Congratulations Emmanuel! P-A M.
On 4/10/07, Alan D. Cabrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Congrats Emmanuel! Many thanks Alex for your leadership on this project. Regards, Alan On Apr 6, 2007, at 12:18 PM, Alex Karasulu wrote: > Hello, > > This email is my last message to the community with my PMC Chair > hat on. > > For some time now I wanted to step down from the position of PMC > Chair so the position > can be cycled among those on our PMC. With the vibrant growth of > our community and > a strong PMC I finally feel comfortable doing so. For the record > I'm not going anywhere > except fishing on occasion :). I intend to participate on the PMC > and work hard on progressing > all Apache Directory projects so they're the best in each of their > domains. View this > evolutionary step as a sign of how healthy our community has > become. Really it's a > proud day for me. > > After announcing my intention to resign, I asked the PMC to > recommend a candidate > to the board for V.P. of the Directory Project. Emmanuel Lecharny > was unanimously > chosen. In their last official meeting the board approved the > resolution to make Emmanuel > the V.P. of Apache Directory. > > Emmanuel has been among us forever. I think he began contributing > before we left the incubator. > He's probably answered several of your questions and fixed numerous > issues and added many > features into ApacheDS. Let me not overlook the fact that he has > helped forge MINA, LDAP > Studio and Triplesec. He is equally concerned with every project > we've had here. Most importantly > he's been a sturdy rock in our community, helping it grow and > overcome it's problems. He > understands the value of community over just the code alone. > Emmanuel once said to me, "Open Source is not > a technical phenomenon but a social one. The code just gives us a > reason to come together." > Of course he misspelled phenomenon :). Seriously I don't know > where we would be today without > his presence. Emmanuel will make an ideal Chair, and we're very > lucky to have him. > > So, everyone, let's welcome him with a big applause! > > Regards, > Alex Karasulu >
