[Dev] Mitchell's role

[Mitchell Baker]

I currently have two roles at OSAF: part-time employee focused on 
community relations and a member of the Board.   In addition, I've been 
the general manager of the Mozilla project for a number of years.  In 
July of 2003 I also took on the role of President of the Mozilla 
Foundation, the independent non-profit organization we formed -- with 
significant help from Mitch Kapor, to whom I am indebted -- to help 
guide the project into a new phase.  After long consideration, I have 
reluctantly concluded that I cannot continue with all three roles. 

In the meantime, Ted Leung has become an exceedingly effective catalyst 
for Chandler's community development and community relations 
activities.   Ted has spear-headed our effort to distribute the 
Community Relations function through-out the Chandler engineering 
organization through the Developer Platform goals.  A number of Chandler 
developers are also involved with other open source projects now (Andi 
with PyLucene, Brian with Twisted, David Surovell as well as Robin Dunn 
with wxWidgets, Heikki Toivenon wit m2Crypto, as well as Ted with the 
Apache Software Foundation) and this is further strengthening the open 
source nature of Chandler development.

I have therefore concluded that the demands of the Mozilla project are 
such that I must focus my energies there rather than as an OSAF 
employee.  I will remain on the OSAF Board of Directors and will 
contribute through that role, and plan to remain a resource to the many 
excellent colleagues at OSAF and the broader Kapor-Klein Inter- Entity 
Group.  I have a few projects to finish at OSAF, which I hope to wrap up 
in January and make the transition as of February 1.   I am exceedingly 
grateful to Mitch for his support of my work at OSAF and with the 
Mozilla project.

Mitchell