Coordination Committee Election
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Thomas Robitaille
Aug 13, 2021, 7:31:09 PM8/13/21
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Hi everyone,
I have been one of the coordinators of the project for just over ten years now, and it has been an honour to be able to serve the project in this way. I volunteered for the role during my first postdoc when I was still a researcher and at the time did not imagine that the project would become as successful as it is today, nor that it would play a large part in changing my career path and lead me to focus on open source software development instead of research - in big part because I enjoy so much interacting with such a talented, dynamic and positive community.
After ten years, I feel that the time is right for me to step down from the coordination committee and I will therefore not stand in the current election. To be clear, I am not reducing my involvement in the project - instead I plan to concentrate my time on my other roles and on other parts of the project that I am passionate about, including the core and coordinated packages, infrastructure and releasing, and setting up a mentoring scheme to train new maintainers.
If being on the coordination committee is something you think you might be interested in, I would like to encourage you to seriously consider standing in the election, and not to dismiss the idea because you think you might not be suited for any reason (in particular, don't feel that you are not at the right career stage for this - we need a diversity of career stages represented on the CoCo). If you want to stand and no one has nominated you, please just self-nominate - don't wait for someone to nominate you.
I have been one of the coordinators of the project for just over ten years now, and it has been an honour to be able to serve the project in this way. I volunteered for the role during my first postdoc when I was still a researcher and at the time did not imagine that the project would become as successful as it is today, nor that it would play a large part in changing my career path and lead me to focus on open source software development instead of research - in big part because I enjoy so much interacting with such a talented, dynamic and positive community.
After ten years, I feel that the time is right for me to step down from the coordination committee and I will therefore not stand in the current election. To be clear, I am not reducing my involvement in the project - instead I plan to concentrate my time on my other roles and on other parts of the project that I am passionate about, including the core and coordinated packages, infrastructure and releasing, and setting up a mentoring scheme to train new maintainers.
If being on the coordination committee is something you think you might be interested in, I would like to encourage you to seriously consider standing in the election, and not to dismiss the idea because you think you might not be suited for any reason (in particular, don't feel that you are not at the right career stage for this - we need a diversity of career stages represented on the CoCo). If you want to stand and no one has nominated you, please just self-nominate - don't wait for someone to nominate you.
I know time is short before the deadline, but if anyone has any questions about what being on the CoCo involves in practice, please feel free to send me a DM on Slack or an email and I'll be happy to help!
Cheers,
Tom
Cheers,
Tom
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