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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 13:17:21 +0200
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From: Bert Van Kets <bert@vankets.com>
Subject: Re: [VOTE] Jeff Turner
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At 12:43 13/09/2002 +0200, you wrote:

>Morrison, John wrote:
>>So far:
>>Stefano Mazzocchi
>>Sam Ruby
>>John Morrison        +1
>>David Crossley
>>Steven Noels         +1
>
>  Nicola Ken Barozzi    +1
>
>If history tells me something, once getting karma Jeff will stop 
>contributing ;-) but hey, al least he can apply the current patches ;-P

I'd like to counter this one, but haven't found a shop that sells time.  My 
days are missing about 24 hours each day. :-(
Once I get control again over my time (at the moment it's the other way 
around) I'll definitely start contributing again.
I received the Cocoon book by Matthew and Carsten yesterday.  This will 
come in handy to start developing the ideas I have in my head. (It's way 
cool to see my name on the reviewer's page :-D)
I also received a CSS book by Eric Meyer.  I can certainly recommend this 
one.  From what I read in it, it must be possible to lighten the Forrest 
skin by several kilobytes by using CSS in a balanced way and still get a 
good looking page in older browsers.  Not an easy task, but well worth the 
effort if you ask me.
I'm Technical Editing a book by Andy King on "web site optimization" for 
New Riders.  The info in this one will come in handy at this task. It seems 
that a skin html code reduction of 50% is feasible!
IMHO this is very important if we want to promote the forrest skin to the 
other Apache projects.

Bert


>>Bert Van Kets        +1
>>People not in status.xml!
>>Konstantin Piroumian +1
>>Marc Portier
>>People in the cvs group xml-forrest
>>twl, dirkx?
>
>--
>Nicola Ken Barozzi                   nicolaken@apache.org
>             - verba volant, scripta manent -
>    (discussions get forgotten, just code remains)
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