Re: GDP coordination

[Eric Baudais <baudais kkpsi org>]

Dan-

Thanks for all the hard work you have done with GNOME 1.4 and the build
up to GNOME 2.  I don't think we would've had a clear plan from the
beginning without your guidance. I also hope you hop on IRC some time.

Do we ever do a formal vote?  It is more the person who just decides to
take over and be a liason between all the different projects.  I think
that John Fleck fits perfectly into this role.  He has in fact been
doing exactly this for a while now.  I think that John will continue to
do a good job after GNOME 2 and into GNOME 3.

Eric Baudais

On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 22:27, Dan Mueth wrote:
> 
> Fellow GDPers,
> 
> I have enjoyed my work in the GDP over the last few years tremendously.  
> I originally joined the GDP to contribute to GNOME in the simplest way I
> could and in the area that seemed to have the greatest need, although I
> did not originally expect documentation work to be very stimulating or
> exciting.  What I found instead was the opposite: a vibrant GNOME
> community in GNOME, and especially in the GDP, working toward very
> challenging goals.  Fortunately, my graduate student lifestyle and work at
> Eazel allowed me to spend a lot of time working with other GDPers on GNOME
> documentation and help issues.
> 
> Unfortunately, my current professional and personal constraints do not
> leave much time for GNOME.  I see many others in the GDP community who are
> full of enthusiasm and working very hard to make the GNOME help system and
> documentation as good as possible.  I feel it is time for me to step down
> as coordinator so that somebody who can put much more into the job can
> take over.
> 
> One person who has shown that he has an unrelenting drive for all things
> related to the GDP is John Fleck.  I feel that, in many ways, he has
> already replaced me.  He has taken an active hands-on role in almost
> everything related to the GDP, from hacking and making sure all the
> modules build docs correctly, to serving on the GNOME release committee
> and acting as a liason with the Sun documentation team. I am confident
> John would make an excellent coordinator.
> 
> There are others in the GDP who have made countless and valuable
> contributions who would also make very good coordinators.
> 
> I hope that this email will start a discussion out of which we can
> indentify a new GDP coordinator.
> 
> -Dan
> 
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