So fellow committers, please respond with a +1
                        (or -1) by end of day Monday, September 16,
                        2013.
                      Sam has been a contributor since the early days
                        of the Lyo project and become a committer back
                        in January 2012 [2].  Ohloh shows him as being
                        one of the most active in the project [3].
                      Some of the contributions that Sam has done
                        (not a complete list by far) that show he has
                        proven he warrants the nomination to project
                        lead are:
                       - improvements of the daily builds to provide
                        more frequent and valuable outputs
                       - publication of key assets to public Maven
                        repository
                       - improvements in overall source code project
                        structure to assist with getting started and
                        navigation
                      
                         - contribution of Linked Data Platform
                        reference implementation
                       - assisting many contributors with ensuring
                        their commits make it through cleanly
                       - assisting many consumers overcoming
                        obstacles for successful adoption.
                       - and much more
                      Ohloh and Eclipse tools show activity of
                        members, which you'll see how active Sam is
                        across wiki contributions, mailing list,
                        bugzilla and git.
                      By being becoming project lead, this will
                        enable Sam to function in full capacity with
                        certain functions in Eclipse that require
                        project lead access for various project
                        maintenance and release management.  This will
                        help greatly with the upcoming release of Lyo
                        2.0 and further release development.
                      
                        [1] - http://wiki.eclipse.org/Development_Resources/Changing_Leadership
                      [2] - http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/lyo-dev/msg00052.html
                      [3] - https://www.ohloh.net/p/eclipselyo
                        
                        Thanks in advance,
                        Steve Speicher
                        Eclipse Lyo Project Lead