Congratulations Erik! Keep up the good work and thanks for your contributions.
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:16 AM, Om <bigosma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi folks, > > Please join me in welcoming Erik de Bruin as Apache Flex's newest committer > and PPMC member. Erik has been a vocal participant on the mailing list and > has been contributing some high quality work, mostly in the > InstallApacheFlex app and related tools. We all look forward to his > contributions as an Apache Committer. > > Erik, asking to be made a committer on the list usually does not work, but > you backed it up with a lot of very good patches :-) Thanks for your > contributions so far, and we expect more in the future! > > Regards, > Om > > Just a bit about Erik in his own words: > ================== > I'm a 40-something (ancient, I know ;-) > and I live in Utrecht, the Netherlands. I have had my own > coding/consulting company, Ix Multimedia Software, since 1996. The > main focus of my company is on eLearning. > > Ever since my previous love, Macromedia's Authorware, died, I have > been an avid Flex coder. I am the architect for a couple of large and > countless small(er) projects. I think Flex is the perfect environment > for writing the client side presentation of large datasets and media > living somewhere on a server. > > After lurking around the Apache Flex community for a couple of months, > I found that I started to worry a bit about how the project would make > it's wonderful product available to developers everywhere. OmPrakash > Muppirala (Om) hit upon a great idea to build an installer application > that takes away the 'hassle' of fetching the SDK from the Apache Flex > website (and various other locations) and adding it to the user's IDE. > I started working with Om to make that app a success, and I plan on > continuing that work, as well as actively trying to get the various > parties (I'm looking at you, Spoon) to host (a link to) this installer > app, in order to increase the availability and accessibility of the > SDK. And I'm sure that there are a couple of other things that I might > be able to help with as well ;-) > > I look forward to being a committer and working with all of you, > > EdB > ================== >
