[eml-dev] Proposing new project members

[Matt Jones]

I agree -- they've made great contributions and would be good project
members if they are willing.  Approved.  We need to hear from the rest
of the eml-dev members.  The count so far is below.

Matt

Chad Berkley 	
Matthew Brooke 	
James Brunt 	  approve
Scott Chapal 	
Corinna Gries 	
Daniel Higgins 	  approve
Matthew Jones 	  approve
Chris Jones 	
Peter McCartney 	
Ken Ramsey 	
Mark Schildhauer


Past members (not expected to vote)
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Tim Bergsma  	
David Blankman 	

James W Brunt wrote:
> As I promised at the LTER 2005 IM meeting, in the interest of increasing 
> community involvement in EML, I would like to propose the addition of 2 
> new EML project members for their contributions and continued interest 
> in the successful deployment of EML into the community. (Additionally, 
> I think they should receive the full salary and benefits to which they 
> are entitled in this position immediately instead of waiting the usual 
> probation period.) They are:
> 
> Margaret O'Brien - University of California Santa Barbara - Margaret is 
> the information manager for the Santa Barbara Coastal LTER project and 
> the acting information manager for the Moorea Coral Reef LTER project. 
> Margaret has a good knowledge of eml from the implementors point of view 
> - Margaret is actively using EML and Metacat to manage the projects data 
> holdings and has worked on the LTER eml best practices project. Margaret 
> recently worked with Mark Servilla in developing the schema for the 
> proposed changes to eml-literature.
> 
> Mark Servilla - University of New Mexico - Mark is the lead scientist on 
> the LTER Network Information System project at the LTER Network Office 
> at UNM. Mark has a good understanding of eml from the developers point 
> of view - he has implemented eml for the LTER remotely-sensed data, 
> recently developed an eml unit-dictionary online resource and worked 
> with Margaret O'Brien on the proposed changes to the eml-literature schema.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> James
>