2006 Steering Committee Nominations
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The election has already happened. Results can be found at 2006 Steering Committee Results.
Introduction
This page holds the nominees for the 2006 Steering Committee Election. For everyone's convenience, this page also contains a voting template which Members can copy/paste into an email and then modify.
NOMINATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED !!!
DO NOT ADD ANY MORE NOMINATIONS! The nomination deadline (Friday, Sept. 29) has now passed for the 2006 Steering Committee election. Any nominations added after the deadline are invalid and will be removed from the wiki page. Congratulations and thanks to the 11 nominees that were nominated before the nomination deadline.
Voting Template
To vote, you must send email to [1]. To make sure your vote is properly cast, we strongly recommend that you copy/paste the following into an email that you then send to [2]. We also strongly recommend that you cc: mailto:jferrai@us.ibm.com on your voting mail message as a backup to guard against the (unlikely) chance that Yahoo! servers have problems.
With this email, I am delivering the official vote on behalf of my organization for the 2006 Steering Committee election for the OpenAjax Alliance. I understand that my organization must be a Member of the OpenAjax Alliance (as defined by the Members Agreement) in order for this vote to be counted. I recognize that I must be the Primary Contact for my organization, or a substitute already identified by our Primary Contact via email to openajax_election@yahoogroups.com, in order for this vote to be counted.
I understand that the order in which I list the nominees plays an important role in the process for determining the winners of the election. (Documented at: http://www.openajaxalliance.org/member/wiki/index.php?title=2006_Steering_Committee_Election.)
The following contains my organization's vote for the OpenAjax Alliance Steering Committee. The nominees are listed in ranked order of preference, with my top preference listed first:
<insert an ORDERED list of nominees here via copy/paste/reorder from list of nominees in next section>
List of Nominees to Copy/Paste/Reorder Into the Voting Template
The following is the list of nominees, where the nominees are listed one-per-line in a format suitable for inclusion within the email which contains your official vote. The list below is shown in alphabetical order by company name. IT IS CRITICAL THAT YOU RE-ORDER THIS LIST IN RANKED PREFERENCE ORDER (TOP PREFERENCE FIRST) BEFORE SENDING THE EMAIL. We do not want the Steering Committee to be chosen by the alphabetic order of the nominee's company names.
DOJO/Alex Russell ECLIPSE/Mike Milinkovich IBM/David Boloker ILOG/Erwan Paccard LASZLO/John Janetos NEXAWEB/Coach Wei OPENWAVE/Christian Sejersen SAP/Michael Bechauf TIBCO/Kevin Hakman ZEND/Michael Pinette ZIMBRA/Scott Dietzen
Ultimately, we are voting for companies, not people
Although the names of people are listed, at the end of the day, you are voting for companies to have a seat on the Steering Committees, not voting for particular people to have a seat on the Steering Committee. The Steering Committee thus consists of 7 different Members, where each Member identifies one of their representatives as their primary representative on the Steering Committee, but they can replace that representative at any time or designate a substitute to attend a particular Steering Committee meeting.
Deadline: September 29, midnight (US-Pacific)
Nominations close on September 29, 2006, midnight (US-Pacific). All nominees added after that date/time will be considered invalid nominees. Any votes cast for that nominee will not be counted.
Details on Current Nominees
Nominee: DOJO/Alex Russell
- Organization name: Dojo Foundation
- Person who will serve on Steering Committee: Alex Russell
(Optional) Short description of Alex's organization's Ajax activities and commitment to open technologies, such as open source
The Dojo Foundation is a non-profit which hosts the Dojo Toolkit and other projects, all of which seek to improve the web through Javascript and other techniques which form a strong foundation for Ajax. The Foundation has a firm commitment to Open Source as well as a healthy attitude to collaborate and interoperate other Open Source projects.
Nominee: ECLIPSE/Mike Milinkovich
- Organization name: Eclipse Foundation
- Person who will serve on Steering Committee: Mike Milinkovich
(Optional) Short description of Mike's organization's Ajax activities and commitment to open technologies, such as open source
Eclipse is hosting the Ajax Toolkit Framework (ATF) & Rich Ajax Platform (RAP) as important Ajax open source projects. As Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation, Mike has experience in running a membership-driven open source organization, which can be useful experience building up the OpenAjax organization.
Nominee: IBM/David Boloker
- Organization name: IBM Corporation
- Person who will serve on Steering Committee: David Boloker
(Optional) Short description of my organization's Ajax activities and commitment to open technologies, such as open source
IBM has been very active in Web Browser and AJAX space from both the technology and industry areas. We have worked and are still working on bringing industry focus to Ajax via OpenAjax Alliance in both the Desktop and Mobile environments. In addition to our work across the industry, we have engineers working across OpenSource on tooling in Eclipse, Firefox enhancements in Mozilla, Ajax runtimes in Dojo Toolkit and serverside projects in Apache.
Nominee: ILOG/Erwan Paccard
- Organization name: ILOG
- Person who will serve on Steering Committee: Erwan Paccard
(Optional) Short description of my organization's Ajax activities and commitment to open technologies, such as open source
ILOG can bring a complementary viewpoint to the community and is committed to promoting interoperability. We need it since our offering covers only advanced visuals, all of our customers need to complement the JViews offering with additional AJAX toolkits. So,the more interoperability and openness the better to us and the community.
Nominee: LASZLO/John Janetos
- Organization name: Laszlo Systems, Inc.
- Person who will serve on Steering Committee: John Janetos
(Optional) Short description of my organization's Ajax activities and commitment to open technologies, such as open source
Laszlo Systems is the original developer of the open source platform, OpenLaszlo, a framework for developing AJAX applications and a founding member of the Open Ajax Alliance. Laszlo is committed to promoting open AJAX platforms and open source as well as ensuring interoperability among AJAX toolkits. Laszlo has been an active contributor to a variety of open source projects including Eclipse and Dojo. OpenLaszlo technology has been widely adopted by application and service providers in the consumer, enterprise, telecom, education, and government markets.
Nominee: NEXAWEB/Coach Wei
- Organization name: Nexaweb Technologies, Inc.
- Person who will serve on Steering Committee: Coach Wei
(Optional) Short description of my organization's Ajax activities and commitment to open technologies, such as open source
NEXAWEB has been actively collaborating with members in contributing to OpenAjax, such as drafting OpenAjax Hub specification with IBM and Dojo, contributing markup scanning code to OpenAjax hub, participating the OpenAjax open source project, as well as PR/marketing activities. In addition, Nexaweb is a member of Eclipse Foundation and seeded the Apache XAP project that leverages Ajax toolkits such as Dojo and Zimbra Kabuki. Nexaweb is committed to work with members to bring the vision of OpenAjax to reality.
Nominee: OPENWAVE/Christian Sejersen
- Organization name: Openwave Systems Inc.
- Person who will serve on Steering Committee: Christian Sejersen
(Optional) Short description of my organization's Ajax activities and commitment to open technologies, such as open source
Openwave has been in a leadership role in development of open standards, such as WAP, since its inception in 1995. Openwave is a founding member of the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) and the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG). Through its experience with mobile data services, Openwave can help OpenAjax achieve its mission.
Nominee: SAP/Michael Bechauf
- Organization name: SAP AG
- Person who will serve on Steering Committee: Michael Bechauf
(Optional) Short description of my organization's Ajax activities and commitment to open technologies, such as open source
SAP has vast experience with enterprise-class Web user interfaces, which we hope can help make OpenAjax successful. mySAP Business Suite makes extensive use of form and portal based user interfaces, fulfilling requirements of SAP's enterprise users for security, accessibility and browser portability. SAP was an early adopter of open source technologies, with SAP R/3 available on Linux in 1999 and full support of the Eclipse development environment in 2002. SAP makes major investments in supporting open standards and delivering products based on those standards. Michael is Chair of the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I), as well as a member of the Board of Directors of the Eclipse Foundation.
Nominee: TIBCO/Kevin Hakman
- Organization name: TIBCO Software Inc.
- Person who will serve on Steering Committee: Kevin Hakman
(Optional) Short description of my organization's Ajax activities and commitment to open technologies, such as open source
UPDATED 10/2/2006: TIBCO is contributing it's acclaimed TIBCO General Interface libraries and tools to the community through a BSD license, effective 10/2/2006. TIBCO has been an active collaborator in the group working early in the initial specification process with The Dojo Foundation to put forth AJAX Hub extension concepts and possible architectures for mark-up mixing. In addition TIBCO demonstrated AJAX interoperability with TIBCO GI, Dojo, Yahoo and Google AJAX libraries at JavaOne 2006. TIBCO will continue to be committed to AJAX interoperability and continue to contribute to the open technologies.
Nominee: ZEND/Mike Pinette
- Organization name: Zend Technologies Inc
- Person who will serve on Steering Committee: Mike Pinette
(Optional) Short description of my organization's Ajax activities and commitment to open technologies, such as open source
As an open source company that is contributing extensively to the evolution and relevance to the PHP Language and it's strong community, Zend is keenly interested in advancing the state of complimentary technologies to continue to drive the evolution of modern, business critical web applications development and deployment. Zend is dedicated to PHP, but further, has engineers and our co-founders Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski contributing to the PDO, SDO, and SCA standards efforts on behalf of the PHP language and extended community.
Nominee: ZIMBRA/Scott Dietzen
- Organization name: Zimbra, Inc.
- Person who will serve on Steering Committee: Scott Dietzen
(Optional) Short description of my organization's Ajax activities and commitment to open technologies, such as open source
Zimbra has contributed two Ajax technologies to open source: the Kabuki Ajax Toolkit (licensed under Apache or MPL) and the Zimbra Collaboration Suite Ajax Client, which provides email, calendaring, address book, and document authoring. Zimbra has been at the forefront of Ajax with innovations like Ajax Linking & Embedding and an extensible mash-up architecture for business/consumer web services, but our chief value-add may be the perspective of a multi-platform application provider with 135KLOC of JavaScript.
