Thorny, Congratulations on your new position! I'm really committed to getting Fedora here, as it is the only game in town. I feel that I've pretty much won the hearts and minds of those who count here, but I also imagine that the Smithsonian adoption of Fedora will even further cement the wisdom.
I hope this move of yours might give us more opportunities to interact, although I"m sure you will be extraordinarily busy. Michael Levy ________________________________________ From: Thornton Staples [tstap...@fedora-commons.org] Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 4:42 PM To: fedora-commons-users@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Valorie Hollister Subject: [fcrepo-user] Changes In case you haven't seen the news at the DuraSpace blog (<http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/duraspace/2010/10/20/duraspace-community-outreach-update/>http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/duraspace/2010/10/20/duraspace-community-outreach-update/) I wanted to let you all know that I will be leaving DuraSpace on November 5th. I have accepted a position in the CIO's office at the Smithsonian Institution as the Director of Research and Scientific Data Management. I really don't see this as leaving the Fedora community, more as moving to another seat at the table. We will be using Fedora at the Smithsonian to begin to get a grip on all of the born digital information that is gushing out of their research activities. For those of you who think of the Smithsonian as a bunch of museums (19 and counting), you should know that there are many other research institutes, libraries, archives and a zoo that are all included, all of which are hemorrhaging digital information at an alarming rate. I am very interested in using the fruits of all of our labor to try to do something about that. I am proud to say that I am leaving the Fedora project and the DuraSpace organization at a point where they are both very strong, with tight, well-developed communities behind them. It has been a very interesting 10 years, that is for sure! The opportunity that the opening at the Smithsonian offered represents a chance to start over one more time before I retire. I am really interested in getting back to where I think that I am most useful, translating between researchers and techies. You certainly haven't seen the last of me. I intend to show up at many of the usual places, including Open Repositories in Austin, Texas<x-apple-data-detectors://2> next spring. Thorny ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Fedora-commons-users mailing list Fedora-commons-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fedora-commons-users
