[Themaintainers] Happy 5th Birthday, Maintainers

[Robin Hammerman]

Happy Birthday to Maintainers! You are quite mature for your age. My wish for you is many more years of prosperity and productivity.
Onward, Robin


Dr. Robin Hammerman (she/her/hers)
Teaching Associate Professor
Stevens Institute of Technology
College of Arts and Letters
Morton 335

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Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 10:34:39 AM
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Subject: [Themaintainers] Happy 5th Birthday, Maintainers

Hi, everybody.

It's hard to believe, but it was five years ago today that Maintainers co-director Andy Russell wrote an email, saying that we should answer Walter Isaacson's book, _The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution_, with a volume to be titled, _The Maintainers: How Bureaucrats, Standards Engineers, and Introverts Create Technologies that Kinds of Work Most of the Time_. It's been a wild ride since that time.

In the last few years, our biggest developments were the grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which has allowed us to build the organizational infrastructure of the group, and our most recent conference, Maintainers III: Practice, Policy, and Care, which many of you participated in. Another crucial development was Jessica Meyerson - our visionary community builder - becoming the third Maintainers co-director. We'll have more happenings, conversations, and publications down the road, including soon the report from Maintainers III, which will highlight and synthesize some of the ideas we heard there.

Most of all, Andy, Jess, and I want to thank YOU, the members of The Maintainers community, for being involved. It's hearing and learning from you all that really makes it all worth it.

Jess, put together a little birthday card for Twitter, which I paste below. It includes these words, "Join us in celebrating this happy milestone by sharing how you got involved in The Maintainers."

Much love to all,

Lee

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Co-Director
The Maintainers
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