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title : Scala Center Appoints Community Representative
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- At Scala Days, the Scala Center will hold its first Advisory Board meeting. The
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- Advisory Board comprises primarily of delegates from our sponsors. But, we
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- exist as an organization to support the * entire* Scala community, so for that
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- reason, our founding documents allow for a "community representative" to sit on
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- the board; someone who can speak for the whole community.
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+ At Scala Days, the [ Scala Center] ( https://scala.epfl.ch/ ) will hold its first
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+ Advisory Board meeting. The Advisory Board comprises primarily of delegates
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+ from our sponsors. But, we exist as an organization to support the * entire*
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+ Scala community, so for that reason, our founding documents allow for a
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+ "community representative" to sit on the board; someone who can speak for the
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+ whole community.
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+ ## A Community Representative
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Who should fulfil the role of community representative is an important choice
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for The Scala Center to make. The Scala community needs someone independent,
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delighted to announce today that Bill has accepted our invitation, and will be
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the community representative on the Advisory Board.
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- Bill is best known as the author of the ScalaTest testing framework and
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- co-author of the Programming in Scala book, soon to have its third edition
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- published. But he also develops the Scalactic library, is a frequent speaker at
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- Scala conferences, and offers training in Scala through Artima and Escalate
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- Software.
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+ Bill is best known as the author of the [ ScalaTest] ( http://www.scalatest.org/ )
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+ testing framework and co-author of the Programming in Scala book, soon to have
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+ its third edition published. But he also develops the Scalactic library, is a
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+ frequent speaker at Scala conferences, and offers training in Scala through
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+ [ Artima] ( http://www.artima.com/ ) and [ Escalate
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+ Software] ( http://www.escalatesoft.com/ ) .
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Bill has a long history of involvement in Scala, and I remember back to the
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early days of Scala's development when Bill would take the time to engage in
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