Dear Friends, Thank you for electing me to be a committer to Tika. I gratefully accept, and look forward to working together with you to advance Tika to a mature product that earns the wide use and respect of our peers and ourselves. Given the quality of the participants here, and Jukka's expert leadership, I have no doubt that this will happen soon.
You all seem to work so well together, despite the diverse locations, time zones, and native languages. Such crosscultural collaboration is a welcome respite from the competition and conflict of today's world; it is a reassuring reminder that we humans can work together productively and in harmony after all. How ironic that we software engineers, reputed to lack social skills, have something so socially valuable to teach the world! As recent events illustrate, I am not yet familiar with the subculture of open source collaboration. ;) If someone could point me in the right direction (or guide me away from the wrong one ;) ), I'd appreciate it. Bertrand invited me to say a little about myself. I'm originally from New York City, and moved to the Washington DC area almost 20 years ago. I've been programming since about 1981, the past few years of which were with Java. I'm interested in finding newer and better tools for my work, and want to add Ruby and/or Groovy to my toolbox soon. (It's not that I think Java should be replaced with either of them; however, I think there are many jobs for which Java is not the right tool.) Java Swing and software internationalization are previous areas of concentration for me. I enjoy international travel and have spent time in Canada, Asia, Europe, and Africa, and Latin America. I am interested in languages, and have studied some to varying degrees; in descending order of skill level, there is French, Swedish, Korean, and homeopathic quantities of Spanish, Japanese, Tagalog, and Thai. I love music too, especially a cappella. At some point in the future I hope to live and work outside the U.S. again, because I believe the diversity would give me a more balanced outlook and a richer life experience. Again, thanks for your trust. I look forward to meeting you all in person someday. Feel free to contact me with any concerns, advice, or feedback. Regards, Keith P.S. I'd like my id to be kbennett. Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > > Dear Tika community, > > I'm pleased to announce that Keith Bennett (([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has > been elected as a Tika committer by the Tika podling PMC and the > incubator PMC (as required by the incubator policies, both must vote, > see [1]). > > [1] http://incubator.apache.org/guides/ppmc.html > [2] http://people.apache.org/~jim/committers.html > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Please-welcome-Keith-Bennett-as-a-Tika-committer%21-tf4586151.html#a13107428 Sent from the Apache Tika - Development mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
