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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev]  Re: New developer: Ahmed Ammar (b33fc0d3)
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 04:29:56 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan.2008.03.30.04.29.56@cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1206840815.11943.5.camel@wlt.obsidian-studios.com

"William L. Thomson Jr." <wltjr@gentoo.org> posted
1206840815.11943.5.camel@wlt.obsidian-studios.com, excerpted below, on 
Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:33:35 -0400:

> On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 23:41 +0200, Petteri Räty wrote:
>> Joining us from the land of the pyramids, we have Ahmed "b33fc0d3"
>> Ammar. Although originally from Egypt
> 
> Welcome, finally! So do you code like an Egyptian? :) 80s pun

How many here will be old enough to get that?  <raises hand, um, 
hopefully not too soon cane>

> For all you that don't know, Ahmed here has a interest in open source
> Java. Others pointed me to a icedtea/openjdk ebuild he had in google
> development space. It should be hitting an overlay soon, either
> java-experiment or java-overlay.
> 
> So for all your open source java fetishes, Ahmed is your man. If that's
> not throwing him the under the bus and on the barbie afterward. :)

Definitely welcome, then!  As a FLOSS-only user I've been waiting for a 
decent full open source Java implementation in the tree for awhile, so 
anyone and anything that is movement in that direction is certainly 
welcome here! =8^)

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-30  4:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-28 21:41 [gentoo-dev] New developer: Ahmed Ammar (b33fc0d3) Petteri Räty
2008-03-29  3:05 ` Robin H. Johnson
2008-03-29  7:25 ` Peter Weller
2008-03-29  8:03 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ali Polatel
2008-03-29 10:35 ` Christian Faulhammer
2008-03-30  1:33 ` [gentoo-dev] " William L. Thomson Jr.
2008-03-30  4:29   ` Duncan [this message]
2008-03-30 23:34 ` Jan Kundrát

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