Re: My list of nominees

On Jun 3, 2009, at 6:45 AM, David Coallier wrote:

Here's my list of people I would love to nominate for this and next year's PEAR group (In no particular order) before we announce a full list of participants: - Ken Guest - Travis Swicegood - Mathieu Gauthier - Christian Weiske - Daniel O'Connor - Helgi Thormar - Joe Stump - Chuck Burgess I know that's more than 7 but a fierce battle could be interesting :) By Sunday I'll try and announce who accepted their nominations and who is going to be running. If you have anyone else, go go go ! :)

I'll throw my hat into the ring as well.. A little about me for anyone interested... As a PEAR developer, I'm a lead on 5 packages. As a lead developer at Digg, I've been an advocate of getting more of our internal code released through PEAR. We have several packages coming up in the future, including a new OpenID package (for our upcoming relying party support), Services_Solr (which we use for digg's search), and a few others. We have a vested interest in PEAR, and I'd like to do what I can to help move it forward. Some of the things that most interest me, and which I would be happy to help contribute to are: * Help drive a new website design, and possibly get some design support from Digg * Make it easier to participate in PEAR (help fix PEPr problems, work more with new developers, etc) * Help out with the Chiara PEAR server (we've had a number of issues with it, and I have some ideas for improving it) * Encourage more people to distribute applications through their own channels * Make PEAR easier to use for private distribution * Help developers write better tests (I'd be happy to contribute documentation on this) If anyone would like any further information, feel free to contact me. Cheers, Bill Shupp