There are many ways to become involved in an open source project like the JavaServer Faces Reference Implementation. Whether your interests lie in testing or documentation, or your inclination is writing code, there's a place on the development team for just about anybody. The FAQ details the steps necessary to become involved formally with the development effort, but you are always welcome to hang out on the mailing lists, or, if you prefer, on IRC (##jsf on irc.freenode.net).
To help you get to know your development team better, here is a list of all those on the development team, with a short bio of each contributor:
Ed Burns is a senior staff engineer at Oracle America. Ed has worked on a wide variety of client and server side web technologies since 1994, including NCSA Mosaic, Mozilla, the Sun Java Plugin, Jakarta Tomcat and, most recently JavaServer Faces. Ed is currently the co-spec lead for JavaServer Faces.
Roger is the JavaServer Faces co-specification lead. Roger has extensively been involved with server side web technologies and products since 1997. He started working on JavaServer Faces in 2001, as a member of the reference implementation team. He has experience with Servlet, JSP technologies, and most recently he has been involved with different rendering technologies for JSF.
Ryan Lubke is the current maintainer for the JSF Reference Implementation...
Jacob Hookom is a developer with McKesson Medical-Surgical, designing supply management solutions on the web, desktop, and handheld for a multitude of markets. He started consulting at 16 and has since held titles from Information Architect to Product Manager. In his free time, he contributes to Sun's JavaServerFaces RI and Glassfish projects and is an active member of the JavaServerFaces Expert Groups. Recently he started a Java.net project of his own, called 'Facelets', which is a templating framework for JavaServer Faces.
Jason Lee is a Sun Certified Java Programmer working for International Environment Corporation in Oklahoma City, OK working with web-based technologies such as JavaServer Faces and AJAX, as well as enterprise technologies based on the Glassfish platform. Jason has been writing software professionally since 1997 in a wide variety of languages and environments, including Java, PHP, C/C++, and Delphi on both Linux/Unix and Windows. Jason is currently working in his free time to wrap the Yahoo User Interface JavaScript components as JSF components. He is currently serving as the vice president of the Oklahoma City Java Users Group, where he is an active member and presenter.
Mike Youngstrom is a Software Engineering Consultant for Software Technology Group.
He is currently working as an on site contractor for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (http://www.lds.org) as a Senior Software Engineer. Mike has been a fan of Java since 98, has programed professionally in Java since 2001, and has been developing applications with JSF since its release and is currently help backport relevant issues found in JSF 1.2 to JSF 1.1. Mike has a wife, two kids, and calls Lehi, UT his home.
Stan is a Core Developer for JBoss, a division of RedHat. He resides in Atlanta, GA.
Since earning a degree in computer science from Georgia Tech in 1991, he has held many senior development positions, mostly as a Java Architect. Stan has been a committer to the JBoss Application Server and the Apache MyFaces JSF implementation. He currently works on the Sun JSF implementation which is used in both GlassFish and JBoss AS 5. Stan also represents JBoss on the JSF expert group (JSR-252).
TODO: Get Tony's bio
