From: Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@transmeta.com> To: lsb-discuss@lists.linuxbase.org Subject: New LSB Chairman Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 23:55:14 -0800 (PST) To everyone, I am pleased to announce that George Kraft will be taking over as the chairman of the Linux Standard Base. Shortly after we started the recent Ft. Lauderdale meeting, I nominated George to assume the chair and he was elected unanimously. In June of last year, George Kraft became project manager of the LSB specification working group. As chairman, George will continue to coordinate the development of the LSB specification effort, working with Stuart Anderson, the editor and architect of the LSB specification, and the other LSB team leaders. Now, it's also his job to make sure everything gets done (and done right). George has been effectively running the LSB for some months, so the real change is that he's getting the recognition that he deserves. To share some of George's background, he is professionally and philosophically a UNIX/Linux software engineer. He has been developing on UNIX since 1982, when he started college, and using GNU/Linux off and on since 1993. He primarily worked in the commands and libraries space in the production of SunOS, BSD, and Dynix for Purdue University, Sys V.3 for Texas Instruments, AIX 3.X-4.X for IBM, NetBSD 1.4, and Linux for IBM's Network Station thin client. At one time, he was the UNIX team leader for CAD Framework Initiative which was an Electronic Design Automation standards body that spun off of MCC in Austin. I will now be focusing more on the Free Standards Group, the LSB parent corporation, as well as my other standards activities: the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, the Linux Development Platform Specification, and helping with parts of the LSB. Since I started with the LSB in 1998, I think we've come a long way -- we survived some early troubles, we're part of a non-profit consortium created specifically for open source standards, we've gathered a large group of participants from nearly every corner of the Linux community, and most important of all, we've nearly finished a complete base standard for Linux, including a specification and a test suite. Certainly, the change is not news if you've read the minutes on the web site or if you were at the meeting, but I wanted to let everyone else know about the change and also to point out that we're very lucky to have George on board. Please treat him well. :-) - Dan