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[Peter Voorhees <peter@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dick, 

On behalf of all the grateful anonymous users/lurkers who watch the
list. 

Thank you for all your effort; we appreciate everything you've done on
our behalf and for our benefit.

All the best in your next endeavor. 

--Everyone

 
*"Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will
find an excuse in them to hang him." -- Cardinal Richelieu*

On Fri, Aug 22, 2014, at 12:41 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
> Ladies and Gentlemen:
> 
> With great respect and humility I am turning over KiCad project
> leadership to
> 
>    Mr. Wayne Stambaugh.
> 
> Wayne has established himself as a seasoned leader and software
> architect.
> 
> His software architectural skills and leadership skills make him in my
> opinion the best of
> available persons to fill this role.  We should hope and wish that he
> finds the job
> rewarding and fulfilling in a way that leads to an extended term in this
> volunteer position.
> 
> I obviously have confidence in his abilities, but I don't over estimate
> his staying power,
> nor should you.  Please be kind and respectful to him.
> 
> 
> It is time for me to move out of the top spot and off the mailing list.
> 
> 
> 
> I want to acknowledge Brian Sidebotham with special thanks for his faith
> in my leadership
> and his exceptional contributions in the realm of KiCad Winbuilder.  It
> was his faith in
> my vision that motivated him to do an unspeakable volunteer effort from
> which hundreds of
> KiCad users benefit.  While I thank him for his confidence in that vision
> of mine, you all
> should thank him for his actual time and leadership in making KiCad on
> Windows worth
> using.  His efforts in promoting CMake as a build engine warrant industry
> and world-wide
> acclaim and he is due a bonus from Kitware.
> 
> 
> I want to acknowledge and thank Fabrizio Tappero, who's graphics/icons,
> and user manual
> efforts should go down as some of the most important contributions in
> KiCad's history.
> 
> 
> I want to acknowledge and thank Carl Poirier who is overseeing what is
> quickly becoming a
> world-wide resource.  At my egging, he stepped up and is now overseeing
> what is becoming
> something truly exceptional along with the efforts of generous
> contributors.  I wish him
> the best, I encourage him to be a leader and encourager among reluctant
> volunteers. I am
> proud to have been an inspiration in something that he can proudly put on
> his resume some day.
> 
> 
> I want to thank Javier Serano, whose confidence in our project direction
> and leadership
> inspired him to join and bring in some additional world class talent and
> team players, Tom
> and Orson, as well as KiCad team leadership and seasoned experience.
> 
> 
> Lastly I want to thank Jean-Pierre for his friendship, for his faith and
> confidence in my
> sometimes loud and brash leadership.  But were it not for his stabilizing
> influence in all
> things KiCad, we'd all be making less PCB boards, or doing them more
> expensively.
> 
> 
> Please take care of my good friend Wayne Stambaugh.  I have prayed with
> Wayne, I know his
> son.  You could not have a better man at the helm.
> 
> 
> Appreciation goes a long way towards keeping this project healthy, and
> for it to be
> healthy you need a class act at the top, you have one in Wayne.
> 
> 
> Dick
> 
> 
> P.S.
> 
> *) The project has SoftPLC Corporation's permission to re-license its
> copyrights under GPL3.
> 
> *) When somebody other than superman Jean-Pierre surpasses this number of
> commits:
>    $ bzr log | grep 'dickelbeck\|Hollenbeck' | wc -l
> send me a personal note and I'll send him a congratulatory memo.  :)
> 
> *) It would be nice if the kicad-pcb.org website listed SoftPLC
> Corporation as a
> historically significant corporate sponsor.
> 
> 
> Out.
> 
> 
> 
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