> > With 13 binding +1, 1 non binding, and one "accordez moi",
> I'm pleased to
> > announce that this vote passed successfully.
> >
> > Nicolas, we are honoured to welcome you as a new Apache Ant committer.
> >
> > I will contact you in private to give you some details on what you need to
> > do now to wear your ASF committer hat :-)
> >
> > Welcome aboard!
>
>
> I am honoured to be part of the Apache family. :)
>
> Following the tradition let's introduce myself.
>
> I am 27 years old, french, and I live in Toulouse, while
> being in the heart a
> mediterranean as all my childhood was in front of the see.
>
> I started to not only use computers but try to improve them
> with a Ti-89
> calculator [1]. So I started at a very low level with some
> 68k asm, and then
> I quickly learned C to avoid some headache.
>
> Then I discovered Java in my french engineering school which
> I found pretty
> cool in transforming segmentation faults into NPEs. After my
> graduation I did
> an internship at Anyware Technologies where I discovered the web
> applications, the open source and the Apache Foundation via
> Sylvain Wallez.
> Thank you Sylvain for introducing me to the Apache projects,
> but most of all
> to the community aspect of the foundation.
>
> Working on different projects I learned first about Cocoon,
> then I did some
> Eclipse plugins. After that I deeply looked into Lucene, also
> OpenRDF, and
> learned about Ivy after some maven frustration. I also get
> interested by
> Husdon, did an Ivy plugin and became a committer there. Then
> little on my own
> (I would like to thank my managers to allow me to do so) I
> decided to try to
> make IvyDE work because I was bugging me and a lot of my
> colleagues, forcing
> us to use some tricks. I had some difficulties to enter into
> the Eclipse JDT
> framework, but some thread on the ivy user mailing list keep
> me investigating
> bugs. Now that I know deeper Eclipse, I will continue to
> improve IvyDE
> because I think that even if Ant + Ivy can be a standalone
> core build system,
> tools for users do make the difference between a application
> and a great
> application.
>
> Thank you everyone!
>
> Nicolas
>
> [1] http://www.hibnet.org/ti.php
>
> PS: special dedication to my father who wrote me a dedication in his
> book : "you have to contribute to the open source !". Done dad ! ;)



Welcome Nicolas.
Maybe you could update the committer page when you have commit rights.

Jan

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