Hi everyone,
After six years on the coreboot leadership team I've decided it's time to pass the torch. I joined the leadership team in 2019 while on a mission to get coreboot back on servers and am pleased with the progress that's been made. Now it's time for me to focus on family and other things and make room for somebody more hands-on with the day-to-day activities of the entire community. I'm happy to announce that Martin Roth will be taking over my spot on the leadership team.
Though there are several strong contributors in our community, the leadership team has unanimously selected Martin for this position based on his exceptional qualifications: *
Over 26 years of combined firmware development experience, including 13 years in the coreboot community and 13 years of BIOS development prior, mostly at Cyrix/National Semiconductor and AMD. *
Significant technical contributions through thousands of patches and thoughtful code reviews, along with mentoring several community members. *
Martin has maintained coreboot infrastructure for many years, working behind the scenes to keep the whole project going on a shoestring budget. This included years of maintaining our build infrastructure on servers in his basement. *
Extensive experience working with (or at) silicon vendors on the foundational components needed to enable coreboot on bleeding-edge x86 platforms (FSP, AGESA, OpenSIL). *
Experience at a variety of companies serving various market segments, ranging from embedded systems at National Semiconductor and Sage, to laptops at AMD and Google, and servers at AMD. *
Strong commitment to open-source principles combined with technical expertise to achieve the best possible outcomes in our challenging industry. I'll continue in an advisory role and am also ramping up on some administrative tasks to lighten Martin's load so that he has more time to focus on the codebase. Thanks everyone, and congratulations to Martin!
Hi David and Martin,
David, thank you for your dedicated leadership over these years – your passion and guidance for the coreboot project have been invaluable in the last two decades. You’ve not only lit the way for coreboot but also, if I may add, were the one who lit the spark that bootstrapped the ChromeOS firmware team driving coreboot on hundreds of millions of computers out there! And Martin, I’ve always thought it was about time for you to step up and take the lead (the project was clearly holding out for your basement server wizardry to bring some fresh magic to the helm)! I am delighted to see the project's future be in great hands with you, Matt and Werner!
Having once worn those leadership shoes myself, I know there’s a lot of hard work ahead. I’m excited to see the new chapters you will help write in the coreboot story. Here’s to a smooth transition and even more success for the coreboot project and open source firmware!
Cheers,
Stefan
On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 10:52 PM David Hendricks via coreboot < coreboot@coreboot.org> wrote:
Hi everyone,
After six years on the coreboot leadership team I've decided it's time to pass the torch. I joined the leadership team in 2019 while on a mission to get coreboot back on servers and am pleased with the progress that's been made. Now it's time for me to focus on family and other things and make room for somebody more hands-on with the day-to-day activities of the entire community. I'm happy to announce that Martin Roth will be taking over my spot on the leadership team.
Though there are several strong contributors in our community, the leadership team has unanimously selected Martin for this position based on his exceptional qualifications:
Over 26 years of combined firmware development experience, including 13 years in the coreboot community and 13 years of BIOS development prior, mostly at Cyrix/National Semiconductor and AMD.
Significant technical contributions through thousands of patches and thoughtful code reviews, along with mentoring several community members.
Martin has maintained coreboot infrastructure for many years, working behind the scenes to keep the whole project going on a shoestring budget. This included years of maintaining our build infrastructure on servers in his basement.
Extensive experience working with (or at) silicon vendors on the foundational components needed to enable coreboot on bleeding-edge x86 platforms (FSP, AGESA, OpenSIL).
Experience at a variety of companies serving various market segments, ranging from embedded systems at National Semiconductor and Sage, to laptops at AMD and Google, and servers at AMD.
Strong commitment to open-source principles combined with technical expertise to achieve the best possible outcomes in our challenging industry.
I'll continue in an advisory role and am also ramping up on some administrative tasks to lighten Martin's load so that he has more time to focus on the codebase.
Thanks everyone, and congratulations to Martin! _______________________________________________ coreboot mailing list -- coreboot@coreboot.org To unsubscribe send an email to coreboot-leave@coreboot.org
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