Re: [ecf-dev] Nomination of Roland Fru as ECF committer. Committers plea

[Chris Aniszczyk <zx@xxxxxxxxxx>]

+1

Cheers,

~ Chris

Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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	Subject:	[ecf-dev] Nomination of Roland Fru as ECF committer. Committers please vote
	From:	Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> - Thursday, October 19, 2006, 09:29 AM
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Hi Folks,

I would like to nominate Roland Fru as a new ECF committer.

Roland has been contributing to the ECF project for the past ~5 months 
working on a Jingle-based implementation of the call API.  He has deep 
experience with developing VOIP infrastructure...for example, he is 
primarily responsible for implementing a commercial softphone associated 
with the yakacall service (http://www.yakacall.com).  He is very 
experienced in Java, he has also worked with the Asterisk open source 
PBX, as a user, administrator, and programmer 
(http://www.asterisk.org).   Roland is also a contributor to the Joomla 
project (http://dev.joomla.org/).  Roland has setup and been running our 
Asterisk server at the OSU Open Source Lab, and would now like to be 
able to contribute directly to the call API development, provider 
implementation, and subsequent exemplary app development as a committer.

Also, Roland recently attended Eclipse summit Europe and had time to 
pose for a picture (front left):  
http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Eclipse_Communication_Framework_Project

Below is a short note from Roland.  I will send a copy of Roland's 
resume directly to the existing committers in a separate email.  If you 
want to communicate directly with Roland, his email is:  
roland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.

All committers please vote +1=approve, -1=disapprove, 0=no vote. 

Scott's vote:  +1

Scott

-------Statement from Roland below-----------------

My reasons for wanting to become an Eclipse Committer could be 
summarized as follows:

Open Source in general is gaining ground both as a technology and 
solution provider. I use open source technologies very often in my daily 
work as a consultant/developer and that explains my affinity to the open 
source domain. I am also conscious of the fact that the organic growth 
of Open Source software products and frameworks is mainly possible due 
to the contribution of the developers that commit time, knowledge and 
effort into such projects. With over 7 years experience with Java & 
Communication technologies, ECF is a natural choice for me to give back 
something to Eclipse which I discovered in its early days as an IDE and 
now as a framework. I also participate actively in the Joomla CMS project.

Having roots in West Africa, I am also concerned about economic growth 
as a means to reduce poverty and hunger in the region. Providing 
enabling technologies to support businesses in general in cutting 
transaction costs is, in my opinion, a giant leap in that direction. 
Open Source communications technologies in particular represent an 
affordable means to that effect e.g. bundling ECF with existing back-end 
solutions will open up possibilities to small businesses which would 
otherwise have been unaffordable for them. This also is one of the 
reasons why I want to become a committer on the ECF project.

Greetz,

Roland.

 


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