Hi Nick,
Wayne Beaton has nominated you to join the Eclipse
Architecture Council in recognition of your achievements for the Eclipse
Community. In it's phone meeting today, the Council unanimously accepted this
nomination with an unprecedented amount of support (30 +1 votes from 40
members!). 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, but most of all your passion and support for the Eclipse
community. It is a role that should be neither given nor taken lightly.
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