Welcome, Sylvain! (I hope I will not run out of hair and regret proposing you...)
Carsten > -----Original Message----- > From: Sylvain Wallez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 7:14 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: New committer > > > Hi all, > > Thanks for all your votes and for accepting me in the Avalon team. > Following the tradition, here's a short introduction. > > I'm 36 and live in Toulouse, in the south of France. I started playing > with computers around 15, and never stopped since then. You'll find more > about me at my Apache home page at [1] (which obviously needs some > update with my new status), and I will concentrate here on my interest > in Avalon. > > I discovered Avalon with the pre-alpha Cocoon 2 two years ago, and this > was a big "wow!" : I had been writing components for several years, but > my home-grown framework wasn't neither as clean and minimalist nor as > powerful as Avalon. > > My first heavy use of Avalon (other that just implementing lifecycle > interfaces) was in late 2001 when I wrote Cocoon's new interpreted > sitemap engine. Building a tree of components wasn't that easy > considering the "flat" nature of most applications. I rewrote it about 3 > times before being happy with it, each time deleting 30% of the code > because of a better use of Avalon features ! > > My activity in Avalon, which is for now mainly in the area of components > heavily used by Cocoon, will certainly include the container in a near > future : I'm working on Cocoon-based applications deployed in > resource-constrained environments, and this is likely to require some > container-related development to optimize things. > > I'm proud to be part of this project which gathers people that I > consider to be very talented. My hope is that the emotional difficulties > the project went through will come to an end, because Avalon must be > backed by a healthy community to reach the potential it deserves. > > Thanks again, > Sylvain > > [1] http://www.apache.org/~sylvain/ > > -- > Sylvain Wallez Anyware Technologies > http://www.apache.org/~sylvain http://www.anyware-tech.com > { XML, Java, Cocoon, OpenSource }*{ Training, Consulting, Projects } > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
