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Ding!

Yesterday evening, in my inbox:

Andrew,

on behalf of the Apache Software Foundation membership, I would like to extend an invitation to join the membership of the foundation.

This is fantastic news for me, and a real honour and a privilege. Being an ASF Member is the most amazing peer recognition, and it was especially heart-warming to receive loads of congratulatory emails and IMs in the following minutes.

Having been involved in the ASF since the late 90's when I first started working with Cocoon, it's great to be recognised for contributions to the ASF, which is something I deeply care about. It's particularly gratifying to be recognised like this given that I'm not a big contributor in terms of code: this recognition of less tangible contributions is a sign of the mature and diverse ecosystem that thrives at the ASF. In my opinion it's the best place for Open Source communities to form and for Open Source development to take place. This is one more step in my journey to help foster the continued growth and success of the ASF.

Hopefully this explains the congrats in Ugo's blog post, too ;-)

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