Hi Michael,
Thank you for your kind words! You make my day! :-) And thanks to
everyone who is trying out our tools and putting up with our bugs, and
spreading good words to their friends about Simile.
Stefano and Ben always talk about community building... and Stefano will
present about it at ApacheCon
http://simile.mit.edu/blog/?p=32
but I haven't realized its importance until recently. It takes all kinds
of skill... from software engineering, conducting research, guiding
research, prototyping, to maintaining liaisons, being vigilant with
bugs, spams, and infrastructure performance, and more. The harder it is
to name the skill, the more important it seems.
I'm looking forward to see friendly faces at my talk... it'll help
greatly since I'm always nervous during public speaking. :-)
I think we're all having fun here... Let the fun be had for a long, long
time!
David
Michael K. Bergman wrote:
> To All,
>
> I know everyone on this list appreciates the many great folks at MIT
> that contribute to our enjoyment about Piggy Bank, RDFizers, Exhibit,
> Timeline, Longwell, you name it, and the good friendship, and great and
> responsive code! Thanks to all of you, very, very much.
>
> There are certainly others who will be there, but I'd like to
> specifically thank David Huynh and wish him well on his Exhibit
> presentation. See David's reference about that here:
>
> http://simile.mit.edu/blog/?p=31
> and also note the really cool past Exhibit display of WWW papers (this
> *really* deserves some promotion to the WWW 2007 folks!).
>
> Hey, guys. It is really up to each of us on this list to do what we can
> to let the world know what great stuff is happening here. I know, for
> myself, that I'm not a code jockey nor theoretical thinker in the same
> league as these folks.
>
> But, what I *do* know, is to a person, everyone associated with Simile
> is responsive and showing all of us how innovation, open source and
> multiple project code management can occur simultaneously. And, oh,
> BTW, most of these folks are also trying to carve out the time for
> family and advanced degrees!!!!
>
> Simile folks, you rock, and you get it! Thanks so much. I hope that
> the kudos and responses everyone gets in the hall at WWW 2007 show you
> just a fraction of how much all of us out there in the Web ether
> appreciate your super efforts.
>
> /*signed*/ All of us who benefit from your work
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