Shiro Kawai has accepted a nomination to the Scheme Steering Committee.

Location: Honolulu, HI, USA
Affiliation: Scheme Arts, LLC

Statement:

> Thank you for nominating me to the Scheme Steering Committee.
> I encountered Scheme more than three decades ago and was immediately
> captivated by its simplicity and expressiveness.
> Since then, Scheme has been my primary tool, used both
> for sketching and exploring ideas and building production software,
> including CGI film production toolchains.
> I developed my own Scheme implementation, Gauche,
> as a platform for actively trying out new language ideas and
> applying them to practical problems.  To this day, I actively
> develop Gauche, incorporating most of the new SRFIs
> as well as selected ideas from other programming languages.
>
> I appreciate the collective effort of past Scheme standardization efforts
> to improve the language, and I have been glad to be able to participate
> in the R6RS and R7RS standardization processes as well as
> a number of SRFI discussions.
> Unlike many other languages, Scheme has evolved cautiously, driven
> by consensus and compatibility.  If elected,
> I would like to help preserve this approach
> while also maintaining momentum toward expanding the reach of Scheme.