TPF Committee Updates

We've been reviewing Perl Foundation committees over the last few months and I'm happy to report some new people have stepped into committee leadership roles. David Oswald is the new conferences committee chair. This position had gone vacant for a period as TPF Treasurer Dan Wright along with others took a more active role in planning for The Perl Conference. The board is happy to once again have someone in this role to help spread the work and responsibilities. David was one of the lead organizers of YAPC::NA 2015 in Salt Lake City. He is also on the organizing team for the [OpenWest](https://www.openwest.org/) open source conference. We're confident David's experience will help with this year's [Perl Conference](http://www.perlconference.us/tpc-2017-dc/) and with planning going forward. Will Coleda is the new Secretary of the Grants Committee. Will has been a member of the Grants Committee since 2008, and involved with the Perl 6 community and development for over a decade. Will's selection is a great example of the cycle of involvement for a TPF member, starting as a committee member and then taking on a bigger role over time. The outgoing secretary, Makoto Nozaki, has held this position since February 2014 and he will continue his work as Perl Foundation board Secretary. As part of our committee review, I have also been looking into other committees that have recently been less active or inactive. As a result, the Steering Committee is being sunsetted. The Steering Committee was originally created as a forum to pull in more active community members to carry out TPF business in the earlier years of the foundation when the board was much less active. When Karen Pauley, who was Steering Committee Chair, took over as president, this activity moved to the board. New committees also were created to handle specific areas of activity like conferences, grants, and marketing. With TPF activity moving to these other groups, the Steering Committee has been largely dormant so we're dissolving it. Thanks to all of the members who contributed their time to TPF through this committee. Another committee we are evaluating is the Community Advocacy Committee. This committee was driven for many years by Ya'akov Sloman and we thank him for all of this efforts. He stepped down last year and the committee has been mostly inactive, so we are considering dissolving it as well. However, the board is open to proposals to revive the committee if community members are available to come forward. The [committee charter is available](http://www.perlfoundation.org/community_advocacy_committee_charter) for review and could be revised by new members if desired. Please join us in congratulating and thanking David and Will as they take on their new roles. You can expect to hear more from them in the near future.

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I do thank David and Will for their service, as I thank all the volunteers in the Perl Foundation. As an aside, I wish the home page of the TPF could be made current, especially events and contact info for TPF personnel.



I should have looked at home the page before commenting. It has been brought more up-to-date than the last time I looked (last week). Thanks!

