Bertand,
Thank you for your support (of me and the project).
My goals have always been to do good work and to get OSGi and the work I
do around it in front of as many people as possible.
My work with OSGi started in December of 2000 while I was an assistant
professor in Berlin; back then very few people cared about what I was
doing...except long-time user Rob Walker. :-)
Back in the early days I was just releasing Oscar on my own web page,
but eventually moved Source Forge in July 2001. I ended up moving to
France to continue my work on Oscar and around OSGi and ended up moving
Oscar to ObjectWeb in February of 2004. I had moved home from France
last year and for most of the past year I funded my work on Oscar and in
the OSGi Alliance out of my personal savings. Now I am back working half
time in France, so I am back to only partially funding my work. :-) I
really care about this stuff.
I am excited by the possibility of getting a chance to keep the momentum
moving forward. The interest expressed by the Apache community since the
announcement of the project has been practically overwhelming, let alone
the Oscar community and OSGi community at large.
Thanks again.
-> richard
Bertrand Delacretaz wrote:
Le 25 juil. 05, à 19:47, Richard S. Hall a écrit :
...My discussion with various Apache people led to my understanding
that there was interest in starting an Apache OSGi project. I agreed
to participate....
And there is indeed a *lot* of interest. The Cocoon team is looking at
OSGI very seriously, we have implemented some OSGI-based stuff
already, and for us the timing couldn't be better for an OSGI
implementation to come to the ASF, as our main concern was having to
depend on an "external" library.
Judging from several conversations last week at ApacheCon, I think
many of us are very thankful for your decision to continue here the
work that you started with Oscar. Some things might need
clarification, but I'm sure many people at the ASF are eager to see
this moving forward.
If having more sponsoring members makes a difference, I'd be happy to
be added to the list.
-Bertrand
