[Asterisk-Dev] Special Thanks

[Rehan Ahmed]

Thank you for creating something that we can all apreciate and use, 
and be a part of.

Rehan

> Now that I've had a day to relax for thanksgiving, I wanted to express a 
> very special thanks to all of you that have assisted with Asterisk 
> development.  This year has been an amazing one for Asterisk, and I am 
> especially thankful for all the hard work that so many of you like junk-y, 
> blitzrage, anthm, citats, twisted, drumkilla, bkw, paulc, moc, pcadach and 
> many many others who have worked to add new features, fix bugs, improve 
> the tracker itself, etc. all to make the project more successful.
> 
> Doing Open Source development (and perhaps development in general) has 
> been (from my experience) an on the whole mostly thankless job (especially 
> considering that most of those developers do not have a direct revenue 
> source from the contributions they make).  The vast majority of the time, 
> you only hear from people when they have problems and it is *very* rare 
> (but very much appreciated) when people really stop to say thanks for a 
> project.
> 
> It's a lot of work, often a lot of stress, a lot of beating back and forth 
> about what is a better strategy or which way an implementation should go, 
> but after all that, in the end, it all makes Asterisk a better, stronger, 
> more feature rich, and more reliable product for everyone in the 
> community.
> 
> I want to be sure that all Asterisk contributers know that *I* appreciate 
> the work and dedication they put into all that they do for the project as 
> a whole.
> 
> Keep up the good work guys and I thank you all very sincerely again for 
> all that you've done!
> 
> Mark
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