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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hello all,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">My name ist Emeric Kwemou and I am actually working as Software Developer in Karlsruhe (Germany).</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I was looking for JCR implementations and discovered your current work and would like to thank you for this great concept (connectors and sequencers) and architecture.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">It is of my interrest to contribute to the success of this project.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I read the 'getting started' guide and part of the Reference Guide (R0.5).</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">For the beginning i can spend up to 8 hour per week for the project and may be more in the future.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I would like to start by contibuting to the 'getting started' guide so i also can learn more about Jboss DNA.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">My proposition is to start by programming a repository based on an apache derby database and accessed using a JDBC connector, and then a JPA connector.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Please let me know if this is the rigth way to start or propose me something else.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Concerning my background, i have 3 years experience programming server side applications using J2EE.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I also have a (old) blog where i may talk about my work on Jboss DNA (</FONT><A HREF="http://weblogs.java.net/blog/emeric/"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://weblogs.java.net/blog/emeric/</FONT></U></A><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">).</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Please just intoduce me to your team: what do i need? what are the common errors? coding guideline/convention/developper tools? subversion user loggin? How do you communicate?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Who assign the tasks? Etc…</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Best regards</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Emeric Kwemou</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- Software Developer -</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Michael Krings</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Vorstand: Gabor Friedrich (Vorsitzender), Ralf Schneider</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Sitz der Gesellschaft: Karlsruhe</FONT>
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