[Plugtest-org] Announcement of ODF plugfest Programme Committee

[Arthur Buijs]

Dear all,

there were 10 candidates for the Programme Committee, with one candiate 
challenged by another member of the community on grounds of partiality. 
We have investigated this challenge, and came to the conclusion that it 
would not be fair to bar the candidate for this specific committee due 
to his past relationship with other projects. We have discussed this 
with the member of the community who put forward his challenge, and he 
has withdrawn the challenge.

The task for which the PC is responsible (deciding upon the programme of 
the non-technical part of the plugfest) is very limited in both time and 
nature and (as per experience) is unlikely to lead to lack of rough 
consensus among the members.

Since we expect all members of the Programme Committee to behave in a 
mature and responsible manner anyway, the full list of candidates is 
accepted and the PC will consist of the following people:

- Alan Bell (OFE)
- Basil Cousins (OFE)
- Patrick Durusau (Individual)
- Roberto Galoppini (Individual)
- Bart Hanssens (Fedict)
- Michiel Leenaars (OpenDoc Society, NLnet foundation)
- Doug Mahugh (Microsoft)
- Jos van den Oever (WebODF, KO GmbH)
- Louis-Suarez Potts
- Rob Weir (IBM)

In addition Joris Dirks from the Netherlands government programme NoiV 
will be part of the programme committee as representative of the local 
organisation for the Gouda Plugfest.

The first meeting will be this Thursday 15h00 UTC (17h00 CET), we will 
send out the details shortly.


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Regards/groeten,
Arthur Buijs
 
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