Rob (Taylor) used to be one of the lead developers of the Telepathy project, he co-founded Collabora and is now starting up Codethink Ltd. He has worked on HAL, D-BUS, Telepathy and various other bits and bytes of the many GMAE and GNOME components.
Although not the only participant in this, I believe he played an important role at encouraging a number of companies in working with us, the GNOME Free Software community. He combined his technical expertise with business expertise.
It’s therefore my opinion that Rob has become one of our most skilled and needed people. At LinuxTag we agreed to start working together under Codethink’s flag. I will be the first contractor to come on under the new Codethink plan.
With our expertise we are planning to change the mobile landscape. We’re both passionate people who’s goal is to make the difference, which is exactly what we’ll do.
And Robs full name is?
Rob Taylor. Sorry, I updated the blog item to make this more clear.