[Mitkc-announce] New Sponsors, and West Coast Dinner

[Stephen C. Buckley]

I'm very pleased to announce that Microsoft has just officially  
joined the MIT Kerberos Consortium.  Slava Kavsan, their Director of  
Development for Windows Core Security will take a seat on our  
Executive Board, joining Paul Armstrong from Google, Wyllys Ingersoll  
from Sun, and Wilson D'Souza from MIT.  Needless to say, they  
represent a vast number of users of Kerberos, so their joining the  
Consortium is significant.  It is an important step forward towards  
our common goal of developing a universal authentication platform for  
the world's computer networks.

We officially launched the Kerberos Consortium in late September 2007  
with the support of Apple, Centrify, Google, Sun, Stanford  
University, TeamF1 and the University of Michigan.  Since then we  
have also been very pleased to welcome Carnegie Mellon University,  
Cornell University, Duke University, Iowa State University, Michigan  
State University, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration,  
Pennsylvania State University and The United States Department of  
Defense as additional Founding Sponsors of the Kerberos Consortium.   
We are grateful for the support from these organizations.

We also held the first meeting of our Executive Advisory Board in  
December (see http://www.kerberos.org/events/Board-12-11-07/ for  
slides and minutes).  Given the preponderance of Consortium sponsors  
on the west coast, we have decided to hold at least one board meeting  
per year there.  Therefore, the next meeting of the Executive  
Advisory board will be held on April 7, 2008 at Google in Mountain  
View, California.

One of our sponsors has proposed founding a "West Coast Friends of  
Kerberos" group, that might meet informally to exchange ideas.  I'm  
pleased to kick off this idea by hosting the first (of what I hope  
will be many), "West Coast Friends of Kerberos" dinner, at 7 pm,  
April 7th at "Cascal", 400 Castro St., Mountain View, California.   
Note that this is the day before the RSA Conference in San Francisco,  
so even if you do not live on the west coast, you might find you'll  
be in the area. Please let me know if you are able to join us, so I  
can get an accurate count for dinner.

Kind regards, and thanks again for your support.

s



_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/

Stephen C. Buckley
Executive Director
MIT Kerberos Consortium
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Ave W92-159
Cambridge, MA 02139

email:  sbuckley at mit.edu
web: http://www.kerberos.org
office: + 1 617.324.9167
mobile: + 1 617.645.6278
fax:     +1 617.258.3976

Note: I never BCC anyone.



-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/mitkc-announce/attachments/20080206/7b9dc611/attachment.htm