The current subscriber list, in relative order of subscription, is:
khare@w3.org FoRKee
adam@cs.caltech.edu "Aaadamn" Rifkin, Caltech vaporware student
ernest@alumni.caltech.edu Dr. Ernie, Chaplain (CIT Physics PhD)
gordoni@base.com Gordon Irlam, Nameless One (Cygnus)
FoRK-archive http://xent.w3.org/FoRK-archive/
gdavis@ghs.com Greg "Da Throat" Davis, CIT '95 CS
tbyars@earthlink.com Tim "Da Producer" Byars,
multimedia multipurpose whipping boy
Robert.Harley@inria.fr Robert "Dances With Factors" Harley,
CIT '95 MSCS, @INRIA
richardr@studio.disney.com Richard Ruth, late of Disney Security
(and even later of the US Navy)
dobbin@tma.com John Dobbin, bit-scavenger of Rifkinalia
posh@sirius.com Wendy Mattson, freelance NeXTite & editor
rst@ai.mit.edu Robert "Begone!" Thau, creator of Apache
magnush@microsoft.com Magnus The Terrible, Minion of the Evil Empire
kiniry@cs.caltech.edu Joe "E. Neumann" Kiniry, CIT '02 CS PhD cand.
jharvey@co.riverside.ca.us <insert subscriber here>
BAISLEY@fndcd.fnal.gov <insert anagram of Wayne here. Wait a sec...>
frystyk@w3.org Henrik Breakfast-Nielsen, cute Danish moocher,
smoocher, and rooster :-) (libWWW)
dan@teledesic.com Dan "InfoSponge II" Kohn, Clueful(!) Marketeer
markl@teledesic.com Mark "the Shark" Lundstrom, Rocket Scientist
rfa@initco.net <insert subscriber here>
Associated characters who stubbornly refuse to join in the cutlery parade:
greg@marble.com Greg "Bring On the Black Kool-Aid" Burd,
exNeXT-hacker, now consulting
rajit@cs.caltech.edu Rajit "whatever" Manohar, timeless smart dude
schooler@cs.caltech.edu Eve Schooler, MMusical non-MBoneheaded type
connolly@w3.org Dan "Committed" Connolly, who should be :-)
Minor Deity of HTML and Obscure Scripts
(feel free to invent better titles. No reusing DNRC titles, though!)
Now, some of you have already heard from me about Mark Lundstrom. We met
at the final recruiting round at McKinsey & Associates in LA (who, by the by,
still have me in their sights; they airdropped two copies of the McK Quarterly
last week). He transferred into the MIT Aero/Astro program, did the usual ol'
Sloan Leaders For Manufacturing/Rhodes/multimillion-dollar startup routine
and has this middling personnel-office job at a tiny startup and spends his
days benchmarking office furniture. Ho-hum...
While Mark has taught me a lot from our conversations (OK, you got me: my
monologues, but still, even Bob Cringely would have to admit I do a fine
solo act), I have decided his primary virtue was introdcuing me to Dan
Kohn. At the risk of insulting Dan, I will note that we have almost comparable
bitbases, switch time, and full-duplex bandwidth. On the other hand, Dan is
at peace with his Inner Marketeer, and isn't nearly as consumed by self-doubt.
Apparently it's easier to be a business person who reads RFCs than to be an
RFC author seduced by business :-) Dan had a hand in several projects I have
been fascinated by but never recognized his name from including the Interpedia
project and founding the Cambridge startup NetMarket.
Other recent arrivals include: Robert S. Thau, an AI Lab grad student who had
the misfortune of crawling out of his shell and volunteering to write what has
become the #1 web server. This means his days and nights are spent being
taunted alternately by the clueless 97%, his adviser for lack of focus, and by
me for not letting me manage his career prospects :-)
Joe Kiniry is a joint discovery by Adam and myself who was sucked into the
Caltech graduate program in a matter of weeks after a random sighting of his
home page on the web. It's amazing what you can do with lowered standards and
a friend on the committee :-) Joe is the whirlwind visionary trying to whip
the Infospheres project into shape (http://www.infospheres.caltech.edu).
There you have it, the casting for the Fall season of FoRK! I have to admit,
I've never assembled a more formidable list of People Who Make Me Feel
Completely And Utterly Inadequate By Comparison before, and I look forward to
the party...
Rohit Khare
Rohit Khare -- World Wide Web Consortium -- Technical Staff
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