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Nic Steenhout Joins Development Team
http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic ... w.html#new

I've seen some of Nic's posts and it seems to me you picked the right guy for the job.

Congratulations Nic, I look forward to learning more form you!

Great news!

Congratulations to Nick !

Congratulations to the team !

An important domain of a good CMS is now well covered by an excellent member !

Congratulation Nick!
I hope this will make Joomla! standard compliance version a litle closer eh 

Hi Nick congratulations again and also to the team !

This important part for further developing is now also covered, Joomla! is on it`s way

Congratulations Nic. Definately the best man for the job.

Looking forward to a more accessible Joomla with you at the SUA helm.

Hello Nic,

Congratulations on your new post!
I am looking forward to learning a lot more about the accessibility enhancements that a site could add to make it more widely useful.
All the best! 

Congrats Nic,

This is certainly the best news I've heard all day. Onward with compliancy.

Congratulations Nic and to the Team congratulations also!

Accessibility is very important for a lot of people ...
Usability is important for everybody ... and this is my favourite topic also 

I'm very glad that Team combined Accessibility and Usability and transfered this topic to your hands.

Beat wrote:An important domain of a good CMS is now well covered by an excellent member !

I think likewise ...


Good luck! 

Congrats, Nic!

I'm also looking forward to seeing such a robust CMS truly work for everyone.

Congratulation Nick!

Your definitely the right person......

Hope to see more intresting activity in the Standards, Usability & Accessibility Forum

Congrats Nic, I hope there will be time left to tango :-).

Great news !
Congrats to the core-team, to Nic and to Joomla! community.

This is certainly a step in the right direction !

Thanks everyone.  It's good to feel welcomed

This is not something I'm gonna do alone though.  Without the dev guys recognising the need, it wouldn't happen.  Without the fools (;))err...  generous volunteers that agreed to come on the Usability & Accessibility work group, it wouldn't happen.  Without the community clammoring for it to happen, it wouldn't happen

bluesaze wrote:Congratulation Nick!

Err...  Who's that?    Nic... 

Welcome Nic

Congratulation Nicolas !

Hope you will be with Joomla a long time 

Congratualtion Nic

And to the team aswell...

Not exactly a surprise anymore after your sig has been saying 'Core Member' for a few days now, but congratulations. Success with implementing the standards you already proposed in the Mambo forums.

Congratulations Nic, to you and the Team!
A job well deserved!

Congrats Nic, i'm sure you'll do a great job

Wow, I really have to check the forums and the joomla! site more often

Congrats Nic, sounds like you're in a very good position to be handling this vital core role. Accessibility is a huge issue and one that someone with your background is sure to create a solid focus on it in the core.

Good stuff

Welcome Nic!

This is indeed good news for Joomla!

As a deaf webmaster, accessibility is a major issue for me.

Looking forward to having Joomla offering built-in section 508 compatibility, plus other accessibility standards.

JSG

Joining the general congrats with a bit of french touch: félicitations! I know you understand, so ..
Good to see the importance of this topic is recognized, only thing missing is the interaction designer (be)for the rewrite.. "Core" next to your nick' looks cool, Nic

Nic,

Congrats on joining the team!

-Ryan

Congrats nic.

Hopes joomla! will be even great with you on the side.

Thought that it was another Dutch speaking person joining the team...

Anyway, congratulations with your team membership!

I don't know you Nick, and unfortunately I'm not familiar with your work. I gladly welcome you to the team and the community and look forward to getting to know you better! 

Congratulations and Good luck Nic!

Congratulation also to joomla community:-)

I'll just jump in here and congratulate along with all the other people that do not know you but still have no trouble being happy about accessibility and usability being put on the roadmap.

Does this relate in any way to the "Accessible Mambo" fork? I do not know who is developing that fork, but it could be interesting to have people join forces instead of working on separate fronts doing all the work twice.

torkil wrote:Does this relate in any way to the "Accessible Mambo" fork? I do not know who is developing that fork, but it could be interesting to have people join forces instead of working on separate fronts doing all the work twice.

Not really, no.  We're not trying to reinvent the wheel, but the infrastructure of how the output is generated is changing significantly (using patTemplate).  We've asked a fw people on the U&A work group that have done a lot of work towards standard compliant sites (Absalom, Aurum3 and a.radtke for example).  With their experience, we'll be able to "kick it into shape" rather well

@Ivo, sorry I don't speak flemmish.  My dad grew up in the French part of Belgium, and while he speaks flemmish, it was never taught to me.