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David E. Ross

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			I wrote my first line of software in the early 1960s while still a student at UCLA. I found computers to be so interesting that I made a career of software development and testing.

	Beyond merely participating in various newsgroups, my first involvement with Big8-Usenet was in 1998, when I was a principal proponent in a successful RFD to split rec.collecting.stamps into rec.collecting.stamps.discuss and rec.collecting.stamps.marketplace. This was during the era when the general Internet public voted on Big8 RFDs, and I had to defend myself against attacks from commercial interests that wanted to continue spamming a newsgroup intended for hobbyists who collected stamps.		Beyond merely participating in various newsgroups, my first involvement with Big8-Usenet was in 1998, when I was a principal proponent in a successful RFD to split rec.collecting.stamps into rec.collecting.stamps.discuss and rec.collecting.stamps.marketplace. This was during the era when the general Internet public voted on Big8 RFDs, and I had to defend myself against attacks from commercial interests that wanted to continue spamming a newsgroup intended for hobbyists who collected stamps.

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			==David E. Ross==

	Beyond merely participating in various newsgroups, my first involvement with Big8-Usenet was in 1998, when I was a principal proponent in a successful RFD to split rec.collecting.stamps into rec.collecting.stamps.discuss and rec.collecting.stamps.marketplace. This was during the era when the general Internet public voted on Big8 RFDs, and I had to defend myself against attacks from commercial interests that wanted to continue spamming a newsgroup intended for hobbyists who collected stamps.		Beyond merely participating in various newsgroups, my first involvement with Big8-Usenet was in 1998, when I was a principal proponent in a successful RFD to split rec.collecting.stamps into rec.collecting.stamps.discuss and rec.collecting.stamps.marketplace. This was during the era when the general Internet public voted on Big8 RFDs, and I had to defend myself against attacks from commercial interests that wanted to continue spamming a newsgroup intended for hobbyists who collected stamps.

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Beyond merely participating in various newsgroups, my first involvement with Big8-Usenet was in 1998, when I was a principal proponent in a successful RFD to split rec.collecting.stamps into rec.collecting.stamps.discuss and rec.collecting.stamps.marketplace. This was during the era when the general Internet public voted on Big8 RFDs, and I had to defend myself against attacks from commercial interests that wanted to continue spamming a newsgroup intended for hobbyists who collected stamps.

After a [http://www.rossde.com/retired.html career of more than 40 years creating and testing computer software], I retired in 2003. In the meantime, I had headed a small [http://www.oakparkfoundation.org/ charitable foundation] for some 17 years, an unpaid volunteer position from which I retired in 2007. I then sought venues for other volunteer service.

One venue was Big8-Usenet, where I volunteered to create a list of Internet [[RFCs]] affecting newsgroups for the Wiki. RFCs are "requests for comments", some of which lead to Internet standards. When an opening on the Big8 Management Board then arose in 2009, I then volunteered for election. I have served on the Board since then.

I have always been active [http://www.rossde.com/index.html#community_service volunteering], and I remain so in venues other than the Big8 Management Board.