Hi I found a little time during my vacation to post a news item about the 5 years birthday https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CAMEL/2012/07/20/Happy+5+years+birthday+Apache+Camel
The images is taken by me, eg such as the birthday cake, and the graphs. On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Christian Müller <christian.muel...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1! > I would like a blog post such like this! > Also to show how the Camel team and the Camel community grows over the > time, in which areas Camel is used (CERN, ESA, travel services, finance, > ...). > > Best, > Christian > > On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Claus Ibsen <claus.ib...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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 >> -- 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
