Introducing a new netjuke maintainer.

Hello there everybody,

Well it has been a lot of fun, but it is now time for me to pass my 
maintainer responsibilities to a new project leader, Blake Watters.

Since November, and the last release, I find myself with too little 
time to invest in the development, maintenance and support of the 
netjuke and its community... Slowing down the momentum that the project 
has acquired being the last of my wishes, I have decided that the best 
thing would be for me to find someone who will be able to focus as much 
of his time and attention to the project as I used to when I was 
self-employed and "only" had one kid. To a lot of extents, the netjuke 
being my "3rd child", it would have tremendously pained me to see it 
die because of my lack of time and/or attention, hence why I came down 
to this conclusion, after thinking about it for a few weeks.

Blake, who is working at/for/with ibiblio.org, has been using and 
submitting patches for the netjuke for quite a while now, and he has 
proven to be extremely reliable and talented in both the code that he 
provided us with, as well as his support of the latter. He is also very 
motivated by the project, which made him a top-of-the-line contender, 
in my eyes, to keep the project moving forward at the pace that it 
requires. I truly hope (and know) that you will all agree with me once 
you get to know him.

But enough about Blake, as I'm sure he'll do a much better job at 
introducing himself to you than I can ever do. I'll simply finish that 
part of my message by stating that I am fully confident that Blake will 
do a wonderful job for you guys, and ask all of the interested parties 
to support him in his efforts as well as you all have done for me since 
I first released the netjuke on Sourceforge. :o)

Now, I would like to thank the entire community for the wonderful times 
and experiences that it has brought me. Having the occasion to deal 
with so many people and technologies has been a continual blessing to 
me, whether professionally or personally. If one thing is for sure, I 
would definitely recommend the Open Source development model to anyone 
aspiring to become or sharpen his skills as a programmer, especially 
when coupled with a viable revenue model (see TheKompany.com for a 
great example of the latter).

For those who might be interested in what wil become of me in the 
immediate future, I will still handle the French translation of the 
netjuke, as well as submit code from time to time (see the upcoming 
Music Directory Browser and splited Preference Editors in the next 
version), but I will especially be focusing on my wonderful wife and 
kids, my full-time development job at McGill University (Montreal, QC, 
Canada), as well as a charitable project I was hoping to start at the 
same time as the netjuke, but never was able to: the Artekopia 
Foundation.

I am hoping to develop Artekopia.org ("An Art and Technology Utopia") 
into a charitable organization that will focus on gathering computer 
equipment (new and used) to be loaded with Open Source software suites 
and operating systems, and distributed to underprivileged recipients 
(most likely kids, as they have no means to acquire such equipment by 
themselves if they parents cannot afford to).

Well, that's about it, and it is now time for me to wish you a good 
night, and as usual, a happy "netjuking" to you all. ;o)

Cheers, thank you for using the netjuke, and best regards to all.

Stephane Daury - stephane-at-artekopia-dot-org



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