Re: Get to Know Some Governance Board Candidates

It's a great idea to ask the candidates but nbdiscuss@ isn't the most
visible of all places. The election (and these responses) should be on the
netbeans.org front-page.

BTW, I'm not entirely certain the candidates list has become official yet so
this might be a bit premature. For example, I've recently also been
nominated but Tinuola has yet to contact me for a confirmation, etc.

I agree that answers to questions submitted by the community should be part
of the next election process. This also means introducing a gap between the
moment the candidates list becomes official and voting begins in order to
give candidates time to answer.

--emi

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 6:27 AM, Tom Wheeler <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm pleased to see so many qualified candidates nominated for the
> NetBeans Governance Board.
>
> As someone who has voted in these elections for several years, I've
> always found it difficult to choose the one who'd do the best job
> representing the community.  There are so many mailing lists, projects
> and other ways to participate in NetBeans I don't always have the
> opportunity to get to know the candidates and learn how they view the
> NetBeans project and its governance.
>
> I imagine others feel the same way, so I decided to host a debate for
> the candidates.  It turns out that this wasn't practical for a number
> of reasons; for example, the NetBeans community is global and finding
> a convenient time when everyone could meet is always a challenge.  I
> decided instead to do this by e-mail -- to ensure a level playing
> field, I e-mailed each candidate the same list of questions at exactly
> the same time and asked them to respond by the same deadline.  I
> explained that I would collate these responses and post them to the
> nbdiscuss list.
>
> Although only three of the nominees provided responses to these
> questions, I want to add that I probably asked for the unreasonable.
> There's very little time between when nominations end and voting
> begins, and it's made far shorter when this coincides with the JavaOne
> conference currently underway.  Many of the nominees are at the
> conference, having traveled halfway around the world.  Therefore, I
> recommend that you keep this in mind and view it as a positive sign if
> a candidate responded rather than a negative sign if they did not.
>
> I have added an item to the agenda of the next Governance Board
> meeting to make a similar debate (with questions submitted by the
> community) a regular part of the election process; I'd appreciate
> knowing whether you support this.
>
> I'd again like to thank those who participated and wish the very best
> to all our Governance Board candidates.
>
> Tom Wheeler
> NetBeans Community Member / Outgoing Governance Board
>
>
> And now, here are the responses, included in the order in which they
> were received.  The content is unedited, with one exception.  For the
> sake of clarity, I added last names (in square brackets) for people
> Tushar Joshi referenced only by first name in his response.
>
>
>
> Zoran Severac
> ------------------------------------------------------
> 1)  What do you think is the most important issue the Governance Board
>    can solve during your term and what will you do to solve it?
>
>  Probably not the most important, but the one I see at the
>  moment is the wider adoption of the NetBeans IDE and NetBeans
>  Platform among the academic community. In a long term that
>  would also support wider adoption in industry, and community
>  growth. To accomplish that I would help to:
>
>   1. Establish training programme for university teachers
>
>   2. Create training materials that can be included as the
>      part of university courses.
>
> 2)  As NetBeans is an open source project, its users have an
>    obligation to help make it better.  What is your plan to get
>    the community more involved in contributing to NetBeans?`
>
>  Establish collaboration programme with other open source
>  projects, and stimulate them to use NetBeans Platform/IDE
>  for their development.
>
>  By contributing to NetBeans, they will be contributing to
>  their own projects.
>
>
> 3)  The NetBeans project does not have a mission statement.
>    Do you think it should, and if so, what should it be?
>
>  Yes I think it should have a mission statement, something
>  like: to provide a better user experience for Java development.
>
>
>
> Tushar Joshi
> ------------------------------------------------------
> 1)  What do you think is the most important issue the Governance Board
>    can solve during your term and what will you do to solve it?
>
>  I would like to keep following the infrastructural issues
>  faced by NetBeans project.  Especially the mirror servers
>  issue which was raised by Tom [Wheeler].  Establishing a
>  mission statement and spreading it to the community will
>  also be one of my goals in this term.
>
>  I am more focused on the NetBeans Platform and will try to
>  include one agenda item to make PlatformX happen in the
>  community.  This may need to gather like minded people
>  for PlatformX make more noise in the mailing list about
>  what PlatformX is and how we can take it further.
>
>
> 2)  As NetBeans is an open source project, its users have an
>    obligation to help make it better.  What is your plan to
>    get the community more involved in contributing to NetBeans?
>
>  I liked the First_Patch program and I believe we should
>  continue this program to induct more and more developers
>  into the patch creation process.  I would like to keep
>  that program continuing, with the help of Tom [Wheeler].
>  This is a good way to involve the community in contributing
>  to NetBeans.  I would like to propose some programs which
>  will motivate more bloggers to write about the NetBeans IDE
>  and platform to spread the awareness of this fantastic tool.
>
>
> 3)  The NetBeans project does not have a mission statement.
>    Do you think it should, and if so, what should it be?
>
>  I feel NetBeans project shall have a mission statement. I
>  agree with Tom [Wheeler] and Fabrizio [Giudici] to have
>  Open Source mentioned in the mission statement.  If that
>  word sounds like strategy as Ashwin [Rao] said, I will
>  say we can write some statement which will look like
>  goals but still have open source concept in it.
>
>  I value the openness of the project and believe that
>  the community should be stronger to maintain a paraller
>  versions, say PlatformX of NetBeans just to become more
>  involved into the project.  This will also provide a
>  fall back plan if some deviation or re-prioritisation
>  happen in the major goals of the project.
>
>  I will like to see more community groups managing the
>  dropped parts of the IDE, like Ruby, Python.
>
>
>
>
>
> Sven Reimers
> ------------------------------------------------------
> 1)  What do you think is the most important issue the Governance Board
>    can solve during your term and what will you do to solve it?
>
>  Further enhance community participtation
>
>
> 2)  As NetBeans is an open source project, its users have an
>    obligation to help make it better.  What is your plan to
>    get the community more involved in contributing to NetBeans?
>
>  Make it more visible that being part of the community and
>  helping NetBeans is simple and does not to be a time consuming
>  task. I will try to enhance on building the NetBeans Community
>  on java.net as a community hub for all people being active in
>  making NetBeans a better IDE.
>
>
> 3)  The NetBeans project does not have a mission statement.
>    Do you think it should, and if so, what should it be?
>
>  Well, first I think we have to (re)define what a mission
>  statement is.  Probably we can just enhance on what
>  already exists...
>
>
>
> --
> Tom Wheeler
> http://www.tomwheeler.com/
>



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