| <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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| <phone>+49 160 1291063</phone> |
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| <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[ |
| Eclipse Modeling Project Lead<br> |
| Eclipse Modeling Framework Project Lead<br> |
| XML Schema Definition Project Lead<br> |
| Oomph Project Committer<br> |
| Platform Project Committer |
| ]]> </eclipse_affiliation> |
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| <vision> <![CDATA[ |
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| <p> |
| What is Eclipse? |
| That was an easy question to answer back in the early days: Eclipse is a highly-extensible, desktop |
| IDE framework implemented in Java using native widgets. |
| Clearly Eclipse has evolved and diversified. |
| The Eclipse Foundation was formed to manage this technology, but it too has evolved and diversified. |
| The Eclipse Foundation has in fact been transformed and is reborn to be so much more than it was in the past. |
| The arrival of Jakarta has been like a revival. |
| Now the answer to this simple question is far from clear. |
| Is Eclipse a floor wax or a dessert topping? |
| Is it a Foundation, a Project, or a Java IDE? |
| It is of course all those things, but not merely these things. |
| For me personally, Eclipse is the world's biggest and best open-source Modeling community. |
| But in the end, for each of us committers, Eclipse is something quite different, and we each |
| personally help to make Eclipse what we collectively want it to be and to become. |
| </p> |
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| <p> |
| This election is about how you as a committer are represented on the Eclipse Foundation's Board of Directors. |
| The board is relatively small today, so each and every representative has significant influence. |
| As your committer representative on the board, I will employ my twelve years of experience to promote the interests of committers, |
| and to help the Eclipse Foundation evolve into something even greater. |
| The Eclipse Foundation needs to continue its growth beyond its early role as the manager of the Eclipse Project. |
| The inclusion of Jakarta has brought many new challenges and has changed the face of the board. |
| My role is not only to represent committers, but to ensure the Eclipse Foundation's success, growth, and long-term viability. |
| I will strive 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, living in Berlin and having learned Deutsch, |
| leading Eclipse's Modeling Project, |
| sensitizes me to the fact that great communities span cultural, technical, and linguistic boundaries. |
| </p> |
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| <p> |
| Cliche as it may sound, I believe strongly that helping is its own reward. |
| I answer questions daily on a broad range of forums, not just those for my own projects, |
| I fix Bugzillas quickly for the users of my software, |
| and I develop cool new features and improve performance whenever possible. |
| I endeavor to contribute constructively on the mailing list. |
| I am particularly proud of the |
| <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_Oomph_Installer" target="_blank">Oomph |
| technology</a> Eike Stepper and I have been working on to help ease the |
| installation and configuration of development IDEs. |
| I am deeply honored to have received Eclipse's |
| <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20120326_awardwinners.php" |
| target="_blank">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. |
| </p> |
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| <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, pragmatic results. |
| For example, do we really need to list each contributor in each and every file to which they have contributed? No, |
| this is tracked by Git commits. |
| Can we increase the CQ threshold for contributions from 250 lines to 10,000? No, but we can increase it to 1000. |
| Life is compromise. |
| 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 twelve 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, having posted close to 30,000 forum answers. 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 has learned to speak German. His |
| experience in modeling technology spans more than thirty 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> |