-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Suresh is the natural choice for chair, both from his experience with the software going back many years and his leadership within the Airavata incubator. I'm grateful for the consideration, however.
Marlon On 8/1/12 3:19 PM, Suresh Marru wrote: > Great to see the graduation discussion come by and certainly agree > with you that Airavata headed in the right direction within the > last year. Thanks to the great Mentors Airavata was blessed with > and the veteran commiters (Chathura Herath, Srinath Perera, Eran > Chinthaka, Thilina Gunarathne among others) playing a key role as > secondary mentors in guiding the project. Full credit to the > Airavata community for really grasping the apache way in no time, > Bingo!! > > Hi Chris, > > As for the chair, I am certainly humbled for your mention, and a > big thank you. I did not put a whole lot of thought into it, but I > am seriously neutral. In addition to the responsibilities you > mention, I have seen Matt Franklin do a great job in showing Chair > duties by practice in Rave in terms of over all direction, taking > the lead on branding and other graduation responsibilities. For > Airavata a good additional task will be to ensure third party > dependencies are minimized and use the sustainable dependencies and > trim of any legacy ones. > > Looking forward for the project to graduate and march ahead, > > Suresh > > On Aug 1, 2012, at 1:54 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) wrote: > >> Hey Guys, >> >> Airavata has just made its 0.4 release, the project has added a >> bunch of new contributors, all discussion has been on list, the >> licenses for the software are ALv2 and compatible and everyone >> around here seems to "get it". >> >> Time to graduate in my opinion. So, the next question is, who's >> the chair. Suresh and/or Marlon have my VOTE. Since Suresh is >> already an ASF member, it might be good to give Marlon a shot at >> it that way he gets the broader Foundation perspective and view, >> but I think Suresh has done a lot more of the dev wrangling and >> leadership. >> >> Either one would make a fine chair IMHO. BTW, the role of the >> chair is to provide reports on the status of the project to the >> board, and be the "eyes and ears of the board" on the project. >> So, it's not a glamorous job by any means, but it does carry with >> it certain responsibilities that I think either one of them can >> fill. >> >> OK, once we decide on the chair, (let's discuss it here), then >> I'll draft a board resolution and then we can call a VOTE. Great >> work to get here guys. You're almost there. >> >> Cheers, Chris >> >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> >> Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. >> Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory >> Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: >> [email protected] WWW: >> http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> >> Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department >> University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJQGntIAAoJEEfVXEODPFID0w8IAJTck+MY/Tq6ztk2fhgkfdSc vNhUcx1zGmYLTR5EiocVjBGSkWRNCmodR0mXrGvlRH0jlymw6iQYnfGQRPL99DEg c0RSMKvpJ57XPYJwqWr3Wu7lZpbChzw1GFrjv5BHrWPV63beMnMCyTHRGhZl810m P0Jj5TqwhX2b+y8ceWC/POjhlo5Um8JBX7sYyo6YfW68JIMTLMDP9Uo+kP321uBw Z55xEfgrgcz1ujyXBEFNE/wdyJO0x9pBk0WIykFUPiQgUZo6Zh1Jn6DfAbR+0nxh rvwdLJccwFkFeLMzA98jc28DxJh5zcx3TQrneA39Z0Inq47m88Hfn/wieN8HufA= =3aoS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
