| <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[ |
| D3/0RB8/8200/MKM<br> |
| IBM Toronto Software Lab<br> |
| 8200 Warden Ave.<br> |
| Markham, Ont.<br> |
| L6G 1C7 |
| ]]> </contact> |
| <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[ |
| Eclipse Modeling Project Co-lead<br> |
| Eclipse Modeling Framework Project Lead |
| ]]> </eclipse_affiliation> |
| <vision> <![CDATA[ |
| <p>Eclipse's momentum is driven primarily by the committer community, and |
| that's you and me. |
| We live in a very exciting world that's rapidly changing in ways that |
| ensure that the individual has more influence than ever before.</p> |
| <p>As a committer representative on the board, I intend to help promote the |
| rights and privileges of committers and to take forward the issues and |
| concerns that are brought to me. |
| I intend to be a visible and approachable technical representative, not a |
| politician.</p> |
| <p>I believe that helping others is its own reward and with more than 3,000 |
| answers to questions on Eclipse's newsgroups last year, my track record of |
| helpfulness speaks for itself.</p> |
| |
| <p>Rights and privileges certainly don't come without responsibilities and |
| that's something every committer should take very seriously. |
| We are collectively responsible for fostering a diverse, growing community |
| that encourages and strives for the type of excellence that has made |
| Eclipse what it is today. |
| But our stellar reputation is easily tarnished by the actions of a small |
| few, so that's something we should all guard against.</p> |
| <p>I'm a firm believer in the right balance of rules: not so many as to be |
| exclusionary or overly restrictive, as if there were a formula for |
| goodness, but enough to ensure that the system functions smoothly. |
| I believe that last year's coordinated release of Callisto is a great |
| example of how well a diverse community can cooperate to achieve a common |
| goal |
| with just the right balance of restrictions and freedoms; |
| Callisto was the single largest coordinated multi-vendor software release |
| our planet has ever seen, which I believe represents a turning point in our |
| industry.</p> |
| <p>This year's Europa release will set an even higher benchmark, and I'd like |
| to think my team and I can help in some small way to further this goal. |
| As your representative I commit to working tirelessly to promote not only |
| Eclipse itself but also the community that drives it. |
| We are Eclipse!</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 one of the three finalists for last year's top committer 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> |