[Bioperl-l] BioPerl leadership additions

[Mauricio Herrera Cuadra]

Congrats Chris & Sendu! Very well-deserved. Keep up the great work.

Cheers!
Mauricio.

Jason Stajich wrote:
> Dear BioPerl Users and Developers,
> 
> I want to announce a addition in the leadership of BioPerl.   
> Christopher Fields and and Sendu Bala are now members of the BioPerl  
> Core developer group to recognize their ongoing leadership in the  
> project.  Chris and Sendu were instrumental in the 1.5.2 Developer  
> release and have made a significant commitment and contribution to  
> the quality of the code and the documentation of the project.  We  
> have invited them to be part of the core to recognize their work and  
> to feel comfortable to ask them to do more. ;-)
> 
> The Core group was established to insure that someone was responsible  
> for making code releases, vetting new developers for CVS write  
> accounts, and generally dealing with things that might otherwise slip  
> through the cracks.  We are very excited to have more people  
> contributing to and maintaining the toolkit.  We look forward to  
> their help along with all the other developers, as we work towards a  
> 1.6 release release this year.
> 
> As always, while their is a need for some individuals to lead the  
> project, we encourage contributions from all levels of expertise to  
> improve the code, documentation, and tutorials of the project.
> 
> We plan to discuss the progress of the toolkit at this year's  
> Bioinformatics Open Source Conference held in Vienna, Austria in  
> conjunction with the SIG meetings at ISMB.   We are trying to use  
> BOSC 2007 as a chance for the developers of Open Bioinformatics  
> Foundation sponsored and related projects to coordinate future  
> development and release cycles.
> 
> Jason Stajich on behalf of the Core developers
> 
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MAURICIO HERRERA CUADRA
arareko at campus.iztacala.unam.mx
Laboratorio de Genética
Unidad de Morfofisiología y Función
Facultad de Estudios Superiores Iztacala, UNAM