Introduction thread (because every community needs one)

[Athena]

Hello, my name is Athena. =) I am 17 and currently attending KSU.
Looking forward to meeting new people and getting involved with this project.

[Bill la Forge]

Greetings everyone. Bill here. Got my BS at PSU in computer science in 1971.

I've been working on this project, off and on, since 2002, initially as a project for Norm. Since November 2007 I've been full time on this project. At the urging of several project members, including Naji and Norm, a rewrite from scratch was started in July 2008. Turns out, that was a good idea and I'm very happy with the current code base.

I'm living in India with my wife Rupali and we are currently staying with her family. Not always the most comfortable arrangement, but they are good people and we are able to make ends meet for now on just the interest from our savings. But I'm very much interested in commercialization.

I've learned a lot from working with Norm and have made this project my life's work. I also very much enjoy sharing what I've learned. I believe there are a lot of important ideas here that can help address many of the IT industry's problems, enterprise systems being such a house of cards. Getting systems to work together has become a black art and I know that as a group we can make a big difference.

[Sharath]

Hi,
I'm Sharath (cranky on sourceforge) I have completed engineering degree in computer science. Like to learn new technologies and a linux enthusiast.

[naji]

Hi everyone! This is Naji.

I'm an IT guy, with a "not bad" understanding of software industry, graduated from the engineering school in 2003.

I started following this project for more than a year now, and I started contributing several months ago.

Bill is the BEST teacher I've ever had, and rolonics is the BEST technology I've ever heard of, it's a whole new way of thinking. And that's why I consider Agilewiki is a bless in my life :-)

I'm overloaded in my job lately, and that's why I'm working very slowly on agilewiki! hopefully this will change in a week or three!

[Bill la Forge]

Updated the migration guide to conform to the (as yet unreleased) new code: http://agilewiki.wiki.sourceforge.net/MigrationGuide

Expect a release tomorrow.

[Simon]

I am based in Upstate NY, with a kinda rusted Information technology background. So many intersting things in life .... as it passes by , made me realize a lazy laid back guy cant keep up with all...so now I have decided to follow my niche and dedicate my self to a couple, thought this would be one outdoor sports and emerging technologies. As it goes, innovations happens in community, kudos to Bill for initiating this. Looking forward to learn as well contribute!

[weiteng]

Hi everyone,

Here is weiteng. I'm a .Net programmer from nyc. and would love to improve my programming skill from any opportunity. I programmed java language in few years ago, now really want to re-learn it again. Very glad to find this project :)

Thank you,

Weiteng

[Aaron Barker]

Hey folks. My name is Aaron Barker and I am currently in upstate NY (Albany..). I am currently in school for web development, and should be done in a few months (can't wait to finally finish!). I have taken 2 classes in Java but havent really done much with it at this point. I am currently working as a flash developer for a publishing company.

Have been (sort of) on the project for about a month or two, but havent had a ton of time to dedicate thus far. I hope to remedy that soon and get into the swing of things. This project has had me excited since I first started reading about it, and I look forward to working with all of you.

Aaron

[Aaron Barker]

Where in NY? I'm in Albany...
Simon said:

I am based in Upstate NY, with a kinda rusted Information technology background. So many intersting things in life .... as it passes by , made me realize a lazy laid back guy cant keep up with all...so now I have decided to follow my niche and dedicate my self to a couple, thought this would be one outdoor sports and emerging technologies. As it goes, innovations happens in community, kudos to Bill for initiating this. Looking forward to learn as well contribute!

[Taleb DAHAN]

Greetings everyone, Taleb here. Got my Master in Telecommunication in 2004

I began with this project with my brother Mhd NAJI.
We did meetings about the concept and the idea of the project.
and from this date till now, I entered in the circle of life and the work day and night and I lost my time to work in the project.

But, I'm still involved and I'm still reading things about the project and checking my twitter (username: dahan) to see the evolution of members in the team.

I am trying now to organize my time and to get some time to come back to work again.
I hope, I'll not be late :)

[Bill la Forge]

Never too late. We are going to need to build a support team in any case for custom enhancements once we commercialize. :-)

Taleb DAHAN said:

Greetings everyone, Taleb here. Got my Master in Telecommunication in 2004

I began with this project with my brother Mhd NAJI.
We did meetings about the concept and the idea of the project.
and from this date till now, I entered in the circle of life and the work day and night and I lost my time to work in the project.

But, I'm still involved and I'm still reading things about the project and checking my twitter (username: dahan) to see the evolution of members in the team.

I am trying now to organize my time and to get some time to come back to work again.
I hope, I'll not be late :)

[John Nixon]

Hi
I'm John i have been a developer / analyst for the last 3 years. I want to add a few more projects to my cv and this definitely looks like an interesting project to work on and look forward to getting started.

[Bill la Forge]

Sounds great John! The thing to realize about this project is that, as it matures it gets easier to use. For example, I've been thinking about allowing arbitrary attributes to be used with any Rolon, simply by using a hidden prefix to define a separate namespace and prevent potential name clashes with attributes which have special meaning to the code which implements Rolons.

What we really need right now are some simple applications. The first few will be hard to do, I'm sure. But the real advantage here is that the database is user-object centric. So once we get rolling, applications will be easy to do. And by adding a layer of meta data, most application will not need much code at all (except for the GUI).

Looking to hear more from you!

Bill

John Nixon said:

Hi
I'm John i have been a developer / analyst for the last 3 years. I want to add a few more projects to my cv and this definitely looks like an interesting project to work on and look forward to getting started.