Ladies and gentlemen, Well I wouldn't say that it is a tradition, since we don't really have traditions in this group but I feel that this group of ours has changed, for the better, for a lot better, in the past 4 months. Those that have been around since the beginning can attest that we have grown to a point nobody really expected and that the energy level in this group is still sky high. There is talent joining us by the day and there isn't a week that goes by without a fight being taken on by the developers of the group. It makes me very proud. Some of you may have noticed that I haven't been able to put the energy in development and overseeing the list, or even updating the news on the website. That is because I have been putting my energy into preparing my training classes. Open Source doesn't yet pay the mortgage. There has been a lot of demand for the training and I can foresee that in the near future I will need help in giving these trainings. I need to limit myself in the number of trainings that I will be giving, so as not to spread myself too thin and neglect core development. I hope to devote 3 weeks a month to development in the coming months. Since we cannot live on code alone, training is but one of the commercial aspects that I envision, along with documentation, books, and soon massive support -- for JBoss Group, the group of Open Source programmers, to become a self supporting entity. In this way I can 1- reward the most talented of you 2- make sure that you can spend time developing JBoss without sacrificing income. On another note, I am paying Larry Rosen, a well known Open Source Lawyer and an executive director of the OSI, to work with me and SUN to get certification for JBoss. It looks like things might be bright for EJB2.0 and that will give us a clear goal to achieve as a group. I know we can achieve this certification. Anne Thomas Manes a Director with SUN microsystems, working for the VP of developer relationships is our FRIEND in this effort. For the moment, I am not sure SUN is aware of the extent to which people love JBoss technology. We may not be BEA or WebSphere, but people love us, godammit. Polite letters of support, a "we need JBoss" or just a "this is how I use JBoss everyday", or simply a "JBoss Roxxs" to Anne would be welcome. Again please be very nice, very polite, she truly is our friend. This is not a flame call or anything, more like a modern version of the "petition" letter. Please send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and again, be very nice. And that is it my friends. We are going to finish this compatibility and truly become the third success of Open Source Technology, we are almost there. Thanks for being here, thanks for sticking around, thanks for making JBoss what it is today, PLgC marc _________________ Marc Fleury, Ph.D [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________ _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user
