Jakarta PMC Nomination Acceptance

2002-02-07 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
Sorry about the delay. I accept the nomination for re-election to the PMC. I have several basic beliefs related to the subject of jakarta governance : o That Java as a platform is facing some challenges, and that open source practitioners, especially the Jakarta project, can help play a big ro

Re: Jakarta PMC nomination acceptance - Sam Ruby.

2002-02-07 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Sam Ruby wrote: > Apparently the rules require me to accept and say a few words. Sorry Sam - but we even have to make -you- do it. Just to keep up the pretense (only once a year of course) that you are one of us mere mortals. Dw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Jakarta PMC nomination acceptance - Sam Ruby.

2002-02-07 Thread Sam Ruby
Apparently the rules require me to accept and say a few words. My first exposure to open source was when I wanted to integrate PHP with Tomcat. I found PHP to be well designed and with a very active community with hundreds of active committers. Soon after I got started, I was shocked to find pe