[kepler-dev] [VOTE] membership for Rod Spears from SEEK

[Matt Jones]

Dear All,

While we're voting, I would like to nominate Rod Spears for membership
into the Kepler Project. Rod has contributed the design and
implementation of the GUI query builder, which we hope to use as part of
a general data query mechanism within Kepler. Jing Tao has been doing
checkins for Rod's current contributions. The dataquery package
initially targets access to EcoGrid data from the SEEK project, but we
are hoping that it is general enough to be useful for other formal data
grids (e.g., GEON Grid) and informal data sources (e.g., jdbc). Rod has
also contributed significantly to project discussions regarding the
build system, documentation, usability, and coding style. Rod is working
for the SEEK project as a full time developer based at the University of
Kansas. We expect him to continue contributions to Kepler over the next
several years of SEEK.

Please respond to the list (kepler-dev at ecoinformatics.org) by Friday 
September 17th with any commentary and a vote as follows:

      * Approve - Rod should BECOME A KEPLER VOTING MEMBER
      * Neutral  -- NO OPINION
      * Disapprove - Rod should NOT BECOME A KEPLER VOTING MEMBER*.

*Note that a vote of Disapprove is a veto which guarantees failure of
the vote, so if you vote Disapprove, please provide a reason for doing 
so. If we don't get at least 2/3 of the members casting a vote, we 
should probably ask for another vote or say that this vote has failed.

If you have any questions about this process, please refer to: 
(http://kepler-project.org/management.html). Note that only current 
contributing members of the project can vote 
(http://kepler-project.org/members.html), but we welcome opinions from 
other members of the list as well.

Sincerely,

Matt

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