- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 02:42:29 -0800
- To: "Iñigo" <inigo.medina@toprural.com>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org, "Sam Ruby" <rubys@us.ibm.com>
I, for one, welcome our new HTML overlord. Seriously though, congrats Sam and looking forward to working with you. / Jonas On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:29 AM, Iñigo <inigo.medina@toprural.com> wrote: > Congratulations Sam! :-) > > iñigo > > 2008/12/15 Michael(tm) Smith <mike@w3.org> >> >> This is an announcement to let everybody know that effective >> January 5, there will be a change in the leadership for the HTML >> Working Group. Sam Ruby has been appointed as a new co-chair by >> the W3C Director, Tim Berners-Lee, and will be joining Chris >> Wilson in that role next month; at that time, I'll be returning to >> my previous role as the W3C staff contact for the group. >> >> A little background about Sam: I'd guess that many of you already >> know a bit about Sam -- but you can find more details here: >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Ruby >> >> Some highlights about Sam that I think are particularly relevant >> to the group: >> >> - he was an early adopter of HTML5 (take a look at the source >> for his personal site: http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/) >> >> - he's a member of the html5lib project: >> http://code.google.com/p/html5lib/ and developed the initial >> port of html5lib to the Ruby programming language >> >> - he was very closely involved with the specification for the >> Atom syndication format (RFC 4287) from pretty much the very >> earliest days of its (pre)development >> >> - he is a Director and Vice President of the Apache Software >> Foundation, and former chairman of the Apache Jakarta project, >> and has made code contributions to a number of the Apache >> Software Foundation's open-source software projects >> >> I'm very happy that we've been able to get Sam on in a leadership >> role with the group, and I'm looking forward to working closely >> with him and Chris both after he starts in that role on January 5. >> >> I'll hope you'll join me in extending a very warm welcome to him. >> >> --Mike >> >> -- >> Michael(tm) Smith >> http://people.w3.org/mike/ >> > > > > -- > Iñigo Medina García > Tecnología > > http://www.toprural.com > Tu guía de turismo rural >
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