I would like to extend my board membership at least for one year to finish the work I have started. In the first line that is a successfully Joomla! World Conference and more support and visibility for Joomla! events. Furthermore I think we should extend our attendance on open source conferences or conferences where we can spread the word about the CMS we all love so much.
> hi all
> I've given the matter a lot of thought, and consulted with a number of people who's opinions I value and trust.
> I believe I still have a contribution to make to the Open Source Matters (OSM) board, and the Joomla! Project.
> Should the board and the Community Oversight Committee agree, I make myself available to continue serving on the OSM board.
> The tasks I would like to help complete are:
> - The full implementation of the new Helpdesk software, and integration with other teams TM support requests.
> - Expanding the Trademark team to divide responsibilities.
> - Helping with the Trademark policy review, and implementation of any resulting changes.
> - Restructuring of our Trademark information to be more friendly and easy to understand.
> - Supporting Internationalization with a new OSM web site, and other initiatives.
> - Playing a supportive role in reaching the major goals that the OSM board decides on for this year.
> I make myself available, knowing that future restructuring of the Joomla! Project Leadership (that would include OSM), may impact the length of my term as Director of the board.
> regards,
> Jacques Rentzke
> Secretary of the Board
> Open Source Matters, Inc.
> On 2012/01/12 06:20 PM, Javier Gomez wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> As you might now my main aim being part of this board has been to work
>> in the inclusion and integration of the non-English-native-speakers
>> community into the project. Mainly because there are amazing
>> developers, testers, designers... out there. I will love to see all of
>> them finding easy mechanisms to participate in the global project.
>> In this two years being an active part of the Joomla project I have seen
>> with pleasure:
>> * Growing Joomla User Groups all over the world:
>> http://community.joomla.org/user-groups.html.
>> * More non-native English speakers joining the working teams.
>> * Improving our transparency and communications with the community.
>> And improving the way we listen the community feedback.
>> * The multilingual feature in the core of the CMS:
>> http://magazine.joomla.org/issues/Issue-Nov-2011/item/593-Build-a-Mul...
>> * Joomla!Days and Joomla! events everywhere.
>> * and many many others successes.
>> Of course those are not my successes, those are successes of the entire
>> community. But I feel part of them with my one's bit.
>> There is always people that say that we are doing bad. But in my
>> oppinion Joomla! has been always a project where you can participate and
>> share your opinions. I invite those people that think: "we should change
>> the way we do something" to join the working teams and make it happen.
>> Anyway I have heard a lot of demands from the community that we really
>> have to work on them. And we will, but at this very moment and thinking
>> in this two years in OSM I feel very proud of the work that this board
>> have done. And also for the work done of the entire leadership team. And
>> also for the work done of every working team. And of course the work
>> done of this amazing community.
>> I think we did a great job but I'm sure we can do it better. This is why
>> I want to communicate that I would like to extend my board membership. I
>> have the time and the desire to continue my volunteer work serving this
>> board.
>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Alice Grevet
>> <alice.gre...@opensourcematters.org
>> <mailto:alice.gre...@opensourcematters.org>> wrote:
>> Dear OSM Members,
>> To get the ball rolling on the upcoming election process, this email
>> aims to explore with those OSM members whose terms are ending in a
>> few weeks, the subject of term extensions. Reading this page may be
>> helpful for some information on the nominations process:
>> http://community.joomla.org/blogs/leadership/1331-osm-nomination-and-...
>> The members with terms ending soon are: Jacques, Robert, Ryan,
>> Javier and James.
>> If your term is ending, and you feel that you have unfinished goals
>> and a contribution to make for which you have unique skills, and
>> extending your term for another year would allow you to complete
>> those goals effectively, please respond to this thread with a brief
>> outline of your vision.
>> A proposed timeline for this and the following steps of the election
>> process could look like this:
>> 1) Determination of renewal or extension of any terms (to be
>> finalized prior to Feb. Board meeting)
>> 2) OSM requests via motion that the COC extend those terms
>> 3) Board officer elections (at the February board meeting)
>> 4) General OSM Board elections in April, according to this draft
>> election process:
>> http://community.joomla.org/blogs/leadership/1331-osm-nomination-and-...
>> Best regards,
>> Alice Grevet
>> OSM Asst. Secretary
>> --
>> Javier Gomez
>> OpenSourceMatters
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