Hello Koha Community! I wanted to take a few minutes to introduce myself. My name is Sean McIntyre and I was brought on board PTFS, after they acquired LibLime on March 15th, to manage all of the software development work related to their ILS / Koha business. This is an exciting opportunity for me and I wanted to share a bit of my background with all of you, as I expect to be an active participant in this Open Source Community as it moves forward (if you'll have me). My family and I live in Northern Virginia, outside of Washington D.C. and have been here since 1981; which is a very long time for this area of the United States. After graduating high school I went on to earn a B.S. in Computer Science & Engineering at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Over the next 20+ years, I held a variety of positions in the D.C. Metropolitan area in government contracting as well as commercial software ventures. My resume includes two start-ups and the last 6 years of my career at AOL; the last 3 of which I ran all the technology on the AOL News site, the 4th largest in the world. My background includes a dozen or more programming languages and consistent use of open source software since the mid-90s. In my role here at LibLime, I am involved in all of our software activities, particularly our large sponsored development projects. It is my intent that my team and I will work effectively with the community, building upon some of the collaboration that pre-dated the acquisition in March. Most of our clients are strong advocates of their sponsored development benefiting the open source community as a whole and we intend to honor our clients desires in this area, even encouraging those who feel less strongly about this. Our client base has grown substantially since the acquisition and we have inherited two very large, demanding software development activities that are on a tight schedule. I mention this, as it has an impact on my resources in the near term. Obviously, we have to place a priority on meeting the needs of our paying clients and their time lines. At no time however would I want that to cast a doubt on our overall goal to work effectively with the community and make contributions. It just may be the case that given our current resourcing and economics that features built for our clients will be available to them first to test and flesh out. This will allow our contributions to be of a higher quality then if we released them immediately and to meet the demanding schedules we have inherited. We are looking at different mechanisms to share with the broad community what we are working on, with the thought of reducing the duplication of effort on significant software enhancements and I'd love to hear your thoughts on how we might do this most effectively. Soon I'll be joining the IRC chat on a regular basis and welcome any and all comments or thoughts. If you perceive my team or I are doing something that is not as beneficial to the community as it could be, please let me know. I'd be happy to talk about it and am optimistic that many of these perceptions are based on mis-understandings that are easily cleared up. Sincerely, Sean McIntyre Engineering Mgr, ILS LibLime, a Division of PTFS