[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Meet the new Dan, same as the old Dan

[Mike Rylander]

<mushiness>
Part of growing (as a software project, individually as developers,
and generally in life) is to open up to others, to let others in, to
be willing to allow others to explore and criticize and help.  Even in
the open source world that's harder than it would seem, and only made
more difficult when your "baby" is a 200k lines-of-code 3 year old
(counting, and I do, the 2 year gestation period).
</mushiness>

All that said, I'm overjoyed to announce that Dan Scott, a long time
contributor of both patches and ideas, has accepted the offer of the
core team to become a committer on the Evergreen project.  It's a
milestone for the project, and Dan's enthusiasm is, to me, a welcome
sign that we're on the right track.

I first met Dan in person at the Windsor University Future of the ILS
Symposium where he needled me about non-English collation support and
interface translation.  Since then he's been leading the charge for
proper I18N, including providing a French-Canadian DTD for the OPAC
and Staff Client.  He's also been producing VMWare images of running
Evergreen development installations for quite some time, and providing
installation support, patches and feedback.

Now I get to step out of his way (being the patch wrangler) and let
him work his magic directly.  It's a nice feeling.

I'd like to note, too, that thanks is due to Laurentian University.
Laurentian has been has been supportive of Dan's efforts with
Evergreen, funding his travel for the AcqFest, and enabling him to
spend some of his office hours on Evergreen development.

Thanks, Dan, and welcome to the team ... again!

-- 
Mike Rylander
Equinox Software, Inc
miker at esilibrary.com
http://esilibrary.com/