| <boardmember id="merks" type="committer"> |
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| <name>Ed Merks</name> |
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| <title>President, Macro Modeling</title> |
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| <image>merks.jpg</image> |
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| <email>Ed.Merks@gmail.com</email> |
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| <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[ |
| Eclipse Modeling Project Lead<br> |
| Eclipse Modeling Framework Project Lead |
| ]]> </eclipse_affiliation> |
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| <vision> <![CDATA[ |
| <p>Eclipse has evolved over the years to become something quite different from its inception. Today |
| it's driven by a vastly more diverse constellation of contributors: large and small commercial |
| interests, educational institutions, and of course an ever growing dedicated committer community, |
| i.e., people like you and me. With this increasing diversity, our influence as individuals grows |
| unabated, presenting new challenges and exciting opportunities. As your committer representative |
| on the board, I will employ my five years of experience to continue promoting the rights and |
| privileges of committers and to fight for the issues and concerns near and dear to developers' |
| hearts. As always, I intend to be a visible and approachable technical representative, who |
| navigates the political landscape on your behalf. I feel I've demonstrated this with my track |
| record over the years.</p> |
| <p>No doubt it sounds cliche, but I believe strongly that helping 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 is demonstrated with deeds not merely with words. I |
| believe in being a positive influence, of 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 that was <a href="http://eclipse.org/membership/vote2011/">approved |
| by the membership</a> last year. Not everyone agrees |
| this is an improvement, but I'm quite sure the vast majority of the committers will feel their vote |
| this year is more influential than ever.</p> |
| <p>I will continue to work hard to ensure that Eclipse's processes are the best they can be and are |
| ever improving. I believe in minimal processes that focus on best practices and achievable |
| realistic 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. 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.</p> |
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| ]]> </vision> |
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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 five years and has been recognized by the Eclipse Community Awards as |
| Top New Comer Evangelist, Top Ambassador, and Top Committer. Ed is well known for his dedication to the |
| Eclipse community, 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. His |
| experience in modeling technology spans twenty-seven years. |
| ]]> </bio> |
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| <affiliation> <![CDATA[ |
| <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 |
| ]]> |
| </affiliation> |
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| </boardmember> |