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

[Jing Tao]

Approve.

Jing

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Matt Jones wrote:

> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 13:28:56 -0800
> From: Matt Jones <jones at nceas.ucsb.edu>
> Reply-To: Kepler-Dev <kepler-dev at ecoinformatics.org>
> To: Kepler-Dev <kepler-dev at ecoinformatics.org>
> Subject: [kepler-dev] [VOTE] membership for Rod Spears from SEEK
> 
> 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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Jing Tao
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