OSAF would like to welcome Brian Kirsch, our ‘go to’ person for making email happen in Chandler. This includes everything from an architectural role in deciding how to integrate email to evaluating existing code for communicating with e-mail servers, making fix/build decisions, and hooking these to the networking and data repository frameworks. He is very excited to be dedicating himself fulltime to open source as the Email Guy for Chandler.

OSAF would like to welcome David Surovell our new GUI Frameworks Software Engineer. David is a veteran software developer, having (co-) designed, developed and/or maintained several software products, services and tools for companies large and small. He considers himself platform-neutral and has written books and articles on graphics software development techniques. He joins OSAF eager to contribute to his first major open source development project.

We have revised and reposted the position of Quality Assurance Engineer. Please see the Employment page on the OSAF website for details for all the positions we have open.

OSAF would like to welcome Lisa Dusseault our new Development Manager and Standards Architect. Lisa comes to OSAF from Xythos, an Internet startup where she was development manager for four years. She has also been an IETF contributor on various Internet applications protocols for eight years, and will continue to do this kind of work at OSAF. She currently chairs the XMPP (Jabber) and WebDAV Working Groups.