Elections coming up
The current Squeak Foundation (SqF) board will be stepping down in February 2006. Elections will be held to select the new board members.

After the “Castaways coup” formed last year, a lot has happened. And a lot hasn’t happened, but most of us know that we’re on a long journey here. And in the light of the venerable age of the Squeak system, what’s a year more or less?

In any case, we promised to disband the group this February latest. It seems to us that there is a genuine need for a board, even though there is no legal entity called “the Squeak Foundation” yet, so it’s time to select new people, this time with hopefully more democratic backing than the current group. Luckily, for continuity, it looks like most current members haven’t exhausted their energy yet (although I would think that most are quite close to it), which means that the first 5 candidates are known.

I hope that people especially from the large Squeak communities in Asia and Latin-America will feel compelled to step up as candidate - a board selected from a diverse candidacy by a large number of Squeakers will be a group with a strong mandate to continue in helping the Squeak community at large take shape.

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