There was a special session Friday morning at BoostCon 2011 to announce the formation of a Boost Steering Committee. The slides from that session have been annotated to make them more comprehensible to those not present. See http://tinyurl.com/3l27o3q (There is also a link on steering.boost.org, but DNS isn't resolving that yet for me. Instead use https://sites.google.com/a/boost.org/steering/) We haven't yet decided anything beyond what is on the slides, so it will take a bit of time before details emerge. As the slides mention, the first job of the steering committee is to design of its own operating procedures and policies. Input from the Boost community will help form those procedures and policies. The steering committee is an important change in the way Boost operates! We hope it will position Boost to continue to grow and prosper. --The Boost Steering Committee Beman Dawes Dave Abrahams Hartmut Kaiser Jeff Garland Jon Kalb Marshall Clow Robert Stewart Steven Wantanabe
On 27.05.2011 15:06, Beman Dawes wrote:
[...] to announce the formation of a Boost Steering Committee. [...] The steering committee is an important change in the way Boost operates!
We hope it will position Boost to continue to grow and prosper.
Cool! :) I like your initiative :)
On 5/27/2011 6:06 AM, Beman Dawes wrote:
There was a special session Friday morning at BoostCon 2011 to announce the formation of a Boost Steering Committee.
It's certainly good news (even if I was aware of it before this email). But I have one immediate concern..
--The Boost Steering Committee Beman Dawes Dave Abrahams Hartmut Kaiser Jeff Garland Jon Kalb Marshall Clow Robert Stewart Steven Wantanabe
Being a board member, of a political organization, I'm familiar with the dynamics of filling committees and boards to represent the varied interests of the members. And I worry that, AFAICT, the above misses the rather important demographic of: * The people that are highly active in the community but can't come to the conference because of various reasons. In my case for economic reasons, but for others it's geographic reasons, etc. * The people from non-US locales. Hopefully you will consider ways of including the diverse Boost population as time goes on. Anyway, good news to hear :-) -- -- Grafik - Don't Assume Anything -- Redshift Software, Inc. - http://redshift-software.com -- rrivera/acm.org (msn) - grafik/redshift-software.com -- 102708583/icq - grafikrobot/aim,yahoo,skype,efnet,gmail
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