Name

XConsortium - X Consortium information

Synopsis

Release 6.3 of X Version 11 was brought to you by 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.

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://ftp.x.org

Roles

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.

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 Institiute 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.