Samba creator Andrew Tridgell has joined Open Source Development Labs as the lab's second Appointed Fellow. This appointment will allow Tridge to devote his entire focus and energy to Samba4 development. Those following commit messages will know that Tridge has gotten an awful lot done even with other responsibilities, so this year is sure to be one of amazing progress in Samba4.

From the OSDL Press Release:

The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a global consortium dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux® in the enterprise, today named Samba creator Andrew Tridgell, PhD, as the Lab's second appointed Fellow. Tridgell joins Linux creator Linus Torvalds as an OSDL Fellow, positions created by the Lab to allow strategic developers to focus exclusively on their development and coding contributions to the open source community.