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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