Jazkarta's Ross Patterson selected for Plone 4 Framework Team

Congratulations to the newly appointed Plone 4 Framework Team : Matthew Wilkes, David Glick, Calvin Hendryx-Parker, Laurence Rowe, Martijn Pieters, Erik Rose, and our own Ross Patterson. The new team was chosen by current and past framework team members from an excellent group of nominations. Most of the deliberations were concerned with ensuring the right mix of skills and background.

Anyone who has been following Plone development will know that this is an awesome team!

Ross recently blogged about his selection - here are excerpts:

I think it's fair to say that Plone is a very successful open source project. On that point alone, its an honor to serve a role in the continued success of the project... That success lies not just in the technology, but in the community as well, or if you prefer, the ecosystem...  

I'm genuinely excited to be a part of figuring out how to make Plone more fun and powerful for the whole community, users, themers, integrators, and developers alike.

How do we ditch old code without alienating large portions of the community when those portions of the community depend on their familiarity with the old code? How do we get developers excited about preserving continuity when we tend to prefer moving on? How do we make documentation sexy enough to attract and retain rock stars? How can we make preserving and improving performance as prestigious as adding new features?

...I can't imagine a more exciting set of questions to tackle.

And we at Jazkarta are excited that Ross will be tackling them!