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Revision Changes Path 1.3 +94 -67 jakarta-struts/doc/volunteers.xml Index: volunteers.xml =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/jakarta-struts/doc/volunteers.xml,v retrieving revision 1.2 retrieving revision 1.3 diff -u -r1.2 -r1.3 --- volunteers.xml 19 Mar 2002 07:50:19 -0000 1.2 +++ volunteers.xml 24 Mar 2002 09:25:01 -0000 1.3 @@ -1,23 +1,23 @@ <?xml version="1.0"?> <document url="./volunteers.xml"> <properties> -<author>Ted Husted</author> +<author>Ted Husted</author> <title>The Struts User's Guide - Who We Are</title> </properties> -<body> -<chapter name="Who We Are" href="whoWeAre"> +<body> +<chapter name="Who We Are" href="whoWeAre"> <section name="The Meritocracy" href="meritocracy"> <p>All work on Struts is contributed by volunteers whose only motivation -is to help make Struts work even better, both for themselves and for rest of the community.</p> -<p>All contributions are welcome, and may be discussed and posted on the mailing lists. -The final decision of what becomes part of the official distribution is made by a group of -<a href="#committers">Committers</a>. For more about Meritocracy, see the -<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/roles.html";>Management page</a> on the +is to help make Struts work even better, both for themselves and for rest of the community.</p> +<p>All contributions are welcome, and may be discussed and posted on the mailing lists. +The final decision of what becomes part of the official distribution is made by a group of +<a href="#committers">Committers</a>. For more about Meritocracy, see the +<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/roles.html";>Management page</a> on the Apache Jarakta Website.</p> </section> -<section name="Source Code Contributors" href="contributors.source"> +<section name="Source Code Contributors" href="contributors.source"> <ul> <li>Arron Bates</li> <li>Arun M. Thomas</li> @@ -35,12 +35,12 @@ <li>Niall Pemberton</li> <li>Ralph Schaer</li> <li>Rob Leland</li> -<li>Sean Kelly</li> +<li>Sean M. Kelly</li> <li>Ted Husted</li> </ul> </section> -<section name="User Guide Contributors" href="contributors.documentation"> +<section name="User Guide Contributors" href="contributors.documentation"> <ul> <li>Arron Bates</li> <li>Chris Assenza</li> @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ </ul> </section> -<section name="Active Committers" href="committers"> +<section name="Active Committers" href="committers"> <ul> <li><b>Craig R. McClanahan</b> (craigmcc at apache.org)</li> <li><b>Michael Schachter</b> (mschachter at apache.org)</li> @@ -69,14 +69,14 @@ <li><b>Vincent Massol</b> (vmassol at apache.org)</li> <li><b>Cedric Dumoulin</b> (cedric.dumoulin at lifl.fr)</li> <li><b>Martin Cooper</b> (martinc at apache.org)</li> -<li><b>David Winterfeldt</b> (dwinterfeldt at apache.org)</li> +<li><b>David Winterfeldt</b> (dwinterfeldt at apache.org)</li> <li><b>Oleg Alexeev</b> (oalexeev at apache.org)</li> -<li><b>Arron Bates</b> (arron at apache.org)</li> +<li><b>Arron Bates</b> (arron at apache.org)</li> </ul> </section> -<section name="Emeritus Committers" href="comitters.emeritus"> +<section name="Emeritus Committers" href="comitters.emeritus"> <ul> <li>David Geary</li> <li>Luis Arias</li> @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ <p>I'm currently a student of computer science at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. I've been working at HP Middleware, formerly -Bluestone Software for 3 years programming in +Bluestone Software for 3 years programming in Java and recently J2EE technologies. I'm a full time worker from September until April and a student and part time worker from April until August. @@ -182,10 +182,10 @@ 1992, Dart was awarded the Digital Quill for software excellence, featured in PC Magazine (February 1992), and bundled with McGraw Hill's bookset,"Paperless Publishing" by Colin Hayes (McGraw Hill 1994). Dart -won a second Digital Quill in 1993. Several titles that used Iris for a -publishing system have also won awards and been widely distributed, -including "Hermitville USA." I was also fortunate to find kindred souls -on CompuServe and America Online, who helped me pioneer resources areas +won a second Digital Quill in 1993. Several titles that used Iris for a +publishing system have also won awards and been widely distributed, +including "Hermitville USA." I was also fortunate to find kindred souls +on CompuServe and America Online, who helped me pioneer resources areas there in 1993 and 1994 for the nascent electronic publishing industry.</p> <p>I finally cut loose on the Internet in 1995, launching Epub News, an @@ -200,15 +200,15 @@ print-book idea), and I had a lot of fun bringing it forward onto the Web. (Now, if I only had time to bring it current and dress it up!)</p> -<p>My favorite all-time client is is WXXI Public Broadcasting Council, -where I've served as the station's Webmaster. WXXI provides public -broadcasting services for television and radio, and we are working to do +<p>My favorite all-time client is is WXXI Public Broadcasting Council, +where I've served as the station's Webmaster. WXXI provides public +broadcasting services for television and radio, and we are working to do the same online. Along with providing companion Web sites for every WXXI -production, we stream both our AM and FM signals, in both Real and -QuickTime, with online archives in the works. It's a long journey, but -we've taken the first steps. I'm responsible for most of the regular -updates to the site, and much of the overall layout and design. We're -grateful to have won the PBS award for best Web site in our market for +production, we stream both our AM and FM signals, in both Real and +QuickTime, with online archives in the works. It's a long journey, but +we've taken the first steps. I'm responsible for most of the regular +updates to the site, and much of the overall layout and design. We're +grateful to have won the PBS award for best Web site in our market for two years running.</p> <p>Our most ambitious projects at WXXI have been Spring Marketplace 2000 @@ -220,8 +220,8 @@ developed the Web-enabled database applications for both projects.</p> <p>Currently, I'm expanding the WXXI online auction software into a -complete package for hosting online auctions as fund-raisers; this is -to be an open-source project called Gavel, and, of course, is +complete package for hosting online auctions as fund-raisers; this is +to be an open-source project called Gavel, and, of course, is based on Struts. </p> <h3><a name="cedric">Cedric Dumoulin -- Committer</a></h3> @@ -231,67 +231,94 @@ found Struts. Struts goals fulfilled nearly all I needed for my (now old) portal project, except the capability to reuse and assemble easily pieces of pages or components. So, I have proposed the Components framework. This -framework can be seen as a superset of the Templates tag library contributed +framework can be seen as a superset of the Templates tag library contributed by David Geary, and contains lot of interesting features.</p> <p>From a professional point of view, I have a Ph.D. in computer science. I have -worked for 3 years in the R&D department of a worldwide company developing -Internet banking solutions. I am now a researcher at a university, and work -on European research projects. My main research interest is WWW, Distributed -Systems and Object Oriented Design. When developing code, I always try to +worked for 3 years in the R&D department of a worldwide company developing +Internet banking solutions. I am now a researcher at a university, and work +on European research projects. My main research interest is WWW, Distributed +Systems and Object Oriented Design. When developing code, I always try to first propose reusable pieces of code.</p> <h3><a name="martinc">Martin Cooper -- Committer</a></h3> -<p>Currently, I'm a Principal Software Engineer at Tumbleweed Communications, -working on the Messaging Management System. Early last year (2000), I was -working on the architecture for a new web-based administration system for -the product, and headed in the direction of servlets and JSP. I joined the -JSP-INTEREST and SERVLET-INTEREST mailing lists to see what was going on in +<p>Currently, I'm a Principal Software Engineer at Tumbleweed Communications, +working on the Messaging Management System. Early last year (2000), I was +working on the architecture for a new web-based administration system for +the product, and headed in the direction of servlets and JSP. I joined the +JSP-INTEREST and SERVLET-INTEREST mailing lists to see what was going on in those respective areas.</p> -<p>Before too long, some interesting discussions started up around the topic -of Model 2 architectures. Model 2 sounded like the right way to go about -things, and I followed those discussions closely. I was, however, still +<p>Before too long, some interesting discussions started up around the topic +of Model 2 architectures. Model 2 sounded like the right way to go about +things, and I followed those discussions closely. I was, however, still looking for a "leg up" - something to give me that core on which to build.</p> -<p>Then, in May, I saw a post to JSP-INTEREST from Craig McClanahan entitled -something like "New Jakarta-Struts Subproject", and describing Struts, and -his vision for it. I hopped right over to the Jakarta web site and signed -up for the mailing list. Before long, I realised this was exactly what I +<p>Then, in May, I saw a post to JSP-INTEREST from Craig McClanahan entitled +something like "New Jakarta-Struts Subproject", and describing Struts, and +his vision for it. I hopped right over to the Jakarta web site and signed +up for the mailing list. Before long, I realised this was exactly what I had been looking for.</p> -<p>Now, a year or so later, we have a team of people, on which I am the -technical lead, just finishing up our web-based administration system as -Struts reaches its 1.0 release. And I am still firmly convinced that I made +<p>Now, a year or so later, we have a team of people, on which I am the +technical lead, just finishing up our web-based administration system as +Struts reaches its 1.0 release. And I am still firmly convinced that I made the right decision in going with Struts in the first place.</p> -<p>Like anyone else, my first postings to the struts-user list were questions -to help me understand how to do things, and why Struts is the way it is. -Over time, reading the lists and also the source code, and working on my -own fairly large web application, I came to the point where I could answer -questions too. Now, I'm glad to be able to give something back to the -Struts community by helping others understand, and also by contributing +<p>Like anyone else, my first postings to the struts-user list were questions +to help me understand how to do things, and why Struts is the way it is. +Over time, reading the lists and also the source code, and working on my +own fairly large web application, I came to the point where I could answer +questions too. Now, I'm glad to be able to give something back to the +Struts community by helping others understand, and also by contributing ideas and code to help make Struts even better than it already is.</p> <h3><a name="dwinterfeldt">David Winterfeldt -- Committer</a></h3> -<p>As I worked on web based projects I started looking for something +<p>As I worked on web based projects I started looking for something that would really help save time during development. I ran across -Struts in the Summer of 2000 and -decided it was a good solution for web development. As I used Struts -it really helped to remove a lot of the repetitive work, +Struts in the Summer of 2000 and +decided it was a good solution for web development. As I used Struts +it really helped to remove a lot of the repetitive work, but validation still seemed very repetitive. -I had an idea to create validation rules in an xml file and have them -easily integrated with Struts. It started out simple and continued to -develop over time. The validation project was eventually incorporated -into Struts and the core was moved to Jakarta Commons. I'm happy to see +I had an idea to create validation rules in an xml file and have them +easily integrated with Struts. It started out simple and continued to +develop over time. The validation project was eventually incorporated +into Struts and the core was moved to Jakarta Commons. I'm happy to see Struts continue to grow and develop.</p> -<p>I currently am employed at Forbes.com. I occasionaly get -to do some internal projects using Struts. The last interesting -project was a publishing system using Message Driven EJBs in JBoss +<p>I currently am employed at Forbes.com. I occasionaly get +to do some internal projects using Struts. The last interesting +project was a publishing system using Message Driven EJBs in JBoss and Struts was used to display the status of each publishing process.</p> + +<h3><a name="rleland">Rob Leland -- Committer</a></h3> + +<p>I have gone from Unix -to- Windows -to- Unix based development about +ever 6 years now. When working with Unix I was involved in distributed +multi-process applications using C++. When going to windows I was amazed +at how primitive the OS was compared to Unix. Six years later it was deja-vue all over +again, the Unix platform hadn't changed one bit. While developing for +Win32 I had the pleasure of discovering Delphi early on and convinced +my company we should use it for our windows applications. I developed +many database, telephony, internet enabled +applications. I also experimented with multi-tier applications. +I remain impressed with it's design. I never failed to develop a simple +elegant solution with the language. I was convinced after 10 years of +development with C/C++ that it was a kinder gentler language. +</p> + +<p>Then in July 2000 I decided to move into Java, and the Web. +I had been hired to take over a JSP based application. I realized +it had been written with the equivalent of "goto's"(Model 1) and +had to be redesigned. I searched for a better way to design the code +and by late August I had found struts.</p> + +<p>Days after I had been voted a struts committer illness struck my family and +my work demanded more time, and I was married. To date I have mainly served to +pitch in when I have time. I feel lucky to be part of the struts team. </p> + <p>Next: <a href="index.html">Struts Home</a></p>
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