update: migrate elections section to hugo

This is a straight port of the content where possible, with a notable difference that the nominee pages are now their own pages rather than a single page with query parameters.

config/nginx/default.conf

@@ -262,6 +262,16 @@ server {
       return 301 https://$host/org/artwork/;
     }
 
+    location = /org/elections/nominees.php {
+      return 301 https://$host/org/elections/nominees;
+    }
+    location = /org/elections/election_process.php {
+      return 301 https://$host/org/elections/election-process;
+    }
+    location = /org/elections/keydates.php {
+      return 301 https://$host/org/elections/key-dates;
+    }
+
     location /org/foundation/staff.php {
       return 301 https://$host/org/foundation/staff/;
     }

content/org/elections/2006/gwagenknecht.xml

+
+<boardmember id="gwagenknecht" type="committer">
+
+    <name>Gunnar Wagenknecht</name>
+
+    <title>Software Engineer</title>
+
+    <image> gwagenknecht.png </image>
+
+    <email>gunnar@wagenknecht.org</email>
+
+    <phone>+49-179-144-8657</phone>
+
+    <contact><![CDATA[
+    	Joliot-Curie-Str. 6 <br/>
+        D-99510 Apolda <br/>
+        Germany <br/>
+        ]]>
+    </contact>
+
+    <eclipse_affiliation>Platform UI Committer, EclipseCon 2006 PC Member, Plug-in Developer</eclipse_affiliation>
+
+    <vision><![CDATA[
+	<p>If I would be elected as your representative I'd like to actively participate in this role and take care that 
+	your requests and opinions are well recognized and presented in the Eclipse Board of Directors.</p>
+	<p>
+        In my current job I'm also a member of a Project Management Circle and responsible for analyzing and reviewing established 
+	development processes and tools. One goal of this circle is to harmonize the different tools, isolated applications and 
+	isolated processes grown over years in different teams and departments. Based on the experiences gathered in this circle 
+	and my background in software development processes and developing and contributing to Eclipse I'd like to start a review 
+	of the tools involved into your daily work and hosted by the Eclipse Foundation. </p>
+	<p>
+        I don't want to rapidly change any tools or underlying processes. I want to collect your pain and discuss any issues you 
+	have with the tools or the processes with you and the board. If possible and desirable there will be a smooth evolution of 
+	existing and well established tools.  For example, I recently opened bug 121703 (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=121703) 
+	to start a discussion about the Bugzilla customization strategy. And if there is a need for a new tool, I'll make sure that 
+	you will get the best tool available that integrates as smart as possible in your daily work.</p>
+	<p>
+        My work will be transparent and open for you. I'll will blog about my activities and inform you about results and points we discussed.</p>
+	]]>
+    </vision>
+
+    <bio><![CDATA[
+	<p>I'm a Software Engineer living in Germany. My experiences range from creating business applications, e-commerce web applications 
+	and software development tools till interacting with business partners and senior management and building and shipping 
+	commercial software products.</p>
+	<p>
+        I like fishing, diving, family and a good beer or a fine glass of red wine. Enjoy my blog at http://wagenknecht.org/blog/.</p>
+    ]]>
+    </bio>
+
+    <affiliation>
+	My current employer was one of the early adopters developing a complete development environment based on Eclipse. I was 
+	responsible for the technical leadership of this development environment. We developed a lot extensions and successfully adopted 
+	Eclipse from version 2.0 till the latest 3.2 milestones.     
+    </affiliation>
+
+        
+</boardmember>
+

content/org/elections/2006/hlewis.xml

+<boardmember id="hlewis" type="addin">
+	<name>Howard Lewis</name>
+	<title> <![CDATA[ 
+		Advisor/Board Member SlickEdit Inc.
+		<br/>
+		President & CEO Discovery Machine Inc.
+	]]> </title>
+	<image>hlewis.jpg</image>
+	<email> hlewis@discoverymachine.com </email>
+	<phone> 919-819-4310 </phone>
+	<contact> <![CDATA[
+		Discovery Machine, Inc.<br/>
+		454 Pine Street<br/>
+		Suite 1A<br/>
+		Williamsport, PA,<br/>
+		USA 17701<br/>
+	]]> </contact>
+	<eclipse_affiliation> 
+		Mr. Lewis is currently the Add-In Provider Representative to the Eclipse Foundation for 
+		SlickEdit Inc. and Discovery Machine, Inc. He currently sits on the Board of the Eclipse Foundation 
+		and is a member of the Compensation and Membership Committees. He has been an active part of the 
+		Eclipse 'movement'for several years. 
+		</eclipse_affiliation>
+
+	<vision>  <![CDATA[
+		<p>
+		Mr. Lewis remains dedicated to helping make Eclipse THE preeminent open source movement. 
+		Preeminent as both the most useful and vibrant open source community and the most widely 
+		adopted commercial tool and deployment framework. He will continue to provide special focus 
+		on the needs of the Software Development, Knowledge Leverage and Life Sciences domains. He 
+		will continue to stay in contact will all members of the Add-in Provider community and 
+		actively promote the needs and growth of this key Eclipse Foundation membership body! 
+		</p>
+		<p>
+		Focus Summary:
+		<ol>
+		<li>Promotion of member joint marketing, sales, and business development initiatives</li>
+		<li>Continue to actively promote the adoption of mechanisms/channels to leverage the huge Eclipse pull for members</li>
+		<li>Continue to work to align the Eclipse Foundation priorities with the intent of promoting the interests of smaller Add-in Provider companies</li>
+		<li>Provide further definition and verification of the prospect of an accepted certification business model</li>
+		<li>Focus on Foundation budget priorities to increase member marketing and sales success</li>
+		<li>Improve useful and timely communications via newsletters, blogs, email leverage etc.</li>
+		<li>Look for opportunities to promote the Foundation in Asia and other under represented geographies</li>
+		<li>Look for innovative ways to step-up the pace of deployment on Linux and Mac</li>
+		<li>Give proper priority and attention to the Eclipse infrastructure needs of  the Embedded Systems, Application Development, Business Intelligence and Life Sciences domains/vertical business areas  </li>
+		</ol>
+
+	]]>	</vision>
+
+	<bio> <![CDATA[
+		<p>
+		Experience Summary: Mr. Lewis has over 40 years of leadership experience in all facets of 
+		software and services companies. He has managed or performed all duties in startups and 
+		Fortune 10 companies, alike. Mr. Lewis is currently President and CEO of Discovery Machine, 
+		Inc., an Advisor to SlickEdit Inc., Patent Wizards International, and Nevalon Technologies 
+		LLC.  Mr. Lewis currently serves on the boards of Discovery Machine, The National Modeling, 
+		Simulation, Analysis and Training Coalition, the Eclipse Foundation, and SlickEdit. He also 
+		is the Representative for SlickEdit and Discovery Machine in the Eclipse Foundation and the 
+		Discovery Machine Representative in the BioSPICE open source community.
+		</p>
+		<p>Work History/Accomplishments:</p>
+		<p>2004-Present</p>
+		<p>
+		Mr. Lewis is currently President and CEO of Discovery Machine, Inc., an Advisor to SlickEdit 
+		Inc., Patent Wizards International, and Nevalon Technologies LLC.  Mr. Lewis currently 
+		serves on the boards of Discovery Machine, The National Modeling, Simulation, Analysis and 
+		Training Coalition, and SlickEdit. He also is the Add-in Provider Representative for 
+		SlickEdit and Discovery Machine in the Eclipse Foundation and the Discovery Machine 
+		Representative in the BioSPICE open source community.
+		</p>
+		<p>2003</p>
+		Mr. Lewis joined ePic International, Inc., at the request of the Board of Directors, as 
+		President and CEO.  He was charged with leading the stabilization and re-definition of the 
+		JV relationships in Asia and Australia, re-doing the PPM and seeking new funding. In 2 
+		months he determined that the company was too flawed and too much in debt to continue 
+		operation. Mr. Lewis led the task of placing the company into Chapter 7. He has recently 
+		completed a consulting engagement for the US bankruptcy court appointed trustee to help 
+		bring maximum return to the creditors of ePic International.
+		</p>
+		<p>2001-2002</p>
+		<p>
+		Mr. Lewis joined SlickEdit, Inc. as an Advisor and was soon appointed President and COO. At 
+		SlickEdit he led the re-branding and re-launch of the company. He helped in creating Sales 
+		and Business Development, Marketing and Product Management, and Development and Customer 
+		Support positions and supporting processes. He also brought in a top-notch team to fill 
+		these roles.
+		</p>
+		<p>1999-2000</p>
+		<p>
+		Mr. Lewis joined NxView Technologies, Inc. after leading the pre-funding business case 
+		analysis that led to the creation of NxView. He was integral in creating the following 
+		positions and recruiting the world-class team to fill these positions.   He held positions 
+		as General Manager, Exec VP of Products and Services, Vice President of Research and 
+		Technical Strategy, Corporate Client Relations Executive and COO, during the formation and 
+		successful launch of NxView. At his retirement he oversaw all research and validation of key 
+		technology directions for NxView.
+		</p>
+		<p>1995-1998</p>
+		<p>
+		Mr. Lewis joined SEER Technologies, Inc. after completing a comprehensive study of the Seer 
+		Methodology and successfully completed Seer's training programs for the Seer•Method and 
+		Seer•HPS. While at SEER, Mr. Lewis held the following positions: Sr. Consultant, Sales 
+		Consulting Manager, Consulting Director of Eastern North America and retired as VP of 
+		Customer Relationships.  He was recognized with the Founders and Top Gun Awards (the only 
+		non-sales person to achieve recognition as the top sales leader in the company). He also; 
+		Lead the definition and implementation of a company wide Customer Relationship process and 
+		was responsible for key customer executive relationships around the world. He also led the 
+		definition and start-up of major consulting engagements, in the Transportation, 
+		Manufacturing and Services Industries, performing wide-ranging leadership tasks ranging from 
+		overall I/T strategy development through engagement management.
+		</p>
+		<p>1995-Present</p>
+		<p>
+		Mr. Lewis has acted as an independent consultant since his retirement from IBM. He provides 
+		strategic and tactical business development services out of his home offices in Raleigh, NC, 
+		Emerald Isle, NC, and Lodi, NY. He dedicates a portion of his efforts as pro bono services 
+		to help stimulate not for profit and for profit initiatives, worldwide. He remains dedicated 
+		to helping others achieve their deserved success!
+		</p>
+		<p>1965-1995</p>
+		<p>
+		Mr. Lewis spent 30 years with IBM in Software Development and Management.  His role as a 
+		corporate executive for the Worldwide Software Service Process was defining and implementing 
+		the quality process definition and metrics for the IBM Company.  Mr. Lewis represented IBM 
+		on Software Quality initiatives at numerous conferences worldwide, including guest lecturing 
+		at Motorola University.  He was also responsible for advanced design and strategy for some 
+		of the world's largest and most successful operating systems and application development 
+		products. He received numerous awards for technology, business and management leadership and 
+		was elected President of his IBM Presidents Class. Additionally, Mr. Lewis oversaw the 
+		creation and management of strategic relationships for the IBM Application Development and 
+		Systems Management businesses. 
+		</p>	
+	]]>
+	</bio>
+
+	<affiliation> <![CDATA[ 
+		<b>About SlickEdit, Inc.</b>
+		<p>
+		SlickEdit Inc. provides software developers with Multilanguage development environments and 
+		the most advanced code editors available. Proven on Windows, Linux, UNIX and Mac OS X 
+		platforms, SlickEdit products enable even the most accomplished developers to code faster 
+		and meet increasingly aggressive deadlines. 
+		</p>
+		<p>
+		SlickEdit's best-of-breed products have created an award winning tradition over its 17-year 
+		history. From the numerous customer-based awards such as the Linux World Reader's Choice 
+		award and Programmer's Paradise Top Seller awards to the Editor's Choice award from e-Pro 
+		Magazine and the Software Development Hall of Fame award, SlickEdit products continually add 
+		to and expand on the product foundation of quality, speed, power and flexibility developed 
+		years ago by founder and CTO, J. Clark Maurer.
+		</p>
+		<p>
+		Along with producing award-winning products, SlickEdit is considered to be an Employer of 
+		Choice and has achieved recognition as one of the Deloitte & Touche Fast 50 technology 
+		companies for four consecutive years. SlickEdit is committed to continuing this tradition of 
+		excellence.
+		</p>
+		<p>
+		SlickEdit Inc. is a privately held, small business with headquarters in the heart of the 
+		renowned Research Triangle, NC.  </p>
+	
+	]]>
+	</affiliation>
+
+		
+</boardmember>

content/org/elections/2006/jkrause.xml

+<boardmember id="jkrause" type="addin">
+	<name>Jochen Krause</name>
+	<title>Managing Director, Innoopract</title>
+	<image>jkrause.png</image>
+	<email>jochen.krause@innoopract.com</email>
+	<phone>(503) 608-7972</phone>
+	<contact><![CDATA[
+		Innoopract, <br/>
+		Stephanienstr. 20, <br/>
+		76133 Karlsruhe <br/>
+		Germany
+	]]>
+	</contact>
+	<eclipse_affiliation>Jochen is a member of the Webtools Project PMC and an active promoter of Eclipse in Europe</eclipse_affiliation>
+
+	<vision>  <![CDATA[My vision for Eclipse:
+                <p>
+		Making Eclipse a long-term success based on a broad community and a successful ecosystem. 
+		Eclipse is a fantastic success story built on great technology and Open Source - and as well 
+		on the broad number of large and 
+		small companies that support it. It will be pivotal for the long term success of Eclipse to foster business adoption 
+                as well as technological excellence. We need to be agile not only on the development side, 
+                but as well in steadily improving the Eclipse Foundation and the ecosystem.</p>
+		<p>
+                My three most important objectives:
+		<ul>
+    		<li>Building the Ecosystem: strive for providing more value to membership (e.g. 
+		market data, member section on eclipse.org). Help to develop better networking and 
+		collaboration between members. Engage with members to provide success stories, 
+		use cases.</li>
+    		<li>Represent and promote the business interests of the Add-In Providers at the board, most 
+		of them small to medium sized companies</li>
+    		<li>Leverage an European based board representation to help add-in providers in an successful 
+		and rapidly growing European market.</li>
+		</p>
+		<p>Please contact me if you have any questions.</p>]]>
+	</vision>
+
+	<bio> <![CDATA[
+		<p>As Founder and President of Innoopract, a recognized specialist in Eclipse distribution and 
+		visual web application development tools, Jochen has been pivotal for Innoopract's success in 
+		the Eclipse market. Jochen works closely with European fortune 500 companies to help them 
+		evaluate Eclipse and develop their strategies for basing their tool and / or application strategies 
+		on Eclipse. Over the last several years of helping these enterprises, he has gained a deep understanding 
+		of the opportunities and difficulties with Eclipse tool and service offerings, and the needs for 
+		effective distribution channels and promotion. </p>
+		<p>
+		Since Innoopract joined the Eclipse foundation in June of 2003, Jochen has played an active role in 
+		furthering the goals of the consortium and then the Foundation. He is a member of the Web Tools PMC, 
+		was a member of the Independent Entity Committee, has been a driving force behind promoting Eclipse 
+		in Europe, is a frequent speaker at events as well as regular author of articles on Eclipse and 
+		Eclipse projects.  </p>
+		<p>
+		Innoopract's company strategy is entirely focused on Eclipse.  The company offers an Eclipse distribution, 
+		Eclipse-based tools for Rich Internet applications, Eclipse consulting, Eclipse implementation, support 
+		and training.  Innoopract is recognized as the leading provider of Eclipse services and consulting in Germany.</p>
+		<p>
+		Jochen holds a degree in industrial engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany and has an 
+		extensive business and technology background. He has been a successful entrepreneur in the software 
+		development space for 14 years.</p>
+		]]>
+	</bio>
+
+	<affiliation> <![CDATA[
+		<p><a href="www.innopract.com">Innoopract</a> is a software and service company that helps developers and corporations 
+		make the most of their investment in development tools and platforms - based on Eclipse. The company was 
+		among the first Eclipse members in Europe and is a founding member of the Eclipse foundation. Innoopract 
+		provides products and services for the effective adoption of Eclipse in the Enterprise. Well known Innoopract 
+		tools are W4T and Yoxos - the Eclipse distribution. </p>
+		<p>
+		Innoopract is a member of the EclipsePluginCentral Alliance, providing a useful service to the Eclipse 
+		Eco-System: www.eclipseplugincentral.com. </p>
+		]]>
+	</affiliation>
+
+		
+</boardmember>

content/org/elections/2006/jmcaffer.xml

+
+<boardmember id="jmcaffer" type="committer">
+
+	<name> Jeff McAffer </name>
+
+	<title> Senior Software Engineer </title>
+
+	<image> jmcaffer.jpg </image>
+
+	<email> jeff_mcaffer@ca.ibm.com</email>
+
+	<phone> +1 613 726 5531 </phone>
+
+	<contact> <![CDATA[
+		2670 Queensview Drive, <br/>
+		Ottawa, Ontario, <br/>
+		Canada K2B 8K1 
+	]]>
+	</contact>
+
+	<eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
+	<a href="http://eclipse.org/equinox">Equinox</a> and <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Rich_Client_Platform">RCP</a> lead, Eclipse PMC member 
+	]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
+
+	<vision> <![CDATA[
+<p>
+We started Eclipse six years ago with a vision of a platform for composing function and creating toolsets for varying users in a wide range of domains.  This has been a roaring success.  The user-base and developer community have grown beyond our wildest dreams.  Eclipse dominates the open source tooling market and the word "Eclipse" is now synonymous with "quality", "industrial strength" and "componentized".
+</p><p>
+The addition of many new language and tooling domains as well as RCP, OSGi and other technologies is a further testament to the draw of our technology and community.  As a committer, you should be proud.
+</p><p>
+This success is not without challenges however.  
+</p><p>
+<b>Growth :</b> The Eclipse community is growing by leaps and bounds.  It seems every week there is a new project proposal to review.  This is exciting but many of you have concerns about the strain this puts on the notions of quality and consistency that underly Eclipse.  The good news is that tooling and infrastructure can help!
+<ul>
+<li>API and version management.  API and versioning are at the heart of the Eclipse component model.  The new plug-in versioning scheme helps you express your intent while efforts like the WTP API tools help you manage your use of API.  Work in these areas should be continued, expanded, and promoted across all projects in Eclipse.</li>
+
+<li>Bug management.  We need to look for new and innovative ways of handling the thousands of bug reports that flow into the system on a monthly basis.  Whether it is automated duplicate searching or human assistance, we need help!</li>
+
+<li>Release engineering and build support.  The new build farm is an excellent idea.  We must continually look for additional infrastructure and ideas that make the life of a committer, your life, easier.</li>
+
+<li>New project support.  Teams attempting to start a project at Eclipse need help such as standard layouts, processes and structures, project mentors, reviews and interaction from the rest of the community.</li>
+</ul>
+<br/>
+<b>Distributing your output :</b> The Callisto release train is a bold and valuable experiment for both the project teams and our consumers.  We should press forward, make it a success, learn from it, repeat it and broaden its scope.  In addition, we should invest in new and innovative ways of distributing Eclipse plug-ins.  For example, 
+<br/>- Plug-in repositories
+<br/>- BitTorrent Update sites
+<br/>- Dynamic download packaging
+<br/>- Packaging and delivery consistency across projects
+<br/>- Update technology investigation and use
+</p><p>
+<b>Synergies :</b> Eclipse has grown beyond the Platform, beyond WTP, beyond &lt;any individual project&gt;.  There are tremendous untapped synergies lurking.  RCP and BIRT, DTP, Higgins, ECF, etc., WTP and DTP, STP.  Some individual project teams are interacting here and there, but the power and usefulness of Eclipse as a whole would sky-rocket with modest but widespread investments in integration.  We should promote and facilitate this interaction.
+</p><p>
+Similarly, we increasingly intersect with other open source communities such as Apache.  The Foundation can play a pivotal role in promoting collaboration and cooperation with these communities.
+</p><p>
+<b>Fine Print :</b> It is surprising how often a discussion related to open source software turns into a discussion of licenses, IP, export laws, ....  As committers we typically have only a rudimentary understanding of what it all means but yet getting it right is vitally important.  We should look for practical but effective ways of lowering the legal barriers that block your progress and prevent your output from being used.  For example, fast turn-around on legal reviews, documents of understanding between parties, license clarification or modification as needed, dual licensing, ... 
+</p><p>
+I would be honoured to serve as your representative and work to further the goals and ideas outlined above.  
+</p>
+
+	]]> </vision>
+
+	<bio> Jeff leads the Eclipse Equinox and Eclipse RCP teams.  He is one of the architects of the Eclipse Platform and a co-author of The Eclipse Rich Client Platform (Addison-Wesley).  He is a member of the Eclipse Project PMC and has been involved in Eclipse from the beginning.  He is currently interested in helping realize Eclipse's original vision as a platform for composing general sets of application function to solve real problems.  Previous lives included work in distributed/parallel OO computing (Server Smalltalk, massively parallel Smalltalk, etc) as well as expert systems, meta-level architectures and a PhD at the University of Tokyo.
+	</bio>
+
+	<affiliation> IBM, OSGi Core Platform Expert Group member
+	</affiliation>
+
+		
+</boardmember>

content/org/elections/2006/kmaetzel.xml

+
+<boardmember id="kmaetzel" type="committer">
+
+	<name> Kai-Uwe Maetzel </name>
+
+	<title> Senior Software Engineer </title>
+
+	<image> kmaetzel.jpg </image>
+
+	<email> kai-uwe_maetzel@ch.ibm.com </email>
+
+	<phone> +41 44 267 65 25 </phone>
+
+	<contact> <![CDATA[
+		Oberdorfstrasse 8, <br/>
+		CH-8001 Zurich, Switzerland<br/><br/>
+		15350 SW KOLL PKWY, <br/>
+		BEAVERTON OR 97006, USA
+	]]>
+	</contact>
+
+	<eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
+		2005 Committer Representative on the Board of Directors,<br/>
+		Platform and JDT Text Committer,<br/>
+		JDT UI Committer
+	]]>
+	</eclipse_affiliation>
+
+	<vision> <![CDATA[
+		<h4>The look back</h4>
+		<p>I have been serving as committer representative on the Board of Directors since April 2005. The work areas I proposed in my first election statement were driven by our needs as committers. Back then, I had a limited understanding of how the Board directs the work of the Eclipse Foundation, and  I didn't know to what degree or how quickly we could realistically expect solutions to our problems. After 10 months on the Board working with the Foundation - certainly an interesting and challenging environment - I have a good picture of how to work towards a solutions for our problems. Let's look back at the events and achievements that are particularly interesting for the committers.</p>
+		<ul>
+		<li>After initial problems during the introduction of the new infrastructure, the  availability and reliability of the Foundation provided services have been significantly improved and stabilized to a high level. The Board and the Foundation are sensitive to the importance of a highly reliable infrastructure to the committers. The Foundation is constantly monitoring the availability of their services and reporting the data regularly to the Board.</li>
+		<li>New infrastructure services such as live web stats, the wiki and, under the umbrella of the Barnraising Project, virtual servers for the projects have been introduced. Build environments for eclipse.org projects and tools allowing PMC and committers to self-manage their CVSs and bugzilla components are planned or already underway.</li>
+		<li>Bug management is still missing the necessary improvements. This issue however is acknowledged by the Foundation and the 2006 budget allows the Foundation to address it.</li>
+		<li>We all agree on the importance of the quality of our projects. In order to provide projects with an environment that allows them to mature effectively, the Eclipse development process has been refined. In addition, the eclipse.org dashboards mark the first attempt to visualize some aspects of quality.</li>
+		<li>Cross-project committer meetings with associated code camps are beginning to take off. We have had meetings in Portland and Ottawa and will see a significant increase in number and frequency in 2006.</li>
+		<li>The Callisto release train is recognized as a distinctive eclipse.org feature. The Foundation is ready to provide the necessary support to ensure the success of the release train. The planning council and the projects now need  to define what form this support should take.</li>
+		</ul>
+		<p>What has been my personal contribution to these achievements? I worked with eclipse committers to identify  issues hampering their work and to find possible solutions. I worked to form an alliance with the other committer representatives to solve these issues. We worked together to  raise the awareness of the Board and the Eclipse Foundation staff of the problems, their possible solutions, and their potential financial impact.  We spent a great deal of time in discussion, persuading the Board to support the implementation of solutions, and monitoring initiatives to ensure things were moving in the right direction. Yes, being a committer representative is a political task and, as a developer, I had to get used to it.</p>
+		<p>The joint effort of all committer representatives on the Board - Scott, John, and I - helped to continuously focus the work of the Foundation on issues important for the committers. Go to Mike's blog where he writes about the <a href="http://milinkovich.blogspot.com/2005/11/open-budgeting.html">2006 budget</a>. Have a look at the "Projects and Committers" section of the proposed <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/2006BudgetPrograms">programs</a>. The section talks about infrastructure, quality, cross-team collaboration, and the Callisto release train. I hope you agree that these are the directions that will positively impact you as a committer.</p>
+		<h4>Continuing to move forward</h4>
+		<p>For 2006, we need to continue work in the areas we identified in 2005. We have made good progress, nevertheless, I believe these are still the important issues:</p>
+		<ul>	
+		<li>infrastructure improvements</li>
+		<li>technological innovation</li>
+		<li>cross-project collaboration</li>
+		<li>continuous focus on quality</li>
+		</ul>
+		<p>See the details in my  <a href="2006/kmaetzel2005.php">original 2005 statement</a>. In addition, I'm convinced 
+		that making the Callisto release train a success must be a top priority.  I'm a strong believer in the 
+		potential of the release train idea. It benefits us, the committers, and also the contributors and the 
+		entire Ecosystem. As a committer representative, in cooperation with the Planning and Architecture councils, 
+		I will help to promote the awareness and responsiveness of the  Foundation to the requirements of the release train.</p>
+
+		<p>I am ready to work hard to achieve solutions for these issues and the new issues that you, the committers bring forward.</p>
+	]]>
+	</vision>
+
+	<bio> <![CDATA[
+      <p>Kai is one of the original committers
+        on the Eclipse project and one 
+        of the three original developers of the Eclipse Java tooling. He was 
+        leading the Eclipse Platform Text component and was in charge of the editors of 
+        the JDT UI component. He teaches Eclipse tutorials, regularly gives presentations 
+        about Eclipse at conferences and in the industry, and has organized and 
+        participated in numerous code camps. Kai was lead of the UI side of the 
+        IBM VisualAge Micro Edition in its later days and authored its version 
+        and configuration management client component. Prior to joining OTI, and 
+        then IBM, he co-authored Beyond-SNiFF, a distributed, service-based IDE 
+        for large scale C++ projects commercialized as SNiFF+.</p>
+	]]>
+	</bio>
+
+	<affiliation> IBM </affiliation>
+
+		
+</boardmember>

content/org/elections/2006/kmaetzel2005.php

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+	#*****************************************************************************
+	#
+	# template.php
+	#
+	# Author: 		Denis Roy
+	# Date:			2005-06-16
+	#
+	# Description: Type your page comments here - these are not sent to the browser
+	#
+	#
+	#****************************************************************************
+	
+	$year="2006";
+	
+	#
+	# Begin: page-specific settings.  Change these. 
+	$pageTitle 		= "2005 Election Statement";
+	$pageKeywords	= "foundation, governance, board, elections";
+	$pageAuthor		= "Mike & Wayner";
+	
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+	#
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+	# Paste your HTML content between the EOHTML markers!	
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+	<div id="midcolumn">
+		<h1>Kai-Uwe M&auml;tzel: $pageTitle</h1>
+      <p>The success of Eclipse is of genuine interest to the Eclipse committers. 
+        The success requires the committers to work effectively. As committer 
+        representative I will:</p>
+      <ol>
+        <li>Enable the continuous success of Eclipse.</li>
+        <li>Communicate the varied perspectives and needs of the international 
+          Eclipse committer community to all the other parties represented by 
+          the Eclipse Foundation.</li>
+        <li>Work closely together with all the other parties represented by the 
+          Eclipse Foundation to get their best possible support that continues 
+          to allow the committers to work effectively and to produce results that 
+          satisfy the needs of all the parties.</li>
+      </ol>
+      <p>In the scope of these general responsibilities, I would like to address 
+        the following in the next year:</p>
+      <ul>
+        <li>We must continue to improve our infrastructure. Last year we made 
+          progress. Considerable improvements are to be put in place in the spring 
+          of this year. In addition to actively supporting this process, improvements 
+          to our bug reporting system are necessary. Components dealing with high 
+          bug report traffic pay a non-trivial overhead for managing those bug 
+          reports. A considerable portion of the overhead is generated by the 
+          need to request the bug reporters to complete bug reports with required 
+          information such as build ids; by transferring the bug reports to the 
+          correct product and component; by identifying duplicates; and by explaining 
+          reporters what severity, priority, and state express and by whom they 
+          may be manipulated. Improvements to the bug reporting system can be 
+          implemented to minimize the overhead. Changes to be investigated are 
+          an improved bug reporting form, tool supported duplication identification 
+          and management, and a more fine grained rights management.</li>
+        <li>The work on the first Eclipse projects was started about four years 
+          ago. They are maturing. This maturing can pose risks to technical innovation, 
+          if left unmanaged. In close cooperation with all the parties represented 
+          by the Eclipse Foundation we should explore what can be done to keep 
+          our development performance as high as it is and to sustain and extend 
+          our current technical leadership.</li>
+        <li>Eclipse is the home of numerous projects that build onto each other. 
+          We, the committers, have to work with all the other parties to ensure 
+          a steady flow of contributions and concrete collaborations between the 
+          projects in order to let the projects&rsquo; scopes and boundaries naturally 
+          evolve beyond their initial specification. We should work with the Eclipse 
+          Foundation to explore options to encourage and foster these collaborations.</li>
+        <li>We, the Eclipse committers, publicly connect our names with the brand 
+          &rsquo;Eclipse&rsquo;. We are interested that the &rsquo;Eclipse&rsquo; brand gains reputation 
+          and sustains its level of quality. We should work with the Eclipse Foundation 
+          to explore ways in which the committers of new projects can be supported 
+          in adopting the essential process attributes of existing, successful 
+          Eclipse projects. Such attributes are starting small and concrete, convince 
+          by delivering, and grow on previous concrete successes.</li>
+      </ul>
+      <br/>
+   	</div>
+	<div id="rightcolumn">
+		<div class="sideitem">
+			<h6>Quick Links</h6>
+			<ul>
+				<li><a href="../">Election Home</a></li>
+				<li><a href="../nominees.php">Candidates</a></li>
+				<li><a href="../keydates.php">Key Dates</a></li>
+				<li><a href="../election_process.php">Election Process</a></li>
+			</ul>
+		</div>
+	</div>
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+	# Generate the web page
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content/org/elections/2006/mtaylor.xml

+
+<boardmember id="mtaylor" type="addin">
+	<name> Mike Taylor </name>
+	<title> President/CEO Instantiations </title>
+	<image>mtaylor.jpg</image>
+	<email> mike_taylor@instantiations.com </email>
+	<phone> 503 598-4911 </phone>
+
+	<contact> <![CDATA[
+		Instantiations, Inc. 18101 <br/>
+		S.W. Boones Ferry Rd., Suite 200 <br/>
+		Portland, OR 97224 
+		]]>
+	</contact>
+	
+
+	<eclipse_affiliation> 
+		Since 1999 my professional life has been focused around Eclipse. Building open 
+		source and commercial technologies, establishing a profitable Eclipse-based company, and growing the 
+		Eclipse community have been my priorities. Instantiations is all Eclipse all the time. 
+	</eclipse_affiliation>
+
+	<vision><![CDATA[
+		My vision is to:
+		<ul>
+		<li>Make Eclipse a powerful "profitability platform" for Add-in providers.</li>
+		<li>Make the name "Eclipse" a competitive differentiator/advantage similar to "Intel Inside".
+		<li>Increase ROI for Add-in Provider membership in the Eclipse Foundation.</li>
+		<li>Create an "Eclipse User Council" that brings together key users (not necessarily members) from major 
+		industries (i.e. automotive, healthcare, insurance, etc, etc.) to offer suggestions to the Foundation on 
+		technology and marketing direction.
+		<li>Implement an <a href="http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com">"EPIC-like"</a> portal within eclipse.org that 
+		emphasizes Foundation members and gives each a highly visible zone in which to promote their products and 
+		services to the community and potential customers.</li>
+		<li>and of course, to assure that Eclipse technology remains the best on the planet!</li> 
+		</ul> ]]>
+	</vision>
+		
+	<bio><![CDATA[
+		<ul>
+		<li> Deeply involved in Eclipse technology and ecosystem since 1999</li>
+		<li> Former Member of Eclipse Consortium Board of Stewards</li>
+		<li> Member of EclipseCon 2006 Program Committee</li>
+		<li> Chair of the Eclipse Marketing Committee from 2002-2005</li>
+		<li> Lead project to establish Eclipse brand and logos</li>
+		<li> Member of Eclipse Market Research Working Group (2005)</li>
+		<li> Chair of Eclipse Market Research Working Group (2006)</li>
+		<li> Member of Eclipse Governance Committee (that designed and formed the Eclipse Foundation)</li>
+		<li> Founding member of <a href="http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com">EPIC</a>, a leading Eclipse portal</li>
+		<li> Leads company dedicated to Eclipse. Instantiations has lead eclipse open source projects, 
+		contributed code, participated in forming the Foundation and lead numerous Eclipse-focused committees. </li>
+		<li> Over 25 years of experience in the software industry.</li>
+		</ul> <br/><br/>
+		<a href="http://www.instantiations.com/moreaboutmike.htm">...more about Mike</a>]]>
+	</bio>
+
+	<affiliation><![CDATA[
+		<ul>
+		<li>Instantiations, Inc, provider of WindowBuilder Pro, SWT Designer, and CodePro Analytix. Instantiations 
+		is a technology company totally focused on Eclipse. Instantiations has lead the KOI and Pollinate projects.</li>
+		<li>Founding member  of the <a href=" http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com/ContentExpress-display-ceid-2.html">Eclipse Plugin Central Alliance</a>.</li>
+		</ul> ]]>
+	</affiliation>
+
+</boardmember>
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content/org/elections/2006/rmain.xml

+<boardmember id="rmain" type="addin">
+	<name>Rich Main</name>
+	<title>Director, Java Development Environments at SAS</title>
+	<image>rmain.jpg</image>
+	<email> rich.main@sas.com </email>
+	<phone> 919-531-5594 </phone>
+	<contact> <![CDATA[
+		SAS Campus Drive <br/>
+		R3246 <br/>
+		Cary, NC 27513 <br/>
+	]]>
+	</contact>
+	<eclipse_affiliation> 
+		I have been the SAS representative to Eclipse for the past 3 1/2 years, and participated actively
+		in the formulation of the current Eclipse Foundation development process and bylaws, the Eclipse Public License,
+		and the IP Policy.  I have been an elected Add-In Provider Member Representative to the Eclipse Foundation
+		Board of Directors for the past 2 years.
+	</eclipse_affiliation>
+
+	<vision>  <![CDATA[
+		At SAS, we see Eclipse as being critical to the long-term viability of Java as a platform for enterprise application 
+		development and deployment. As a result, we are committed to working within the Eclipse community to foster an 
+		environment that supports continuing innovation while also increasing the end-user focus of the Eclipse development process.
+		This is a necessary component of taking Eclipse to the &quot;next level&quot; as it grows from supporting just developers to 
+		also supporting end-user consumer organizations. At the same time, the vibrant community that has been such a critical 
+		part of Eclipse&rsquo;s success thus far must be preserved and nurtured. This community is the engine that fuels the
+		innovation and drives growing adoption of Eclipse across the software industry. In this respect, it is crucially 
+		important that the Add-in Provider representatives on the board forge relationships with each of the other Add-in Provider 
+		members to understand and represent the full range of Add-in Provider member needs. Finally, we need to work with
+		standards organizations to drive adoption of Eclipse based technology as industry standards. This will ensure that 
+		Eclipse is everywhere our end-users need to be.  To that end, I would appreciate your vote of support!
+	]]>
+	</vision>
+
+	<bio> <![CDATA[ 
+		I am the Director of Java Development Environments at SAS. In that role, I oversee the development of a
+		number of Eclipse based technologies, including SAS AppDev Studio&trade;, an enterprise business intelligence
+		application development suite built on top of the Eclipse IDE, and the Eclipse RCP based SAS Rich Client 
+		Platform, which serves as the basis for a number of our vertical market business intelligence solutions.  
+		In addition to these duties, I work actively within the Java community as a member of organizations such 
+		as the Eclipse Foundation and the Java Community Process (JCP) Executive Committee to ensure that the Java 
+		platform supports development and deployment of robust enterprise applications.  I graduated from Duke 
+		University with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and have over 20 years of software
+		development experience.
+	]]>
+	</bio>
+
+	<affiliation> <![CDATA[ 
+		SAS is the market leader in providing a new generation of business intelligence software and services that create true 
+		enterprise intelligence. SAS solutions are used at 40,000 sites &ndash; including 96 of the top 100 companies on the FORTUNE
+		Global 500&reg; &ndash; to develop more profitable relationships with customers and suppliers; to enable better, more accurate 
+		and informed decisions; and to drive organizations forward. SAS is the only vendor that completely integrates leading 
+		data warehousing, analytics and traditional BI applications to create intelligence from massive amounts of data. For 
+		nearly three decades, SAS has been giving customers around the world The Power to Know&reg;.
+		<br/><br/>
+		For more information about SAS, visit us on the web at <a href="http://www.sas.com">http://www.sas.com</a>.
+	]]>
+	</affiliation>
+
+		
+</boardmember>

content/org/elections/2006/slewis.xml

+
+<boardmember id="slewis" type="committer">
+
+	<name>Scott Lewis</name>
+
+	<title>Software Engineer</title>
+
+	<image>slewis.jpg</image>
+
+	<email>slewis@composent.com</email>
+
+	<phone>503-756-8719</phone>
+
+	<contact><![CDATA[
+		2606 NE 38th Ave, <br/>
+		Portland OR, <br/>
+		USA, 97212
+	]]>
+	</contact>
+
+	<eclipse_affiliation><![CDATA[
+		2005 committer representative on the Board of Directors. 
+		<br/> 
+		Project lead for Eclipse Communication Framework
+		]]>
+	</eclipse_affiliation>
+
+	<vision><![CDATA[
+		As the 2005 committer Board representative I have worked to: 
+		<ol>
+		<li>Improve the communication and teamwork effectiveness across all Eclipse Foundation projects </li>
+		<li>Advocate for and implement improved Foundation infrastructure and process</li>
+		<li>Represent at the Board level the needs of the committers from both small and large EF projects</li>
+		</ol>
+		<p>If re-elected for 2006, I will redouble my efforts in these three areas, particularly by supporting 
+		the distributed teamwork and communication needs of the Eclipse committer community.  </p>
+
+		<p> I believe the ECF project provides an opportunity to support the Eclipse community's communications needs with
+		systems created fully in the spirit of Eclipse:  open (both software and protocol), extensible, interoperable, 
+		and integrated.  </p>
+		]]>
+	</vision>
+
+	<bio>Dr. Scott Lewis has been a professional software engineer and architect for 18 years at workplaces
+		such as AT&amp;T Bell Laboratories, Intel Architecture Laboratories, and software startups of his own and other's creation.  
+		Although interested in several technical areas, he's most interested in communications and distributed systems 
+		design and implementation.  He's the author of academic as well as professional articles, and would love to write 
+		a book on ECF in the coming year.  Scott is passionate about making Eclipse/Eclipse RCP an open platform for 
+		integrated and interoperable communications applications.</bio>
+
+	<affiliation>Principal at Composent, Inc.  Software Architect at Cayuse, Inc.</affiliation>
+
+</boardmember>

content/org/elections/2006/ssmith.xml

+<boardmember id="ssmith" type="addin">
+
+	<name>Shaun Smith</name>
+
+	<title>Product Manager, Oracle TopLink</title>
+
+	<image> ssmith.jpg
+	</image>
+
+	<email>shaun.smith@oracle.com</email>
+
+	<phone>1-403-681-8953</phone>
+
+	<contact><![CDATA[
+Oracle Corp<br/>
+Suite 2600<br/>
+144 4th Avenue SW<br/>
+Calgary, Alberta<br/>
+Canada T2P 3N4		]]>
+	</contact>
+	
+	<eclipse_affiliation> 
+		I'm project co-lead of the Dali EJB Object-Relational Mapping Project which is
+		building frameworks and tools for the upcoming EJB 3.0 persistence specification and
+		a product manager with add-in provider Oracle Corp.
+	</eclipse_affiliation>
+	
+	<vision><![CDATA[
+		<p>
+		I've been using Eclipse since just before 1.0 so I've had plenty
+		of experience using Eclipse to build Java SE and Java EE applications.
+		But my experience using Eclipse did not completely prepare me for what
+		is involved in building add-in frameworks and tools for Eclipse.  There's
+		a lot you need to know if you are going to do this and unfortunately, while the
+		processes are well defined, the road isn't as clear as it could be.  There 
+		are many questions new add-in providers have and finding those answers isn't
+		always straightforward.
+		</p><p>
+		To help add-in providers build the Eclipse ecosystem I would like to see a 
+		mentoring program established for new projects.  Having a designated mentor
+		for each new project that is willing to answer questions about standard
+		Eclipse approaches, conventions, and technologies would speed the development
+		of add-ins and result in more consistent code that is more easily incorporated into
+		the ecosystem.  There are informal information gathering routes such as the mailing lists
+		and newsgroups but as someone who has been a mentor on many projects I know the value
+		of having a specific person you can go to for help.
+		</p><p>
+		There are many individuals with years of Eclipse experience and while many of them
+		are deeply involved with active projects, it would benefit the Eclipse community greatly
+		if they would lend some of their expertise to those just starting out.  Eclipse Foundation
+		support for a mentoring program would provide a means to connect those with experience
+		to share with those who need it.</p>
+	]]> </vision>
+
+	<bio> <![CDATA[
+		<p>
+		I've been an OO programmer and mentor for almost twenty years and have been 
+		working in Smalltalk, Java, C++, and (more recently) Ruby since I got 
+		my first job out of university.  Having been around that long I've seen
+		plenty of IDE's come and go.  Coming from the Smalltalk community I used
+		the development environments of all major vendors including IBM
+		Smalltalk/VisualAge.  For Java development I moved to VisualAge for Java
+		and then eventually to Eclipse.   All of these environment provided incremental
+		compilation--how anyone survives without incremental compilation is beyond
+		me!
+		</p><p>
+		For 11 years I was a consultant involved with the development of enterprise
+		systems and mentoring companies in OO technology.  My focus in the last 
+		few years has been on test driven development of 
+		systems that use object persistence and I've been active in the Agile software
+		development community both presenting at and helping organize conferences
+		and workshops.  I served on the program and organizing committees of XP/Agile Universe 2004
+		and was community liason for Canada.  I was also on the organizing committee of Agile 2005 and again
+		performed the role of community liason for Canada.  I'm currently a product manager for Oracle
+		TopLink which is the leading commercial Java product for mapping between
+		objects and relational databases (and now between objects and XML).
+		</p><p>
+		I'm an admitted early adopter and am likely to download very early builds
+		of something new and cool and I'm really excited to be involved in an Eclipse
+		project building support for the new industry standard Java persistence API!
+		</p> ]]>
+	</bio>
+
+	<affiliation>
+ 		Oracle's business is information--how to manage it, use it, share it, protect it; providing the 
+ 		software and services that let organizations get the most up-to-date and accurate information from 
+ 		their business systems. Oracle's Information Architecture is composed of integrated, standards-based 
+ 		technologies for infrastructure and applications. Our involvement in the Eclipse Foundation and Open 
+ 		Source helps us ensure that we have tooling support using open, readily available components as much 
+ 		as possible to reduce costs, streamline management and maintenance, and increase adaptability for our 
+ 		customers.  That's why Oracle has joined the Eclipse Software Foundation and is leading projects to 
+ 		provide support for Java technologies like JavaServer Faces (JSF), BPEL, and Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0. 		
+	</affiliation>
+	
+</boardmember>