[yocto-ab] Stepping back

[Mills, William]

Jeffro,

Thank you for your tireless service to this project.  You have always been helpful to the AB, the project, and wide community and someone we all trusted to organize us.

All,

It was the AB that named Jeffro as AB Chair and it needs to be the AB that names a successor.  Intel has offered Travis Broughton as AB Chair pro tem.

Texas Instruments would like to nominate Philip Balister as AB Chair.  

Philip has been with the project since the very beginning and with Open Embedded long before that.  Philip is our OE representative and has served in that role very well.  I think Philip will do well in the AB Chair role as well.

I, of course, have spoken to Philip to ensure he is OK with this and he agreed that he can help the project in this way.

Let's plan to discuss this on Monday's meeting.

Thank you,
Bill

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From: yocto-ab-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto-ab-bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Osier-mixon, Jeffrey
Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2018 2:42 AM
To: yocto-ab at yoctoproject.org
Subject: [yocto-ab] Stepping back

Hi folks - It is with mixed feelings that I am resigning my position on the YP Advisory Board as chair. I have helmed the chairship since our first meeting at ELC in 2011, and it is time for someone else to pick up the gavel. I am also handing off my community management activities as I am taking on a new role at Intel. One of my compatriots at Intel, Travis Broughton, has offered to step in as chair pro tem to manage board meetings and votes going forward. Some of you may know Travis already, as he has been involved with a number of recent LF project launches.

Community issues or questions that involve infrastructure should go to Michael Halstead. Event-related issues will be handled by Lieu Ta. Technical questions and concerns should go directly to the Yocto Project mailing list. And if you are able to dive in and help with community management, as so many of you have done over the years, please talk to Lieu to coordinate.

It has been a distinct pleasure working with each and every one of you. The Yocto Project has grown to represent a foundational standard in the embedded systems world and has helped to promote embedded Linux in an industry that is well known for being insular. It is a triumph for the developers and the organizations that support it - every representative on this board should be proud of the progress made and the support you have provided to this very popular and stable project. I very much look forward to seeing it vault into the next chapter.

Jeffrey "Jefro" Osier-Mixon, Intel Corporation
Open Source Community Ecosystem Strategist


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