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/[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
