I was contacted by a board member of the Zope Foundation and told I had been nominated to stand for election to
the Zope Foundation Board. I replied the same day that I accepted the nomination.<br><br>At some stage I was removed from this mailing list and missed all communications about the election. I was reinstated to this list a few
hours ago. <br><br>I didn't write a candidate statement was because I was removed from this list. <br><br>I would have written something a candidate statement something like this. I co-founded the OzZope Australian mailing list in 2001. There were some very busy years organising sprints and events. However in recent times my efforts for the Zope community have been mainly helping Zope companies find developers and helping developers find Zope jobs. Although not a developer I built a database in the mid 90's for the radio program I produced. This was then copied by other program teams throughout the building. Since then I have participated in or observed numerous open source software projects. I would like to see open source software extend its profile beyond the developer community.<br>
<br>Most possibly the election result would have not been altered had I had access to this list and had the same chance as the other candidates. Who knows, there's always next year. Let's not waste precious time and energy pondering why I and others were removed from this list. Let us move forward and let the elected representatives show us what they can do to strengthen the Zope Community.<br>
<br>(Ms) Jan V Smith<br>Vice President<br>Computerbank Victoria<br><a href="http://computerbank.org.au/" target="_blank">http://computerbank.org.au/</a><br><br><br>