On Tue, 2011-12-20 at 01:05 +0100, Cédric Damioli wrote: > Hi community, > > I'm very proud to have been nominated for Cocoon commitership. Thanks a > lot to all who voted for me. > > Let's introduce briefly myself: I am a 32 years old french guy, living > and working near Toulouse (south west of France). I am married with > Florence and have two daughters, Lisa, 3 years and Julia, 7 months and 2 > teeth since last week :) > > My long story with Cocoon began in 2002 as an intern of Sylvain Wallez, > with pre-2.0 versions, on a time where sitemap was compiled and XSP were > kings ! I was immediately impressed by the elegance of SAX based > pipelines. I quickly learned to write custom components and to > understand Cocoon internals. > During the 7 next years, I have trained 100+ people from French > administration and universities to Cocoon and developped dozens of > Cocoon 2.0 and 2.1 based applications. > > Since 2009, I am the co-founder and CTO of Anyware Services, a small > company developping Ametys (http://www.ametys.org), an Open Source Web > CMS written on top of Cocoon 2.1. Ametys is currently mainly used by > French universities, and run almost 50 000 sites around the world. > Despite that Cocoon 2.1 may be considered as obsolete by many people, I > still consider it as the best existing framework for building publishing > applications. It is VERY stable and reliable. > I must admit that I never considered a migration to Cocoon 2.2 nor 3.0, > because of the amount of work it would represent to migrate all the > features I hacked directly deep in the Cocoon internals. > That's why I volunteered to help maintaining and releasing Cocoon 2.1 > > I hope to be able to contribute back to Cocoon community as much as it > brought to me and my projects the last 10 years.
A warm welcome as committer. Reading your introduction we started to know cocoon in the same year and as you, I consider cocoon as well still the best existing framework for building publishing applications. :) I am looking forward to work with you on the project. salu2 -- Thorsten Scherler <thorsten.at.apache.org> codeBusters S.L. - web based systems <consulting, training and solutions> http://www.codebusters.es/
