Well, it looks like the virtualization blogs jumped the gun the other day – following other peoples lead (yes, I’m a sheep) and not reading the vExperts web-page closely enough. I think many of us completely misunderstood the vExperts Program.

You see is a nomination process not an election/voting process. That is to say you only have to be nominated once to be considered and repeated nominations make no difference! The intention as an email and blogpost from John Troyer (who runs VMTN and related community initiaves) was to aviod merely creating a popularity contest. I can see John’s point.

Of course the first thing I did when vExperts was launched was nominate myself. This felt a bit wierd. A bit like when during the election you see the candidate voting for themselves. Like what the ****! So it does seem like vExperts will be coronation process where the great and the good will decided who’s getting with the program, and who ain’t. That’s fair enough I guess but it goes against my natural instinct as republican (small r, meaning I don’t really believe in the consituational monarchy we have here in the UK. The Queen, god bless her… where did I leave my Acme Guilotine?) and democrat (again with a small d). 

So accordingly, I’ve re-edit the original vExperts post – and in a wierdly Stalinist way edit the past so it fits more with my version of the future. I will be seeing the other vExperts shortly I hope in Room 101. Geddit?

This entry was posted on Saturday, January 17th, 2009 at 7:06 am and is filed under Other. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.