Re: [VOTE] [OT] Waxing nostalgic

[Coding Horse <zh...@hotmail.com>]

I'm really moved reading this.  Hat off to you and Trustin and all the
contributors !


Alex Karasulu-2 wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been looking at several things lately in life WRT my involvement in
> Open Source.  I'm partly suffering from a bit of OSS burn out ... nothing
> that
> a long lazy vacation can't cure tho.
> 
> I caught Trustin on IM this evening and it's been too long since we spoke
> last.  We were just chatting about life mostly and getting status on
> what's
> happening to
> each other these days.  I was telling him just how strong MINA and it's
> community is
> and was thankful for all his efforts here at the ASF.
> 
> Later on, I was Googling for old Directory emails to hunt down an ancient
> technical
> conversation when I came across this email from way back:
> 
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/directory-dev/200409.mbox/%3c20040906230648.KGPP1721.imf16aec.mail.bellsouth.net@mail.bellsouth.net%3e
> 
> I had to read it again.  It was the start of something wonderful.  I was
> very lucky to
> have met this very nice, intelligent and hard working fellow.  He really
> made a
> big difference at Directory and the ASF.
> 
> When trying to grow a community you come across many kinds of people from
> all walks of life.  You help hundreds of users and spend countless hours
> trying to
> get new perspective committers up to speed with the concepts, the source
> code, the
> build system (especially when it's Maven :) ) etc.   It's tiring and most
> people just
> don't stick around.   But on occasion you find a real gem in a ton of coal
> that
> makes the community building effort completely worth the expenditure and
> then
> some.
> 
> On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 I hit the jack pot!
> 
> Thanks T!
> Alex
> 
> 

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