Thorny, It's been a lot of fun working with you to bring the Fedora architecture into the world -- from your and Ross Wayland's prototype at UVA, to the Mellon-funded joint project with Cornell, and finally into a strong, community-based open source project at DuraSpace. I would say we're going to miss you immensely, but I know you'll be sticking around as a well-respected voice in the community. As long as we're regularly subjected to phrases like "hemmorhaging digital information at an alarming rate", I'll know you're not far away. Best of luck in your new position.
- Chris On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Thornton Staples <tstap...@fedora-commons.org> wrote: > In case you haven't seen the news at the DuraSpace blog > (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 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
