Hello Kenn,
Ed Merks has nominated you to join the
Eclipse Architecture Council in recognition of your achievements for the Eclipse
Community. The Council and Mike Milinkovich
have actually approved this nomination back in March already (and we talked
briefly at EclipseCon), and I'm sorry for not having sent you the official
invitation letter earlier. As per the Eclipse Development Process
[1], your
nomination is a highly visible confirmation of the Eclipse community's respect
for your technical vision, good judgement, software development skills, past and
future contributions to Eclipse. It is a role that should be neither given nor
taken lightly. Some track record of your
nomination advocates is still attached below.
I'm sending this E-Mail to you in order
to actually confirm that you're ready to take on that new role. Being on the
Architecture Council does not come for free: we do expect our members to be
actively involved in the Council's work. We'd appreciate if you can join the
monthly 1-hour phone meetings, but being responsive to the council's business in
terms of E-Mail discussions is just as important. Given that only AC members can
serve as official Mentors for projects, we also expect you to be ready to serve
as a Mentor, be open-eyed to interesting things going on in your domain and
bring them to the Council's attention. Only pro-active members bring real value
to our cross-functional body.
Over all, an investment of 3 hours each
month for AC business should be the minimum expectation (1 hour for the phone
call, plus 2 hours for E-Mail business). What you get in return, is getting in
touch with some of the most prominent leaders in our Community, first-hand
information and a good chance to actually change things that bother you.
See the Architecture Council Wiki pages [2] for more information. If you have any questions, or find
those pages unclear, just drop me an E-Mail or file a bug [3] against the AC component. As a new member, you have the
unique opportunity to see things like a newcomer, and thus point out things on
the website that need improvement; Existing bug 250348 [4] already mentions some items that should help newcomers get started.
I'd appreciate getting you on board.
Let me know what you think!
[1] http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/development_process.php#4_8_Councils
[2] http://wiki.eclipse.org/Architecture_Council
[3] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/enter_bug.cgi?product=Community&component=Architecture%20Council
[4] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=250348
Thanks,
Martin