World: r3wp

Let it be known:


As my role as Secretary of user.r, the International REBOL User Association, 
it with great honour that I hereby announce that

Ashley G Trüter is named the 2008 user.r   rebol Of The Year.


Congratulations Ashley for the well deserved honour and the members 
of user.r would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your 
contributions, both personal and professional, to the world of REBOL 
development.


For those that may not know, Ashley is the author of many great software 
frameworks including RebGUI, RebDB and a SQLite driver.  He consistently 
displays a level of kind professionalism that makes him more than 
worthy to receive the first ever rebol of the year award.

Cheers mate.

Brian Tiffin
user.r Secretary

For hes a jolly good fellow, for hes a jolly good fellow........

Congrats Ashley!

I'd like to formally nominate Nenad Rakocevic, (DocKimbel) for the 
prestigious award of user.r rebol Of The Year, 2009.

Brian Tiffin

Thanks for kicking off the user.r rebol of the year award.

DocKimbel would be a worthy winner: no question of that.


To make it more of a competition than last year, I'd like to formally 
nominate another person who'd also be a worthy winner for his excellent 
work in moving R3 forward while maintaining impeccable contact with 
the sometimes impatient developers:
  
====>    Brian Hawley

Why not one for R2 and one for R3?
Both have their merits in their field.

good suggestion, as I will have big difficulcy to vote one or the 
other :-)

I'd like to nominate: Henrik

The 2009 roty will be a contest.  Details regarding a good and proper 
(REBOL) voting system will be posted shortly.  Anyone wishing to 
discuss the possibilities is invited to put ideas forward in user.r 
Chat.

Congratulations to the current nominees.

A belated but big thankyou to all for last year's nomination and 
kind words.

Is there any voting criteria for this year's award (eg. technical, 
advocacy, popularity, most posts, etc) ;)

I would like to propose there be (a small number of ) categories. 
 then we can open up the voting to something a bit less abstract 
as the single most REBOLer.

Please excuse my jumping of the gun.  I bypassed the normal Bob's 
Rules.   Nominations should be seconded before acceptance.  Someone 
kindly pointed out this oversight.


So, I'd like to formally second the motion to nominate Brian Hawley. 
  It may not be fair for me to second the nomination for Henrik, 
and I'll wait to see if someone seconds Doc's nomination.

Thanks to everyone for participating.

I'll second Doc's nomination :)

I second BrianH's

I'happily second Henrik.

I think we should have more categories .. like the Emmys

For the 2009 roty's I'd like to propose a nomination deadline of 
November 10th, 2009.

For reference; nominees include Doc, Brian, Henrik.


I'd also like to offer congratulations and thanks; a sentiment that 
I am sure is shared by others.

It wasn't seconded ... Bob's rules say I shouldn't raise any points 
until someone / everyone else gets to speak. If I'm not mistaken, 
nominations can still be made (or a second occurs a split hair second 
before 11 Nov 2009 UTC).

Seconded.

Motion to open the floor to suggestions and discussions as to an 
appropriate voting system.

Motion to implement a voting system using Gregg's codebase posted 
to user.r Chat on Wednesday December 23rd.


It's REBOL, it's open, but seems hidden enough to alleviate influence 
decisions based on previous voters, and timelines are now short.


Please note.  Unless someone motions disapproval before or after 
the seconding, but before January 1st, 2010, this motion is worded 
to bypass user.r Formal democracy and go straight to user.r implementation 
the moment the motion is seconded.

Bahnhof

I'd second your motion, but I have a conflict of interest. :-)

Seconded.

Point of Information;  The user.r 2009 roty vote code.

vote: func [name] [

    enbase/base encloak head change head insert/dup copy "" " " 16 form 
    name "roty" 64
]


Please use that function, capture the output and post your vote to 
    user.r Chat


Due to encryption issues please use   'doc, 'brianh, 'henrik, for 
Nenad Rakocevic , Brian Hawley and Henrik Mikael Kristensen.

Bumping...
Vote counting will start on Monday?

Works for me.

Accepting Gregg's response as a second, for a call to end voting; 
 I'd like to motion that we tally up the votes as per the user.r 
Chat example.  Thanks to all participants, and best of luck to our 
candidates.

Brian Hawley has been voted the 2009 rebol Of The Year.  Congratulations. 
 Thanks to the other nominees and all participants.

Motion to open Nominations for the 2010 user.r rebol Of The Year 
awards.

So hard to choose. I'll nominate by category

R2 - NickA
R3 - Henrik
R2+R3 - BrianH

I nominate Robert Muench.

All the guys working on R3 really deserve to be recognized for their 
talent and determination.

+1

We'll all pitch in and have someone geographically close to each 
key player get them a nice beverage of their choosing.

Sorry, I'm new who are the nominees ? When the vote is closed ?

I'd like to nominate Nenad Rakocevic for 2010's rebol Of The Year.


As a reminder, for Bob's Rules, this nomination will require a second.

I'd like to propose a round table vote of acceptance of the voting 
code and procedures posted to user.r Chat, by Sunanda. A negative 
outcome would hopefully be followed by new proposals and discussion.

I'll second the nomination for Robert Muench.

I'll second Nenad Rakocevic

I'd like to nominate Nick Antonaccio.....for his newcomer friendly 
initiatives [Learn REBOL articles, REBOLforum microblog]

I second Nick.

I'll nominate Dockimbel ;-) and also Nick Antonaccio

He's been nominated already; his name is Nenad Rakocevic.

Oui je sais :-) I have problems to understand correctly english...

Point of Information:  Recapping current nominations.  Robert Muench, 
Nenad Rakocevic, Nick Antonaccio.  Participants are encouraged to 
get nomincations in for seconding before December 15th.  Starting 
a vote pass by Dec 15th should give everyone a chance to get in a 
vote before the end of Dec 31st.

Point of information.  Due to time constraints; the motion to vote 
on a rebol Of The Year counts as dead on the table, unseconded.

I'd like to propose we accept Sunanda's user.r chat REBOL voting 
code and method.  If no one raises issue, it will be deemed official 
on Dec 15th, and instructions for participation posted.  Voting is 
scheduled to end with 2010, Greenwich Mean Time.

I second Henrik.