What is the Scala Center Advisory Board
To quote @propensive,
The Advisory Board is a separate body from the Scala Center, much as many governments have separate legislative and executive branches: the Advisory Board makes recommendations to the Scala Center on the work we should do, but it’s the Scala Center’s job to execute those recommendations.
It currently has seven voting members: representatives from each of our six sponsors, plus Bill Venners, the community representative. Additionally the Executive Director of the Scala Center, Heather Miller, sits on the board to report on the Scala Center’s activities, and provide advice on the feasibility of the proposals under consideration, and Martin Odersky is the technical advisor to the board.
(from http://www.scala-lang.org/blog/2016/05/30/scala-center-advisory-board.html)
Proposal
The Advisory Board has invited us to nominate a member of the Typelevel community to serve as a community representative, alongside Bill Venners. After some brief private discussions, @milessabin and I decided that whether or not we should accept this offer and who we pick should be decided in the open. Initial feedback from the Board supports this.
Obligations
To quote @propensive again,
The time commitment would be approximately two hours of meeting time per quarter, plus the commitment to being visible as a representative of the community (which would be shared with Bill). Meetings would be mostly done over Google Hangouts (though we aim for one physical meeting a year, colocated with a conference), and the next meeting is planned for some time in second half of November.
Questions
- Should we accept this offer?
- If yes, who should we pick?
Provisions
@milessabin and me think that it would be a good idea for the Typelevel representative to rotate every once in a while. @odersky has confirmed that this would be acceptable under two conditions:
- The tenure should be at least one year to avoid having someone else at every other meeting.
- The Advisory Board needs to confirm each successor.
Note that both points also apply to the initial candidate.
Nominees
Feel free to nominate people in this thread, except for
who have privately expressed their preference not to be nominated (which is not a judgement on the proposal itself).