible licensing and infrastructure to ensure that Eclipse is an attractive place to host a broadening range of open-source projects. | |
As your committer representative on the board, I will employ my six years of experience to promote the rights and privileges of committers and to focus on such issues. | |
I will continue to be a visible and approachable technical representative, who navigates the political landscape on your behalf. | |
I feel I've demonstrated this with my long track record as your representative on the board. | |
My background as a Canadian immigrant, born in the Netherlands, currently living in Berlin and learning German, sensitizes to me the fact that great communities span cultural and linguistic boundaries. | |
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Cliche as it may sound, I believe strongly that helping is its own reward. | |
I answer questions daily on a broad range of newsgroups, not just those for my own projects, | |
I blog to promote a sense of community, | |
I fix bugzillas quickly for the users of my software, | |
and I develop cool new features whenever possible. | |
I am deeply honored to have received Eclipse's <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20120326_awardwinners.php">Lifetime Contribution Award</a> in 2012. | |
I feel my track record as an Eclipse committer since 2002 is demonstrated with deeds not merely with words. | |
I focus on being a positive influence and on balancing the drive to fix problems and to make improvements | |
with recognition of the fact that real problems are difficult to solve and that what constitutes improvement is often highly subjective. | |
A case in point is the issue of | |
<a href="http://ed-merks.blogspot.com/2008/02/one-committer-one-vote.html">one committer one vote</a> | |
which required a change to the by-laws and was <a href="http://eclipse.org/membership/vote2011/">approved | |
by the membership</a> in 2011. | |
Not everyone agreed this was an improvement, independent committers like me lost a degree of influence for their vote, | |
but I'm quite sure the vast majority of the committers feel everyone's vote is now more fairly reflected in the elections. | |
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I will continue to work hard to ensure that Eclipse's processes are the best they can be and are ever improving, e.g., streamlining the external contribution process via git. | |
I believe in minimal processes that focus on best practices and achievable, pragmatic results. | |
I oppose restrictions that seek to coerce compliance to arbitrary questionable rules, particularly rules that are primarily designed to exclude certain groups | |
or to make first and second class citizens in our community. e.g., non-proportional committer voting. | |
I can be counted upon as the person who will speak up diplomatically even when personal risk is involved. | |
As your representative I commit to working tirelessly to promote not only Eclipse itself but also the community that drives it. | |
It has been an honor and a privilege to serve as your representative these past years. | |
If reelected, you can count on the fact that Merks works for you. | |
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<bio> <![CDATA[ | |
Ed Merks founded his own small consulting company, <a href="http://www.macromodeling.com/" target="blank">Macro Modeling</a>. He | |
is a coauthor of the authoritative book "<a href="http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=9780321331885" | |
target="blank">EMF: Eclipse Modeling Framework</a>" which is published as a second expanded edition. He has been | |
an elected member of the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/foundation/directors.php" target="blank">Eclipse Foundation | |
Board of Directors</a> for the past six years and has been recognized by the Eclipse Community Awards as | |
Top New Comer Evangelist, Top Ambassador, and Top Committer, as well as for Lifetime Achievement. Ed is well known for his dedication to the | |
Eclipse community since 2002, posting literally thousands of newsgroup answers each year. He spent 16 years at IBM, | |
achieving the level of Senior Technical Staff Member after completing his Ph.D. at Simon Fraser University. He is a | |
partner of <a href="http://www.itemis.com/" target="blank">itemis AG</a> and is currently living in Berlin and learning German. His | |
experience in modeling technology spans twenty-eight years. | |
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<a href="http://www.macromodeling.com/" target="blank">Macro Modeling</a>, President<br> | |
<a href="http://www.itemis.com/" target="blank">itemis AG</a>, Partner | |
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