[Biojava-dev] Leadership

[Andreas Prlic]

Hi Richard,

Again, thanks for your BioJava contributions in the last years and
great to have you still around.

I am looking forward to the next year of BioJava development. Our
google analytics stats reveal that we have an ever growing user base
and it will be a challenge to continue developing BioJava further and
add new and useful features. Of course this is a task that I can't do
alone and I will need the help of everybody who wants to write
documentation, submit bug fixes or wants to become maintainer of one
of the modules.

With BioJava 1.7 being out it is now a good time to start a discussion
at how to improve the code base for the next version.

We also have BOSC coming up in June and it will provide a good
opportunity for people to meet in person.

Hope to see you (Richard, and everybody else!) in Sweden, otherwise we
will keep talking via the lists.

Andreas




On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 1:33 AM, Richard Holland
<holland at eaglegenomics.com> wrote:
> Hello again.
>
> Well, nobody objected, and several people supported the idea, so I would
> now like to formally hand over control of the BioJava project to Andreas
> Prlic with immediate effect.
>
> It's been good fun working with the project over the last 5 years, and
> although I'll no longer be in charge, I will still remain on the mailing
> lists and contribute code/ideas/bugfixes/etc. whenever I get the chance.
>
> I'll also continue to attend BOSC, including this year in Stockholm, so
> I'm looking forward to meeting up with everyone there for a beer or two.
>
> Thanks for the help and support everyone's given, and I'm sure you'll
> join me in wishing Andreas the best of luck with the project. He'll be
> an excellent leader and with him in charge I believe the project will go
> from strength to strength.
>
> cheers,
> Richard
>
> --
> Richard Holland, BSc MBCS
> Finance Director, Eagle Genomics Ltd
> T: +44 (0)1223 654481 ext 3 | E: holland at eaglegenomics.com
> http://www.eaglegenomics.com/
>