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# NAME

XConsortium - X Consortium information

# SYNOPSIS

Releases 6.0 through 6.3 of X Version 11 were brought to you by the X Consortium, Inc.

# DESCRIPTION

The X Consortium was an independent, not-for-profit Delaware membership corporation. It was formed in 1993 as the successor to the MIT X Consortium. The purpose of the X Consortium was to foster the development, evolution, and maintenance of the X Window System, a comprehensive set of vendor-neutral, system-architecture neutral, network-transparent windowing and user interface standards.

The X Window System was created in the mid-1980s at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1988, MIT formed a member-funded consortium to provide the technical and administrative leadership necessary to support further development of the X Window System. In 1992, MIT and the membership decided it was in their best interests to move the consortium out of MIT and create an independent, stand-alone organization. All rights to the X Window System were assigned by MIT to X Consortium, Inc. on January 1, 1994. X Consortium, Inc. closed its doors on December 31, 1996. All rights to the X Window System have been assigned to the Open Software Foundation.

The X Consortium was financially self-supporting through membership fees. There are no license fees associated with the use of X Window System standards and code developed by the X Consortium. Membership in the X Consortium was open to any organization willing to execute a membership agreement.

The X Consortium was a highly participative body. Members were encouraged to actively cooperate with the staff and other members in the design and review of proposed specifications, and in the design, coding and testing of sample implementations of those specifications.

The X Consortium accomplished most of its work using electronic mail over the Internet, with individual mailing lists for working groups. Internet electronic mail connectivity was viewed as a requirement for useful participation in X Consortium activities. Meetings were held as necessary, often in conjunction with industry conferences and trade shows.

# STAFF

    President:
    Bob Scheifler
    Office Manager:
    Janet O'Halloran
    Director of Marketing:
    Paul Lavallee
    Director of Engineering:
    Jim Fournier
    Manager, X Window System:
    Matt Landau, emeritus
    Technical Director, X Window System:
    Ralph Swick
    Technical Staff, X Window System:
    Donna Converse, emeritus
    Stephen Gildea, emeritus
    Kaleb Keithley
    Arnaud Le Hors
    Ralph Mor, emeritus
    Ray Tice
    Dave Wiggins, emeritus
    Managers, CDE Development:
    Giora Guth
    Peter Bohnert, emeritus
    Manager, CDE Quality Engineering:
    David Brooks
    CDE Architects:
    Kevin Samborn
    Daniel Dardailler, emeritus
    Technical Staff, CDE Development:
    Art Barstow
    Pascale Dardailler
    David Kaelbling
    Mitch Greess
    Robert Seacord
    Technical Staff, CDE Quality Engineering:
    Chris Burleson
    Tom Cavin
    Sami Mohammed
    Mark Schuldenfrei
    Manager, Systems Administration:
    Kevin Ethier
    Technical Staff, Systems Administration:
    Mike Donati
    Amy Rich, emeritus
    Anne Salemme

# BOARD OF DIRECTORS

The X Consortium's activities and affairs were managed under the direction and oversight of a Board of Directors, elected annually by the Members. The Board was responsible for reviewing the achievements of the Consortium, approving planned work, appointing a President and other officers of the Consortium, and setting membership dues. The last Directors were:

    Robert W. Scheifler, President, X Consortium
    Dr. Forest Baskett, Senior VP of R&D, Silicon Graphics Computer Systems
    Harold D. Blair, Apogee International Corp.
    Roger S. Gourd, Gourd & Associates
    Dr. Robin Hillyard, Chairman and Chief Technical Officer, Novasoft Systems
    Don McGovern, General Operations Manager and Executive Dir., Hewlett Packard
    Peter J. Shaw, Senior VP, NetManage
    Michael Tobias, President, Tech-Source, Inc.

# ADDRESS

To reach the X Consortium public Wide World Web server, use the URL: http://www.x.org/

To reach the X Consortium public ftp machine, use anonymous ftp to: ftp.x.org

# FULL MEMBERS

    Adobe Systems Inc.
    Cray Research, Inc.
    Digital Equipment Corp.
    Fujitsu Limited
    Hewlett-Packard Company
    Hitachi Ltd.
    IBM Corporation
    Megatek Corp.
    Motorola, Inc.
    NEC Corporation
    Novell, Inc.
    Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
    OMRON Corporation
    SCO, Inc.
    Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG
    Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Sony Corporation
    Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Tektronix, Inc.

# ASSOCIATE MEMBERS

    Boundless Technologies
    Hummingbird Communications Ltd.
    Insignia Solutions, Ltd.
    Mercury Interactive Corp.
    NetManage, Inc.
    Network Computing Devices
    VisiCom Laboratories, Inc.
    Walker Richer & Quinn, Inc.

# END USERS

    Hughes Aircraft Company

# AFFILIATE MEMBERS

    ASTEC, Inc.
    BARCO Chromatics, Inc.
    CenterLine Software, Inc.
    CliniComp, Intl.
    Component Integration Laboratories, Inc.
    Draper Laboratory.
    Electronic Book Technologies, Inc.
    Gallium Software, Inc.
    Georgia Institute of Technology
    Human Designed Systems, Inc.
    INRIA - Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique
    Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc.
    Investment Management Services, Inc.
    Jupiter Systems
    KL Group Inc.
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Metheus Corporation
    Metro Link, Inc.
    Object Management Group, Inc.
    Open Software Foundation
    Performance Awareness Corp.
    Peritek Corp.
    Petrotechnical Open Software Corp.
    Point Technologies, Inc.
    Shiman Associates, Inc.
    Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
    Software Development Corp.
    SOUM Corporation
    Spectragraphics Corp.
    Tech-Source, Inc.
    TriTeal Corp.
    White Pine Software, Inc.
    World Wide Web Consortium.
    The XFree86 Project, Inc.
    X Inside, Inc.

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