From dirkx@covalent.net Mon Mar 5 17:58:26 2001 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact general-help@xml.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list general@xml.apache.org Received: (qmail 17965 invoked from network); 5 Mar 2001 17:58:26 -0000 Received: from sfo-gw.covalent.net (HELO mobile.webweaving.org) (207.44.198.62) by h31.sny.collab.net with SMTP; 5 Mar 2001 17:58:26 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mobile.webweaving.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f25Hu3D23891 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 09:56:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dirkx@covalent.net) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 09:56:03 -0800 (PST) From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik X-Sender: dirkx@localhost To: general@xml.apache.org Subject: Re: Volunteers: First Cut In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20010304133043.0080f680@chebucto.ns.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Rating: h31.sny.collab.net 1.6.2 0/1000/N Thanks Arved, Sorry if you feel shanghaied into this. I'll buy you a beer next time we see F2F to make up for it. Dw On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Arved Sandstrom wrote: > At 07:03 PM 3/3/01 -0800, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: > >On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Sam Ruby wrote: > >> P.S. Arved nearly volunteered. Can I nominate him? > >Arved - whadoyathink ? > > After telling 2 fellow FOP committers that I wasn't planning to, I'll turn > around and go for it anyway. Mainly because I can't deny a strong interest > in Apache organization above the sub-project level; also, as some of you > know, I've been blowing off at the mouth about stuff like that for months, > and it's time to actually do something. > > I thought about it for a bit - my primary concern was possible impacts on > time that I have for FOP. It occurs to me though that with XML Apache stuff > I can make good use of short time snippets, of which I have quite a few, and > which are not very useful to me as a FOP coder anyway. I expect little to no > impact on my FOP efforts, which are priority for me. > > Without further ado: > > 1. Arved Sandstrom > ========================================================== > 2. FOP committer, ASF member > 3. Supportive employer (e-plicity, Halifax, Nova Scotia); no conflicting > affiliations. > 4. I am currently immersed in XML and Java, both here and at work. I'm > very strongly oriented to problem-solving; my background is physics and > scientific programming. So it's not so much XML that interests me, as the > fact that I think it's a great data format, and I'm a data formats > aficionado. I support the use of Java not because I love it (I don't) but > because it is a fine GP open-source programming language. I started out with > XML through XML::Parser porting work, back around the 2.16 version, both C > and Perl. > I'm interested in describing and documenting the > product/project/software lifecycles that we have here, with a view to > understanding what we do well, what we don't do so well, and helping get > improvements in place. I'm a processes guy, and have both experience and > formal background in software engineering as opposed to programming alone. I > share the perspective that sees us solving various problems - > infrastructure, web publishing, print publishing, etc - and would like to > explore how we can orient our process focus and user experience (buzzword > alert!) towards our solutions to problem categories. > I'm highly cognizant that we also have open-source goals and open-source > conditions that do not apply to business - continuous user input and > promotion of our community are just a few of those. I think those are our > strengths, and I think it would be really neat to capture and formalize (to > some degree) what it is that we do (and can do) under these conditions. So I > see part of XML Apache (projects and PMC) innovation as being innovation in > process. > As others have stated about themselves, I'm not afraid to roll up the > sleeves. I like testing (yeah, there are a few of us weirdos), documentation > (getting worse...), and I have been known to code Webbish stuff. > > Fairly Senior Software Type > e-plicity (http://www.e-plicity.com) > Wireless * B2B * J2EE * XML --- Halifax, Nova Scotia > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > In case of troubles, e-mail: webmaster@xml.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscribe@xml.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-help@xml.apache.org >