From jwagener@amoco.com Fri Jun 4 05:17:47 1993 Received: from interlock.amoco.com by dkuug.dk with SMTP id AA01307 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Fri, 4 Jun 1993 17:17:46 +0200 Received: by interlock.amoco.com id AA08390 (InterLock SMTP Gateway 1.1 for SC22WG5@dkuug.dk); Fri, 4 Jun 1993 10:10:47 -0500 Received: by interlock.amoco.com (Internal Mail Agent-2); Fri, 4 Jun 1993 10:10:47 -0500 Received: by interlock.amoco.com (Internal Mail Agent-1); Fri, 4 Jun 1993 10:10:47 -0500 Date: Fri, 4 Jun 93 10:17:47 CDT Message-Id: <9306041517.AA19349@trc.amoco.com> From: Jerrold L. Wagener To: SC22WG5@dkuug.dk Subject: some changing of the guard X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 To X3J3 - This is to thank Maureen Hoffert and Andrew Tait for their contributions to Fortran and X3J3. As vice chair Maureen has tremendously improved the organization of the committee documents, procedures, and membership matters - somehow she made that all work better, and made it easier on the committee, than I was ever able to achieve as vice chair. Thanks very much Maureen for that contribution, and for interesting instigations such as forward references; we'll not soon forget those lively moments. Andrew has done an outstanding job managing the interpretations work and editing the 006 document. It's my recollection that before defect management Andrew specialized in I/O, an area that many of us tend to shun somewhat and therefore epecially appreciate those who shoulder that particular yoke. I wish both Maureen and Andrew well in their post-Fortran lives, and of course would be eager to welcome them back should they decide to return to the fold some day. But the work goes on. As you know, Rich Kelble will assume the vice chair responsibilities; in addition, Janice Shepherd has agreed to take responsibility for managing the interpretation work for X3J3. When we evolve to just a single subgroup for handling the interpretations, Janice will head that subgroup - in the meantime she will see that all of the interpretation requests are identified, cataloged, assigned to the appropriate subgroups, etc. Beginning with the next letter ballot (more on that in a minute) the letter ballots on 006 items will be conducted entirely by email. That way Janice and I can both have convenient access to the comments, which will facilitate our collaboration on analyzing the results of the letter ballot. The next letter ballot on 006 items will be following the Brussels meeting in July. The time is short between the May and July meetings, but ample between the July and November meetings, so the post-Brussels letter ballot will contain the items made ballot-ready at both the May and July meetings. Janice will not be the editor of the 006 document, so volunteers are solicited. In the meantime I will serve as 006 editor (I've done a lot of that anyway, on the ballot items, in order to get the ballot out soon after the meeting). Ideally the editor would be able to prepare the subset to be balloted within two weeks of the close of the meeting. With Rich moving on to the vice chair, we also need a new secretary. Please let me know if you think you would like to give that a try. Until we get a new secretary, please be prepared to take your turn at this important task in rotation. (A new secretary can put his/her stamp on the design of the minutes, if he/she so desires; in the rotation meantime we can use Rich's format, and as vice chair Rich will supply most of the boilerplate for the minutes - meeting dates, membership lists, etc.). See some of you in Brussels in July; to the rest, have a good summer, and see you in Albuquerque in November. Jerry