Hi I would like that the Camel team posts a "Happy birthday" on the Camel front page. http://camel.apache.org/
I took the liberty to draft some text. Feel free to help adjust and comment. There is a TODO eg where I would like that we highlight and talk about our great community and how much they are involved in the project. Also we could use a image with a "happy birthday" and the number 5 to indicate 5 year birthday. We would need an image that has no copyright issue etc. So if you have an Apache ICLA and donate the image under that, then I would assume it would be okay to post on the front page? However we could omit it, to just be safe. Anyone feeling creative to sketch such an image? ========================================== Apache Camel turned 5 years old, on the 2nd of July 2012. Happy Birthday. On that day 5 years ago Apache Camel 1.0 was released, just about 3.5 months after James Strachan did the very [first commit|http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/activemq/camel/trunk/?pathrev=519901] of what became the Apache Camel codebase. Every since the first release Camel has gone from strength to strength, with many new releases since * A total of 11 release of the Camel 1.x series. * And so far 23 releases (and 3 milestones, and 1 RC) of the Camel 2.x series. Just to name a few noteworthy highlights in the last five years * First commit on March 19th 2007 * Camel 1.0 was released on July 2th 2007 * Camel 2.0 was released in August 2009 * Apache Camel became Top Level Project in January 2009 * Camel in Action book published in January 2010 (Yes as a co-author of this book I would be biased - so we can remove this if some ppl dont feel that a published book is not a major highlight) * Camel team has grown from 7 to 34 committers * The codebase has grown more than 10x since the 1.0 release * Number of components has grown from 18 to more than 120 * And just recently Apache Camel 2.10 was released, including many new components contributed by the community TODO: Some text here to highlight the great community and the work they do. (eg 5000+ jira tickets, 10k posts per year on @user list, 500+ subscribers on @user, many Camel talks at conferences, JUGS, articles in printed and online magazines, etc.) All together 5 fantastic first years. Cheers for another great years to come ahead. The Camel team -- Claus Ibsen ----------------- FuseSource Email: cib...@fusesource.com Web: http://fusesource.com Twitter: davsclaus, fusenews Blog: http://davsclaus.com Author of Camel in Action: http://www.manning.com/ibsen
