Fwd: [netcdfgroup] Retiring soon

[Rob Latham]

You know, in 13 years of working on Parallel-NetCDF I never had the 
chance to meet Russ in person.  Without Russ's early work creating 
Unidata's NetCDF, Northwestern and Argonne never would have teamed up on 
Parallel-NetCDF.


==rob



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Subject: 	[netcdfgroup] Retiring soon
Date: 	Tue, 22 Sep 2015 12:44:41 -0600
From: 	Russ Rew <russ at ucar.edu>
To: 	NetCDF Group List <netcdfgroup at unidata.ucar.edu>



After 29 years with UCAR's Unidata Program following 15 years with
NCAR's high-performance computing facility, I'll be retiring at the end
of this month to explore other interesting distractions.

I'm grateful for the opportunities I've had to develop open-source
software infrastructure for geoscience research and educu ation, including
parts of netCDF and Unidata's Internet Data Distribution system. I'm
also proud to have helped build and manage Unidata's talented staff as
it grew from 3 to 23 under Directors Dave Fulker and Mohan Ramamurthy.

NetCDF has benefited from the work of many other developers and
contributors
<http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/credits.html>.  With Ward
Fisher now leading netCDF development and support at Unidata and
collaborating with an active world-wide community of open-source
developers, I'm confident that the software will continue to serve its
users and prove again that shared efforts can be leveraged to develop,
support, and maintain long-lasting infrastructure.

Farewell to many friends in the community. I'll miss you, but plan to
stay in touch as an occasional reader and contributor to the netcdfgroup
mailing list, most likely under an assumed name ... 😎

-- 
Russ Rew
UCAR Unidata Program



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