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Subject: Re: [shameless plug] My BIO and more...
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From: "Sam Ruby" <rubys@us.ibm.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 14:10:08 -0500
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Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
>
> The Apache spirit is all about communities.

And, as Robert Frost would add "good fences make good neighbors".  The
corollary being that one should respect one's contracts.

> A short story: when I first entered the Apache world, I was scared to
> death by the *mythical* flame-rate on "new-httpd" (the list where the
> Apache HTTPD project was born and was developpped), so much so that I
> *never* ever wrote a single email on that list.

Chuckle.  When I first entered the Apache world, my first greeting was a
flame by Stefano as I desired at the time to make Tomcat 3.0 better.  My
sin?  I also happen to accept monetary compensation from IBM.

> I owe everything I am to the friends that helped me during my Apache
> journey: Federico Barbieri, Pierpaolo Fumagalli, Fabrizio Rovelli, Jon
> Stevens, Brian Behlendorf, James Davidson, Donald Ball, Ricardo Rocha,
> Giacomo Pati, Roy Fielding, Sam Ruby, and thousands of others.

Hey!  How'd my name get in there?  <grin>

- - - - - -

Relative to Cocoon, I wrote the PHP side code that allows PHP to be run as
a servlet.  And the Cocoon side code that allows this servlet to be used as
a generator.

If you want to see some bio on me, here's some links with pictures:

   http://www.activestate.com/Corporate/People/Tech_Board.html#sam
   http://www.zend.com/zend/hof/sam.php

Relative to Apache, my passion at the moment is to see if there is any way
to bootstrap these isolated subproject communities into a larger community.
I'm chair of Jakarta, and a member of the XML PMC.  The most tangible
realization of my efforts is http://jakarta.apache.org/gump/ .  I'm making
progress on getting subprojects to respect their contracts, but I still see
three jars in cocoon's cvs with dates instead of release numbers on them.
Sigh.

I also spend a good amount of time thinking about web services, including
coding and trying to bootstrap a community for this here at ApacheLand.  I
see web services as a platform and language independent component
architecture.

- Sam Ruby


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