[LUAU] Peter Quinn Resigns

Jim Thompson jim at netgate.com
Wed Dec 28 01:23:37 PST 2005


http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/05/12/28/0037246.shtml? 
tid=185&tid=219

> Andy Updegrove is reporting on his blog that Peter Quinn, CIO of  
> Massachusetts and focus of the recent media feeding frenzy, has  
> decided to step down. Quinn stressed that his departure does not  
> signal any major changes in policy nor was he forced to resign. He  
> did say that a large part of the decision was made by the Boston  
> Globe's unfounded (and quickly disproven) charges."

http://www.consortiuminfo.org/newsblog/blog.php?ID=1863

> I'm very sorry to report that Peter Quinn, the CIO of Massachusetts  
> who has been at the center of a controversy relating to his efforts  
> at the Information Technology Division (ITD) to adopt the  
> OpenDocument format for the use of the Commonwealth's Executive  
> Agencies, has resigned, effective January 9, 2005.

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20051227113652154

> I've heard that Peter Quinn resigned as the CIO of Massachusetts  
> effective Jan 9, 2006. I met with Peter briefly on December 21,  
> prior to his decision, and he indicated to me he was extremely  
> uncomfortable with the personal attention surrounding the open  
> format controversy. Peter is an IT professional who is not  
> accustomed to the rough-and-tumble world of politics. He found the  
> last few months to be very distasteful, especially the Boston Globe  
> article that seemed to imply some sort of improper influence  
> related to his conference travel. He was completely cleared after  
> an internal administrative review.

TPOSSCON 2006 starts January 9th.   Peter Quinn was on the agenda,  
but had to cancel.   Perhaps now we understand a bit more about 'why'.

Jim





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