I am very pleased to report that Matt Caswell, a current part time OpenSSL team member, will be reporting for duty as a full time dedicated OpenSSL resource beginning November 10.
It has taken a small eternity in tedious aggravation to make the necessary legal and accounting arrangements (which are even now not entirely complete), but we are putting the donations that came our way in the wake of the "Heartbleed" publicity to good use. We have calculated that the donation funding in hand, plus that promised but uncollected, plus revenue from our software support contracts, will suffice to support this new full time position and eventually one other as well. Matt is leaving a successful commercial career to join the two current full time resources, Steve Henson and Andy Polyakov, who are funded via the Linux Foundation Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII). Unlike those two CII funded positions, Matt will be entirely funded by direct donations from individual contributors, sponsors of various types, and support contract customers. The list of such supporters is a long one, and some of them have requested anonymity, but I would like to thank Smartisan, Huawei, and Akamai in particular. -Steve M. -- Steve Marquess OpenSSL Software Foundation, Inc. 1829 Mount Ephraim Road Adamstown, MD 21710 USA +1 877 673 6775 s/b +1 301 874 2571 direct marqu...@opensslfoundation.com marqu...@openssl.com gpg/pgp key: http://openssl.com/docs/0x6D1892F5.asc ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Announcement Mailing List openssl-announce@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
