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

[xiaowen]

Approve.

Xiaowen

On Sep 13, 2004, at 2:28 PM, Matt Jones wrote:

> 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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