[Chapter-delegates] Arnoud van Wijk leaving ISOC HQ

[Alejandro Pisanty]

Arnoud,

I am sure I speak for many in making a public deep recognition of your 
contribution to ISOC's work, achievements, and frame of mind. They are the 
result of your even-handedness, ease of approach, competence, ethical 
sense, and hard work.

Hats off and much luck in your new endeavours.

Alejandro Pisanty


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On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, Arnoud van Wijk wrote:

> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:46:03 +0100
> From: Arnoud van Wijk <arnoud at realtimetext.org>
> To: chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org
> Subject: [Chapter-delegates] Arnoud van Wijk leaving ISOC HQ
> 
> Dear Chapters.
>
> I have for almost 2 years worked with ISOC as a coordinator for disability 
> projects. It has indeed been an interesting and great time. I have met 
> several of you in person. And I have been working together with several ISOC 
> Chapters as well e.g. ISOC-Argentina, ISOC-Australia, ISOC-Colombia and the 
> Disability and Special Needs Chapter.
> One of my biggest activities with ISOC has and is the Real-Time Text 
> Taskforce (R3TF), www.realtimetext.org. It started as a project incubated by 
> ISOC. The focus in the beginning was mainly on standards. With the Real-Time 
> Text standards now in place (RFC4103 and ITU T. 140), the focus will now move 
> towards:
>
> • Implementing Real-Time Text (RTT)
> • Promoting interoperability of the different RTT systems and services and
> • Expanding creating awareness of RTT towards the industry, organizations, 
> end-users and governments.
>
> To pursue these goals, I am pleased to share with you that the R3TF has been 
> established as an independent organisation to provide an open forum for 
> engineers, experts, motivated individuals, companies and organisations who 
> want to help to test, implement, and advance the wide-spread adoption of 
> Real-Time Text (RTT). As an international non-profit foundation based in the 
> Netherlands it will have additional flexibility to pursue its mission. I am 
> also pleased to share that I will take the position as the Director of the 
> R3TF.
>
> As a result, I regret that my role as Disability Project Coordinator will not 
> be possible anymore. But I am glad to see that the awareness of an accessible 
> Internet is high within ISOC and with the continued work of the Chapters I am 
> sure it will continue to be so! And without the support of ISOC, the R3TF 
> would not have happened. Together, we can continue to grow and develop the 
> R3TF to become a significant actor in the Accessibility and ICT field.
>
> I enjoyed working with you and I really want to continue being involved with 
> the ISOC community involved in disabilities work as an ISOC member. I would, 
> of course, be particularly happy to discuss with you issues related to 
> Real-Time Text and to have your participation in R3TF activities. Other 
> Disability work is possible with me via my own consulting company 
> GreenGiraffe.
> I am still looking how I can stay in touch with all of you and I am open to 
> your suggestions and advice. In the meantime, I wish all of you the best and 
> look forward to talking with you all again soon.
> You can always e-mail me at arnoud at realtimetext.org and feel free to ask me 
> anything about the R3TF or to discuss possibilities with me.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Arnoud van Wijk
> Director
> Real-Time Text Taskforce
> http://www.realtimetext.org/
>
> PS You can still find me on the chapters-disability-nexus mailing list, where 
> I will contribute as an individual ISOC member. 
> http://elists.isoc.org/mailman/listinfo/chapters-disability-nexus
>
>
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