From: Paul L. <pa...@sq...> - 2007-04-18 08:53:35
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Hello all, I'd like to introduce to the community some new SquirrelMail developers who have joined us by way of Google's Summer of Code program. They will be working with us through the (Northern hemisphere) summer to complete a couple projects, and after that, we hope that they will be sticking around for good. ;-) Please join me in welcoming them and please help us as we sort through all the ideas for these projects and build the most useful set of requirements for ultimate implementation. We plan to have most all of our conversations about these projects here on the development mailing list (and some on the plugins mailing list as necessary), and as always, all comers are welcome to our conversations. Antoine Delignat-Lavaud is a Mathematics and Physics (oh, AND Computer Science!) student from France. Antoine is the one and only author of phpWebmail, and after learning a lot from it, he should be bringing some always-welcome security paranoia when working with Thijs on a new configuration (and maybe help) system. Zach Segal will be participating from Florida state in the US, where he is studying Computer Science, which is probably a breeze for him given already having five years experience on the ground doing not-so-trivial coding for a local ISP. He'll be working with Thijs and Antoine to nail down and execute the configuration and preferences system that we've been day-dreaming about. Zach wrote a beautiful project proposal for us (hmmm, maybe we can rope him into writing some documentation!) Ramesh Kumar Tippabhotla comes to us by way of India, as a fourth-year masters-level student: http://ramukhsemar.googlepages.com. Ramesh will be working with Keith (see below) and myself on implementing the much-talked-about new plugin management system for the SquirrelMail website. Oooo, can't wait for this! D. Keith Casey Jr. is from Washington D.C. in the US, working on a masters in electrical engineering of all things ;-) : http://CaseySoftware.com/blog. He is a seasoned OSS developer working on the dotProject application, and he will be bringing his experience to the table to help build the aforementioned plugin management system with Ramesh and myself. Again, please help me welcome these folks into the SM fold, and look for some new discussion threads in the coming weeks where we start to nail down some specifications for the projects that will start to ramp up as summer approaches. Thanks, Paul |