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Subject: Re: Special Thanks to Andrew Rist
From: Dave Fisher <dave2wave@comcast.net>
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Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 09:51:41 -0700
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Andrew has been absolutely critical and rock steady!

It was great to meet him at Apachecon NA last November!

Best Regards,
Dave

On May 9, 2012, at 9:46 AM, Rob Weir wrote:

> As we celebrate the release of Apache OpenOffice 3.4, I want to just
> take moment to recognize one project member who has been very busy,
> but also very quiet.
> 
> The transition from Oracle to Apache did not end with Oracle
> submitting an SGA.  That was just the beginning.  From coordinating
> domain name transfers, to helping transition the many legacy online
> services, to handling administrative requests on legacy servers, to
> updating license info in source files, and on and on, including stuff
> I probably don't even know about.  Oh, yes, and then he somehow found
> time to get the buildbots running.
> 
> So thanks, Andrew, for your steady work on transitioning the project
> to Apache, and thanks as well to Oracle for making your efforts
> possible.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -Rob