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/[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 > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/-OT--Waxing-nostalgic-tf3360307.html#a9368292 Sent from the mina dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
