Dear R lovers and other useRs,
notably benefactors, donors, supporting members and institutions
of the R foundation
http://www.r-project.org/foundation/
About 11.7 years ago, in April 2003, the R Foundation was
announced by Fritz Leisch,
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-announce/2003/000385.html
shortly after its foundation, and since then, its board has
lead the foundation during years of phenomenal growth and success.
Our thanks go to the *past* board members
Presidents: Robert Gentleman, Ross Ihaka
Secretary General: Friedrich Leisch
Treasurer: Kurt Hornik
Member at Large: John Chambers
In addition, Peter Dalgaard and Martin M?chler had acted as auditors.
After Summer meetings of the R Core and the R Foundation,
we, i.e., Robert Gentleman, on Sep. 15 announced
the new ("ordinary") memberships and the fact that the
membership of the foundation has grown to 29 persons:
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-announce/2014/000577.html
Subsequently (after a careful nomination and voting process),
the election of a new *board* finalized on December 1, and the
new board has started acting since.
It consists of
Presidents: Duncan Murdoch, Martyn Plummer
Secretary General: Martin M?chler
Treasurer: Kurt Hornik
Members at Large: John Chambers
Brian Ripley
Dirk Eddelbuettel
and the two auditors Peter Dalgaard and Roger Bivand.
This is very soon to be reflected on
http://www.r-project.org/foundation/board.html
The foundation and its board aim to become considerably more
active in the future. Details about this will be announced here
in due time.
Thank you all for supporting the R project, a Free Software
(hence Open source) endeavor only made possible by the dedicated
work of many thousands of volunteers and their contributions in several ways,
including to become supporting (or ++) members of the R foundation!
Martin Maechler
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