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Members of the Raku Community have come together to support the election of a Raku Steering Council according to the process described in the Raku Governance Model.
These members are (in alphabetical order):
- Roman Baumer
- Vadim Belman
- Damian Conway
- Alexander Kiryuhin
- Moritz Lenz
- Elizabeth Mattijsen
- Samantha McVey
- JJ Merelo
- Claudio Ramirez
- Stefan Seifert
- Jonathan Worthington
Since there is no formal Raku "core team" yet, any person with a commit bit in either of these repositories, has active and passive voting rights:
This approach was chosen to ensure that anybody who has been involved in the Raku Programming Language in the past, has the possibility to indicate that they're still involved by casting a vote. People who did not contribute for the past two years and who did not vote for this election, will be assumed to be "inactive", and thus lose their voting rights until they indicate they want to be activated again.
Since there is also no formal voting process installed yet, the voting for the first elected Raku Steering Council will be done by email. Community member Will Coleda, who has been Perl Foundation Grant Committee Manager in the past, will perform the tallying of the votes.
Each person will only have one vote, even if they have commit bits to more than one of these repositories.
The activities of the Raku Steering Council should be as little as possible, so therefore being a council member should not take up a lot of time. Being on the council means that you can participate hands-on in the future of the Raku Programming Language, to decide on matters that need decisions if the core team members think a decision needs to be made.
If you would like to nominate yourself for the Raku Steering Council, you should add a file to the:
https://github.com/Raku/RSC/tree/main/nominations/2020
directory with your Github ID as the name of the file, and whatever information you would like to make available to the voters to make them vote for you.
The period to submit your nominations will start with this announcement and will last until midnight UTC, September 6th 2020.
This will be followed by a period of two weeks in which voting can be done, so the voting will close by midnight UTC, September 20th 2020.
A formatted email template will be provided which voters can use to cast their ballots, as defined in Raku Steering Council Code. A voter sends the email to will@coleda.com for this initial election. See the ballot at https://github.com/Raku/Raku-Steering-Council/blob/main/nominations/2020/voting-form.md
The result of the election will be announced by Will Coleda as soon as possible after the voting has closed.
We hope that this will allow moving the Raku Programming Language forward in a better coordinated, targeted way in these interesting times.
Stay healthy, stay safe!