CFV: Group Proposal: Adoption

[Georges Saab]

vote: yes


On Dec 11, 2013, at 5:51 PM, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:

> Governing Board Members,
> 
> On behalf of Dalibor Topic I hereby propose the creation of the Adoption
> Group, with Dalibor as the initial Lead.
> 
> Background on this proposal is available in the attached message and in
> Dalibor's earlier message to the discuss list [1].
> 
> Only current Governing Board Members [2] are eligible to vote on this
> motion.  Votes must be cast in the open by replying to this mailing
> list.
> 
> For Simple Majority voting instructions, see [3].
> 
> Votes are due by 16:00 UTC on Thursday, 19 December [4].
> 
> - Mark
> 
> 
> [1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2013-December/003233.html
> [2] http://openjdk.java.net/census#gb
> [3] http://openjdk.java.net/groups/#new-group-vote
> [4] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=OpenJDK+GB+CFV:+Group+Proposal:+Adoption&iso=20131219T1600
> 
> 
> From: Dalibor Topic <dalibor.topic at oracle.com>
> Subject: Group Proposal: Adoption
> Date: December 11, 2013 at 12:34:54 PM PST
> To: Mark Reinhold <mark.reinhold at oracle.com>
> 
> 
> Hi Mark,
> 
> in your role as OpenJDK Lead, I would like to request a combined motion to
> the Governing Board to create the Adoption Group and appoint myself as its 
> initial Lead.
> 
> The Adoption Group would bundle and aid efforts to collaborate on OpenJDK 
> Projects, lower the barriers to contribution, and bring JDK development 
> into the heart of the Java community.
> 
> Dalibor Topic lives in Hamburg, Germany, and works as Principal Product 
> Manager for Oracle. He is an OpenJDK Member, Group Lead for the Porters 
> Group, and Project Lead for the JDK 7 Updates Project in the OpenJDK 
> Community.
> 
> For the initial Group Members I would like to suggest:
> 
> * Martijn Verburg
> * Steve Poole
> * Rory O'Donnel
> * Daniel Bryant
> * Mani Sarkar
> * Edward Yue Shung Wong
> * Mario Torre
> * Ben Evans
> 
> cheers,
> dalibor topic
> 
> 
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