The MariaDB Foundation, stewards of the community-maintained open
source MariaDB database that is sweeping the Internet, announced
today the next steps towards a community-managed governance
structure. With the appointment of a new, enlarged Board of
Directors and a new interim chief executive, the MariaDB
Foundation is now on track to a fully member-led governance in
the second half of 2013.
The Board members are now Rasmus Johansson, Andrew Katz, Simon
Phipps, Michael “Monty” Widenius, and Jeremy Zawodny. The first
act of the new interim Board was to appoint Johansson as Chair
and Phipps as Secretary and Chief Executive Officer.
The Board bring together a wealth of experience. Johansson is an
experienced leader within the MariaDB developer community. Katz
is a well-known expert in open source legal matters and has been
acting as COO of the Foundation until now. Phipps brings
experience of IBM and Sun Microsystems as well as …
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