www/people people.html

[karl]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     karl <karl>     14/09/22 23:32:41

Modified files:
        people         : people.html 

Log message:
        remove people who were only past webmasters, per rms; past tense for 
some other people no longer working with GNU

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/people/people.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.424&r2=1.425

Patches:
Index: people.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/people/people.html,v
retrieving revision 1.424
retrieving revision 1.425
diff -u -b -r1.424 -r1.425
--- people.html 22 Sep 2014 22:26:39 -0000      1.424
+++ people.html 22 Sep 2014 23:32:40 -0000      1.425
@@ -168,11 +168,11 @@
 href="/brave-gnu-world/"> Brave GNU
 World</a> and member of the Catalan translation team
 in early 2003, eventually becoming the coordinator
-until early 2007. Since late 2004, he's also the GNU
-Translations Manager, who coordinates the efforts of
+until early 2007. For some time after late 2004, he was also the GNU
+Translations Manager, coordinating the efforts of
 the several <a
 href="/server/standards/README.translations.html#TranslationsUnderway">teams
-working on the translation of the GNU website</a>,
+working on the translation of the GNU web site</a>,
 after Masayuki Hatta.  </p>
 
 <h4><a href="http://www.wfu.edu/~cottrell/";>Allin Cottrell</a></h4>
@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@
 Foundation of India working committee. He is a full time
 slacker and hacks on Python when he has some time. He is
 also a very enthusisastic speaker at numerous Free Software
-Conferences.  He is a contributor to GNU Freetalk, the
+Conferences.  He was a contributor to GNU Freetalk, the
 Free Jabber client.  </p>
 
 <h4>Ben Elliston</h4>
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@
 'sregex' Emacs Lisp package.  He's also written other
 free software, notably <a
 href="http://www.latte.org/";>Latte</a>, and a handful
-of other packages available from his website at <a
+of other packages available from his web site at <a
 href="http://www.zanshin.com/~bobg/";>http://www.zanshin.com/~bobg/</a>
 </p>
 
@@ -364,9 +364,9 @@
 
 <h4>Brett Smith <a href="mailto:address@hidden";>&lt;address@hidden&gt;</a></h4>
 <p><img src="/graphics/fsfsmall.png" alt="Free Software Foundation Staff" 
/></p>
-<p>has worn many hats at the FSF since 2002, including
-GNU Chief Webmaster, intern, and Shipping Manager.
-He's currently the licensing guru at the <a
+<p>wore many hats at the FSF beginning in 2002, including
+GNU Chief Webmaster, intern, and Shipping Manager, and
+licensing guru at the <a
 href="http://www.fsf.org/licensing/";>FSF Compliance
 Lab</a>.  </p>
 
@@ -727,10 +727,10 @@
 Franco Iacomella &lt;yaco (at) gnu.org&gt;
 </h4>
 <p>
-He is an universitary investigator of Argentina. He is
+He was an university investigator in Argentina. He was
 involved in multiple GNUs subprojects in relation with politics,
-licences, documentation, translations and education. Franco also
-usually speaks conferences about GNU Project and free software
+licenses, documentation, translations and education, and
+often spoke at conferences about GNU Project and free software
 movement.
 </p>
 
@@ -857,8 +857,8 @@
 
 <h4>Hugo Gayosso</h4>
 <p>
-Software evaluator for the GNU Project and he was coordinator of the Spanish 
translation
-team for the GNU webpages.
+Was a software evaluator for the GNU Project and coordinator of
+the Spanish translation team for the GNU web site.
 </p>
 
 <h3 id="i">I</h3>
@@ -882,7 +882,7 @@
 
 <h4>Igor T&aacute;mara Pati&ntilde;o</h4>
 <p>
-Is translator to Spanish of GNU web pages, he is co-maintainer of
+Is translator to Spanish of GNU web pages; was co-maintainer of 
 <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gtypist";>GNU Typist</a>.
 </p>
 
@@ -1090,7 +1090,7 @@
 
 <h4><a href="http://www.coyote.org/~jonas/";> Jonas Öberg</a></h4>
 <p>
-Is a GNU webmaster and system administrator. He also advocates the GNU
+Was a GNU webmaster and system administrator. He also advocates the GNU 
 philosophy in Sweden.
 </p>
 
@@ -1155,7 +1155,7 @@
 (Software Libre ARgentina)</a>, and founder of LUGCASARES (
 <a href="/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html">GNU/Linux</a>
 User Group of Carlos Casares). Currently writing a
-project about "The creation of a GNU/Linux Distribution"
+project about &ldquo;The creation of a GNU/Linux Distribution&rdquo;
 made from source. This distribution will be the named for
 Carlos Casares, the city where he lives.</p>
 
@@ -1235,11 +1235,6 @@
 three-dimensional drawing with MetaPost output.
 </p>
 
-<h4>Leo Jackson</h4>
-<p>Volunteers on <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/www/";> GNU Project 
WWW,</a>
-<a href="http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/playogg/sites";> Ogg Sites listing.</a>
-</p>
-
 <h4>
 Leonard Manzara
 &lt;<a href="mailto:address@hidden";>address@hidden</a>&gt;
@@ -1378,9 +1373,8 @@
 <p>
 Is currently maintaining GNU a2ps and Japanese translation of GNU Web pages 
and was chief
 GNU translation coordinator, who administers
-  <a href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">web translation 
efforts</a>
-into other languages apart from English, after Luis M. Arteaga. He is one of 
the
-GNU webmasters, too.
+<a href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">web translation 
efforts</a> 
+into other languages apart from English, after Luis M. Arteaga.
 </p>
 
 <h4><a href="http://www.contactor.se/~matsl/";>Mats Lidell</a></h4>
@@ -1427,10 +1421,10 @@
 
 <h4>Melissa Weisshaus</h4>
 
-<p>Has been with the GNU Project on and off (mostly on)
-since 1991.  She has edited many <a
+<p>was with the GNU Project on and off (mostly on)
+for some years after 1991.  She edited many <a
 href="/bulletins/bulletins.html">GNU's Bulletins</a> and
-has done varying amounts of work on most of the FSF's
+did varying amounts of work on most of the FSF's
 other publications.  </p>
 
 <h4><a href="http://www.moria.de/~michael/";>Michael Haardt</a></h4>
@@ -1537,9 +1531,6 @@
 href="https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/self-platform";>SELF-Platform</a>.
 </p>
 
-<h4>Neelakanth Nadgir</h4>
-<p>worked as a webmaster for www.gnu.org.</p>
-
 <h4><a href="http://members.hellug.gr/nmav/";>Nikos Mavroyanopoulos</a></h4>
 <p>is the author of the <a
 href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/";>gnutls</a>
@@ -1558,12 +1549,6 @@
 
 <h3 id="o">O</h3>
 
-<h4>Ofer Waldman (a.k.a the duke) &lt;the_duke at intermail.co.il&gt;</h4>
-<p>was a GNU project <a
-href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">web
-translations</a> co-coordinator and backup person with
-Masayuki Hatta.</p>
-
 <h4><a href="http://ole.tange.dk";>Ole Tange</a></h4>
 <p>is the author and maintainer of <a href="/software/parallel">GNU
 Parallel</a>. He is actively promoting free software in Denmark.</p>
@@ -1611,12 +1596,6 @@
 Typist</a>.  He also works on several other non-GNU free
 software projects which can be found at his web site.</p>
 
-<h4><!-- site down <a href="http://www.canonical.org/paulv/";> -->Paul 
Visscher<!-- </a> --></h4>
-
-<p>Bkuhn recruited paulv to be a GNU and FSF Webmaster.
-After six months webmastering, Paul took over the
-position of Chief Webmaster from Jonas  Öberg.  </p>
-
 <h4><a href="http://www.pixelbeat.org/";>P&aacute;draig
 Brady</a></h4>
 
@@ -1663,15 +1642,9 @@
 also wrote GNU dbm and GNU bc.  He is the maintainer of
 GNU bc.  </p>
 
-<h4>Prashant Srinivasan</h4>
-
-<p>Is a webmaster for the <a href="/home.html">GNU</a>
-website, he also does other miscellaneous things around
-the site :-) </p>
-
 <h4>Prof. Masayuki Ida</h4>
-<p>Is our Vice President for Japan. He organizes Japanese
-events and works with GNU's friends in Japan.  </p>
+<p>was our Vice President for Japan. He organized Japanese
+events and worked with GNU's friends in Japan.  </p>
 
 <h3 id="r">R</h3>
 
@@ -1714,12 +1687,6 @@
 href="http://www.gnu.org/software/pth/pth.html";>Pth</a>.
 </p>
 
-<h4><a href="http://www.zerobeat.in";>Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan</a></h4>
-<p>
-Was one of the GNU webmasters. He is a strong supporter and advocate of free 
software
-and is also one of the <a href="http://www.debian.org"; >Debian</a> Developers.
-</p>
-
 <h4>Raman <a href="mailto:address@hidden";>&lt;address@hidden&gt;</a></h4>
 
 <p>Is a volunteer programmer at SimpleMachines, Italy and is currently
@@ -1746,19 +1713,6 @@
 You can reach him at &lt;ramprasad at gnu period org&gt;.
 </p>
 
-<h4>
-Reed Loden
-<a href="mailto:address@hidden";>&lt;address@hidden&gt;</a>
-</h4>
-
-<p>Is a volunteer <a href="http://www.gnu.org/";>GNU</a>
-Webmaster, an <a
-href="http://member.fsf.org/join?referrer=3569";>Associate
-Member</a> of the <a href="http://www.fsf.org/";>FSF</a>,
-and a programmer of <a
-href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html";>free
-software</a>.  </p>
-
 <h4>Reinhard M&uuml;ller</h4>
 <p>is the current maintainer of
 <a href="/software/gnue/gnue.html">GNU Enterprise</a>.</p>
@@ -1792,13 +1746,6 @@
 account. Aside from that, any account on these sites claiming to be
 his is fake.</p>
 
-<h4>Rick Crelia</h4>
-
-<p>Is a free software advocate and has worked in the past
-with the GNU software evaluation group. He currently
-works as a system administrator for the Valley Library at
-Oregon State University in Corvallis, OR, USA.  </p>
-
 <h4>Robert J. Chassell</h4>
 
 <p>Was one of the founders of the Free Software Foundation,
@@ -1869,7 +1816,7 @@
 <h4><a href="http://kickino.org";>Sebastian Wieseler</a></h4>
 <p>
 He started idle-ing on #savannah July 17, 2004 and after finishing his
-school years he began to become an active member around May 24, 2005.
+school years he was an active member for some time after May 24, 2005.
 </p>
 
 <h4><a href="http://gray.gnu.org.ua";>Sergey Poznyakoff</a></h4>
@@ -2120,7 +2067,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2014/09/22 22:26:39 $
+$Date: 2014/09/22 23:32:40 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>