[ZF] [Fwd: Chris Calloway Bio and ZF Board Interest]

[Tres Seaver]

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Forwarding on behalf of Chris Calloway, who is not a subscriber to the
list.  I spoke with Chris this evening about Rob Page's nomination of
Chris as a candidate for the Zope Foundation Board.

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Subject: Chris Calloway Bio and ZF Board Interest
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:33:21 -0500
From: Chris Calloway <cbc at unc.edu>
To: foundation at zope.org

ZF Members,

Tres Seaver has informed me I have been nominated to stand for
election to the Board of the Zope Foundation. We subsequently had a
conversation about the roles of the ZF and the duties of the Board. I
did not seek, but have accepted, the nomination.

What follows is a seven paragraph bio and statement of interest. I
hope you will read and consider it.

I am 50 years old and reside in Carrboro, North Carolina. I am cbcunc
on freenode. In the interest of keeping attachments off the mailing
list, my photograph is posted at:

http://trizpug.org/gallery/camp5/Chris%20Calloway.jpg/view

For the past six years I have been an applications analyst for the
University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) Department of Marine
Sciences, funded by the U.S. Office of Naval Research and the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. My main projects are the
Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association and the North
Carolina Coastal Ocean Observing System. Both could be described as
networks of coastal data sensors. I use Python, Zope, and Plone every
day for scientific data collection, processing, and distribution. My
areas of concentration are embedded systems, satellite telemetry, data
visualization, and content management. I operate the world's first
Doppler acoustic wind profiler on a coastal boundary as well as an
unmanned underwater autonomous vehicle in the Gulf Stream. I like my
job a lot. I especially like that it has allowed me to work with Zope.

Prior to UNC, most of my 28-year career was spent at IBM, where I was
lastly global team leader and lead developer for IBM Remote Connect
(you saw those TV commercials for "self-healing" computers, maybe...
that was me), now known as IBM e-Service, after many other projects
including point of sale applications, optical hand-writing recognition
systems, network appliance firmware, robotic manufacturing line
process control, and automation of engineering graphics systems. Other
phases of my professional career have seen me working for Weyerhauser,
GE, GTE, Ericsson, a MIDI firmware startup, a community radio
membership non-profit and a community radio station, a U.S. Senate
campaign, and a U.S. Presidential campaign. I've owned and operated
three art galleries, an indie-rock night club, and indie-rock record
label, and a recording studio. I have worked professionally in the
U.S., Canada, Scotland, England, Austria, Japan, China, and Vietnam.

My current work led me to the Triangle Zope and Python User Group
(TriZPUG), a central North Carolina community of primarily academic
Zope integrators. TriZPUG is a very loose organization which has
allowed me to host and sponsor a number of Python, Zope, and Plone
training events for over 500 participants during 10 week-long events.
One of those events was an eight day Zope 3 training conference and
sprint drawing over 80 participants from four continents. I also
worked for the Zope and Python User Group of Washington DC (ZPUGDC) to
host and sponsor the largest sprint in the history of Plone, drawing
156 participants. I am an elected member of the Plone Foundation and
serve on its Membership Committee. I proselytize the formation of Zope
User Groups and have assisted the start-up of several as,
notwithstanding the glamor of the greater international Zope
community, I believe the most rewarding open source camaraderie is
local. I love Zope people.

Despite having no commits to the Zope code base, I have always been
intrigued by the Zope Foundation's progress and have made repeated
inquiries if it would ever have a place for non-committers within its
individual members. I was recently very pleased to see changes in the
Zope Foundation bylaws which make that possible, a very healthy change
which demonstrates the growing experience and maturity of the Zope
community.

The Zope Foundation is at a critical juncture where it will soon
become an intellectual property conservator at the same time the
worldwide face of Zope and its perception are undergoing complex
changes. My hope is to provide good communications and transparency of
information for the Zope Foundation for the purpose of continuing to
build opportunities for stronger Zope community and acceptance. My
theory is that the more we can know about how something works, the
more we attract participation and mindshare. And that includes the
Zope community as well as the software. (This paragraph is all code
for, "I'd like to be your secretary but I have to run for a seat on
the Board in order to hope to do that.")

I feel my demonstrated organizational skills and experience in the
service of the Zope community can find their full utilization within
the Zope Foundation Board and I am grateful for my nomination. I am
somewhat at a disadvantage in that although I know a majority of ZF
members, I know there are some of you who don' t know me and I am not
a member of the ZF or this list. If you don't know me, please
correspond with me at cbc the at sign chriscalloway the dot mark org
so that I may know your concerns and questions before you vote. My
understanding is that a very fine group of people have been nominated
for the Zope Foundation Board this year. I feel I would work well with
any of the nominees and will endeavor to do so. No matter who you
elect this year, you will have a superlative Board.

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Sincerely,

Chris Calloway
http://www.secoora.org
office: 332 Chapman Hall   phone: (919) 599-3530
mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599



Tres.
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