From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jun 15 05:50:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA03630 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 05:50:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from localhost.my.domain (ppp1580.on.bellglobal.com [206.172.249.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA03586 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 05:50:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ac199@hwcn.org) Received: from localhost (tim@localhost) by localhost.my.domain (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA00269; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 08:51:02 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ac199@hwcn.org) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.my.domain: tim owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 08:51:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek X-Sender: tim@localhost Reply-To: ac199@hwcn.org To: Michael Hancock cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: John Dyson Moves On In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Michael Hancock wrote: > Yikes, resigned! I would have like to have heard a sabbatical to cool > off. Resigned sounds very final, but the suddenness make it also sound > like an emotional decision. Indeed, I was a little surprised, too. :-) However, even though it's not really appropriate to begin any accolades before whatever announcement John makes (if he feels like making one), I don't think anyone will begrudge an exception in this case. ;-) John Dyson has, needless to say, done a tremendous job handling the subtlities of FreeBSD's inner workings, helping design perhaps the best VM system in existance, but beyond that, he has often participated in the FreeBSD newsgroups and mailing-lists. He has been willing to answer questions and explain what, to the other party, at least, must have seemed the inexplicable. As far as I can tell he has always answered and responded to any complaints -current users have. If it wasn't for Dyson, we wouldn't have bounce buffers! Not only has he been a tremendous help within FreeBSD, but he has always been willing (if occasionally too willing ;-) to stand-up for FreeBSD on the outside, preaching the good news to any who will listen. Of late, he has often been seen on -chat encouraging other advocates of FreeBSD. I can remember John saying in the newsgroups that he was confident that if he should ever leave the FreeBSD project, people would step-up to fill his place. John will be missed, but now is our time to justify the confidence he placed in us. I guess this means that dg will finally have to pull his weight around here. ;-) ;-) ;-) -- This .sig is not innovative, witty, or profund. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message