Administrative changes

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From: Nhu Nguyen <xerantheum@gmail.com>
To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Mon, Apr 22, 2013 1:22 pm
Subject: [pbs] Administrative changes

Dear PBS members and List participants,In February 2013, after 11 years
of unwavering dedication to the PacificBulb Society, Mary Sue Ittner
announced to the Board of Directors that shewould be retiring.Mary Sue
and a number of others formed the Pacific Bulb Society in 2002 andwith
forward wisdom and insights set up the PBS structure that we seetoday.
The List was created with the idea that knowledge should beaccessible
to everyone, and thus membership was not required to beparticipating
member. Mary Sue first hosted the List on her own server andon ibiblio
since then. The list now hosts about 600 people and I think manywill
agree with me that it's one of the best plant forum on the internet.And
perhaps most importantly, Mary Sue created the PBS Wiki. The idea of
a"wiki" was new back in 2002, yet Mary Sue adopted it readily and
throughoutthe years added contents and photos which makes up the core
content of thewiki. The structure that you see today had not deviated
drastically fromthe original wiki. The appearance of Mary Sue's name on
most of the wikipages speaks to her dedication and literally countless
hours that she spentimproving the wiki. There were major hurdles to
keep the wiki running whereat one point we almost had to shut it down
due to major software changes.But Mary Sue kept her dedication strong
and sought help to moved the entirewiki to a new piece of software and
we have been using it since.In conjunction with the List, the PBS Wiki
has become the best source ofinformation and photos of bulbs anywhere.
If you search for a bulb name inGoogle, the PBS Wiki can be found on
the very first page if not the veryfirst hit. This speaks to the
tremendous influence that the work which MarySue and her helpers have
produced for the plant world and for posterity.We have now completed
the transition of administrative responsibility. Wewelcome Eugene
Zielinksi who is assisting David Pilling and Diane Whiteheadas
administrators for the PBS List. David Pilling had taken over
theleadership of the wiki and with Mike Mace, myself, and our newest
teammember Gastil, we continue to add content and maintain the quality
of workthat Mary Sue produced over the years. Please contact one of us
if you haveinquires and relieve Mary Sue of her duties so that she can
spend timeenjoying the sunshine and many wonderful geophytes in her
retirement. Andalthough we consider this a retirement, Mary Sue will
continue adding tothe wiki of the years of backlog photos and
information.Please join me in thanking Mary Sue for all that she had
done for the PBSover the years. The PBS that you see today would not be
the same had it notbeen for her continual dedication and wisdom. Thank
you very very verymuch, Mary Sue!!!Nhu NguyenPBS
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