Congratulations, Barry! I'm very happy to hear that you can spend more time on Mailman.
I also learned by quick search that Canonical is founded by this nice guy. :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Shuttleworth Barry Warsaw wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello everyone, > > I just wanted to drop a quick note to let you know that I have > started working for Canonical, the folks who distribute Ubuntu Linux > and develop the Launchpad service for distributed open source > development. > > I'm quite excited to be working for Canonical. They are a Python and > Zope shop, very open source friendly, and based on Linux, so I'm > working in an environment that's both familiar and fun. They're also > a distributed company, without traditional offices, but with many > folks working all over the world. They're also hiring <wink, wink>. :) > > While this is good for Barry (and hopefully good for Canonical :), I > know you're thinking, "what does this mean for Mailman?" Well, I'm > glad you asked! > > Part of my official duties will be to integrate Mailman with > Launchpad so as to enable more powerful communication patterns among > members of a distributed development team. While I won't be > spending /all/ of my time on Mailman, it will be getting some > official love. I hope that this will help move the current > development branch closer to a release some time later this year. > Other than that, not much will really change. Mailman is and will > always be released under the GPL, and it will continue to be a GNU > project. > > If you have any questions or concerns, please send them directly to > me. I will attempt to answer them as best I can, and if there are > common themes, I'll post updates here. > > Thanks for your support and keep on delivering with Mailman! > > - -Barry > > Here are some related links: > > http://www.canonical.com > http://www.ubuntu.com > http://launchpad.net > > P.S. I'll be at PyCon this year so if you're coming too, please say hi! > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) > > iQCVAwUBRcUTb3EjvBPtnXfVAQIQKgP/XFVeeDBn6QVXkE9oK1YJxyrLZZET5GxT > TAvTJgfndkcWPuUpbC5D6hcpDNa6sfIgJnR3enoW7MgKpOAtIXTuXqPpNiFMBVT2 > qUhlDHhwYzdJWWyzI/oXGRvt0lMqqA69Iu7A6DAKrgksBB128V/mYxTfv8BPmF4W > uASb/9MkmAQ= > =h+IQ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Tokio Kikuchi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://weather.is.kochi-u.ac.jp/ ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp