Kore Nordmann - PHP / Projects / Politics
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:Author: 		Kore Nordmann
:Date:			Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:50:42 +0100
:Revision: 		5
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Seven things - Tagged by Derick
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:Description:
  I normally don't follow those chain letters - but I guess I have no choice
  here, since Derick "tagged" me :) - whatever this exactly means. Not knowing
  the term in this context seems common though.

I normally don't follow those chain letters - but I guess I have no choice
here, since Derick__ "tagged" me :) - whatever this exactly means. Not knowing
the term in this context seems common though.

__ http://derickrethans.nl/seven_things_tagged_by_rob_allen.php

So now it is time to tell seven things about me:

- I love playing and training Badminton in / for a local sports league.

- I still get mails from people who want to use Image_3D__ for serious. Either
  in web shops for "live" rendering of shop items in different colors, or
  other variants.

- Implementing parsers for markup like `ReStructured texts`__ - which is not
  possible to describe by either a regular or context sensitive grammar - for
  the eZ Conponents document components was great fun and pain at the same
  time. :)

- In my free time I currently mainly develop arbit__ - a future replacement
  for trac and similar tools.

- I am especially looking forward to the `PHP Unconference`__ this year, which
  hopefully will take place again in Hamburg.

- I love cooking, eating and drinking - gladly I do sports two to three times a
  week to compensate that.

- I am a (sadly currently inactive) member of the german pirate party.

__ http://pear.php.net/package/Image_3D
__ http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
__ http://arbitracker.org/news.html
__ http://www.php-unconference.de/

So, let me split the baton I got from Derick__ in seven pieces and pass it on:

- Toby__, who convinced me years ago to speak at conferences and try to
  contribute Image_3D to PEAR - which surprisingly worked.

- Mapi__, who joined our the PHP user group Dortmund about two years ago and
  was a perfect match. 

- Tobi__, who sadly had to left our user group, because he moved to Hamburg,
  has been a bit quite in his open source activity recently, but hopefully
  gets a bit more active.

- Arne__, my brother - a constant source of inspiration, when it comes to
  topics only slightly related to computer science, like philosophy or
  electrical engineering, or especially robotics.

- Dominik__, a new face in the PHP open source scene, mostly doing model
  driven development at SAP.

- Johannes__, I always have a really nice chat with, when we meet at
  conferences, or when he guides me through Munich. Again - thanks for those
  two days. :)

- Jakob__, who also tends to have weired ideas, like developing a LUA
  environment to be PHP for really small embedded systems, like DBoxes.

So let "tagging" continue - even though `tagging is broken`__. :)

__ http://derickrethans.nl/
__ http://schlitt.info/opensource.html
__ http://manuel-pichler.de/
__ http://blog.struckmeier.name/
__ http://arne-nordmann.de/
__ http://blog.webfrapdev.de/
__ http://schlueters.de/blog/
__ http://westhoffswelt.de/blog.html
__ http://kore-nordmann.de/blog/tagging_broken_by_design.html

Quoting the rules:

- Link your original tagger(s), and list these rules on your blog.

- Share seven facts about yourself in the post - some random, some wierd.

- Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the
  links to their blogs.

- Let them know they've been tagged by leaving a comment on their blogs
  and/or Twitter. 



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- Sebastian Bergmann at Sat, 03 Jan 2009 08:42:36 +0100

  I think in this context "tagging" is meant as tapping someone on the
  shoulder and saying "You're next!".