It is with real pleasure that I announce that three cocoon committers were elected members of the ASF in the last round of votation that ended today.
Vadim, Sylvain and Carsten (in alphabetical order by their last names)
Hoping that they will accept the invitation, I welcome them into the higher level of ASF participation.
WOW, WOW, WOW and WOW !! What a pleasant surprise !
I am very honoured by this nomination, and heartedly thank those who proposed me.
Member elections is a blind process for non-members, but I guess Stefano must be for something in this ;-)
In 3 years using Cocoon (I started in july 2000), and 2 years of committership (april 2001), I can say that Cocoon and Apache changed my life. Cocoon is everywhere in my work (since july 2000, when it was created, 95% of the projects made by my company are using it), and allowed me to know a lot of people that were first names on mailing lists, then friends on mailing lists, and now friends in real life and business partners.
My actual involvement isn't always what I would like it to be (I need some time for my wife and 2 sons and also for customer projects), but the passion is there, both for the project and its community, and I can assure you it will last.
Many thanks.
Sylvain
-- Sylvain Wallez Anyware Technologies http://www.apache.org/~sylvain http://www.anyware-tech.com { XML, Java, Cocoon, OpenSource }*{ Training, Consulting, Projects } Orixo, the opensource XML business alliance - http://www.orixo.com
