thanks.

Hey,
Wow...I know what you mean.  I have had little time to maintain the OS 
X tutorial site.  But enough of that.  Steph, thanks a lot for your 
hard work.  Your 3rd child, Netjuke, is the model child for all other 
open source projects.  Again, thanks ;-)

Good luck with your family and future plans.  I'm sure everything will 
work out for you.

Sincerely,
Ethan.
> On Monday, January 27, 2003, at 10:19  AM, Stephane Daury wrote:
>
>> 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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