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[Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo_bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----

> From: Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: KiCad Developers <kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: 
> Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2014 2:41 AM
> Subject: [Kicad-developers] New Project Leader
> 
> 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.
> 


Thanks for all your effort Dick; the project's in good shape for future
development and maintenance thanks largely to your work. I think all the
devs appreciate how difficult the work actually is; I've been looking at
the file I/O and various exporters/importers (VRML, IDF, DXF) for ages
thinking I could reorganize a few things as Wayne suggested about a year
ago, but I can see it's a big job that'll consume all my free time for
months on end so I've been putting it off and prioritizing other things.
You've accomplished a Herculean task and I for one am very grateful for
it; it's made my task of working with the KiCad source so much easier.

Welcome to the leadership role Wayne; I'm looking forward to seeing KiCad's
ongoing evolution.

- Cirilo