International web standards organization W3C co-chair Michael(tm) Smith announced today, "there will be a change in the leadership for the HTML Working Group". Sam Ruby has been appointed as a new co-chair. He will be joining co-chair Chris Wilson beginning January 5th. Smith will return to his previous role as the W3C staff contact for the group.
Ruby is currently a Senior Technical Staff Member in the Emerging Technologies Group at IBM. He has made significant contributions to many of the Apache Software Foundation's open source software projects.
W3C is a consortium. Member organizations maintain full-time staff and work together to develop standards for the World Wide Web.
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