I'm pleased to announce that Steve Youngs has decided to take on the challenge of XEmacs Beta Release Manager, and in turn Ville Skyttä will be shouldering the duties of XEmacs Package Release Engineer, with Peter "Rendhalver" Brown assisting. These are primarily administrative positions, concerned with tracking and applying patches and packaging distributions. This involves a fair amount of time, and I am glad for this opportunity to acknowledge their contributions. Adrian Aichner, Vin Shelton, Andy Piper, and I continue as Webmaster, 21.1 Release Manager, 21.4 (Windows) Release Manager, and 21.4 Release Manager respectively, rounding out the administrative core. The XEmacs Review Board (see http://www.xemacs.org/Develop/jobs.html) continues to set policy, both for administration and architecture. Almost all policy discussions now take place on the XEmacs Design mailing list (open subscription, open post). Of course, contributions of code, testing, and bug reports are the lifeblood of an open source software project. But if you'd like to contribute some time and effort to management of the XEmacs Project, there are any number of tasks, large and small, that are being shared (or neglected :-( ) at present. Feel free to write me off list to volunteer, or on list (XEmacs Design) to discuss your ideas for future directions. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN