Well this certainly comes as a surprise ... but congratulations on your new position! And unless Microsoft is more distributed than I realize, I hope that your move out to the Pacific Northwest will be as smooth and easy as possible. Perhaps this might even provide an opportunity for a visit to Portland in the not too distant future? :-)
All the best, Mark On Apr 3, 2009, at 12:20 PM, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote: > Some of you will have noticed that I have been conspicuously silent > over the last three or four weeks. I have spent much of that time > airborne, or in interviews at Google, Microsoft, and DARPA. > > After a fair bit of soul-searching, I have decided to accept a > fairly senior position at Microsoft associated with the Midori > project. The current plan has me starting there at the beginning of > August. > > This means, among other issues, that we will be wrapping up the BitC > project. While I will be trying hard to get all of the planned > features for the initial release completed before I depart, that may > not turn out to be possible. I have asked Microsoft if we can keep > the various web sites alive for archival access and the mailing > list, but I should also ask if there is anyone out there who would > be interested to assume more active stewardship of the BitC project. > I emphasize that unless management at Microsoft concludes otherwise, > I will no longer be able to participate actively in these > discussions. Also, in the event that MS does not permit archival > maintainence, would somebody be willing to take over hosting the > content? > > I have also asked MS for permission to publish papers about BitC on > my own time. They granted this permission to Swaroop, and I see no > reason that they should decline this, but my position there is a bit > more sensitive and they may see issues that I do not. > > In the meantime, I need to get back to packing and hacking. > > Best regards, > > > Jonathan > _______________________________________________ > bitc-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.coyotos.org/mailman/listinfo/bitc-dev _______________________________________________ bitc-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.coyotos.org/mailman/listinfo/bitc-dev
