Several folks have asked who is staying on for the next phase — who is remaining on the staff.

Mimi Yin continues on as our Product Designer, Sheila Mooney in Program and Product Management, and Jared Rhine running the Hub Service. Jared will add more IT responsibilities, as well as build and release responsibilities to his plate. Mimi, Jared and Sheila will also be helping me with a wide variety of tasks for the organization, as one might expect on a small team.

Grant Baillie, Jeffrey Harris, Brian Kirsch, Randy Letness and Travis Vachon are all developers on the new staff. Phillip Eby continues to have a contracting relationship with OSAF, and is actively participating in strategy discussions with the team. Grant, Jeffrey and Brian had recently been working on the desktop team, Randy and Travis on the server team. Travis was an intern on the desktop team a few summers back, and Brian worked on the server team a few years ago. Going forward, developers will move around and tackle code on either code base depending on what is needed.

For the time being we’ll have a flat organization, and think of ourselves as one team. (Previously we were organized in server, desktop, qa, product, build/release and management teams). We’ve ended all of our older recurring meetings, and now have one daily sync up with the 10 people noted above. We’re currently doing this on the phone while we get our footing, but may eventually transition to IRC.

You should start seeing more posts on this blog about strategy and overall direction. We’re also starting to getting back into the groove of working on the lists.

I’d also like to emphasize that Chandler Project is bigger than these 10 staff members. Several former staff members intend to remain involved in the project. Andi Vajda will continue to maintain PyLucene and PyICU. Heikki Toivonen and Philippe Bossut will continue with Finnish and French translations. Heikki will continue to maintain M2Crypto. I continue to appreciate the counsel of Phillipe and Ted Leung, and am looking to find ways for them to be involved in an advisory capacity. Others have mentioned wanting to remain involved as well — I’m sure new roles will unfold as the next phase shakes out. Chandler Project also includes contributors like Andre Mueninghoff and Davor Cubranic, who helped immensely in getting out our Preview release. We also really appreciate all the users who speak up on the chandler-users list. We look forward to the project growing, even with a smaller paid staff.