Developer Seeking To Help

Hello, I have recently subscribed to this developer's list with the hopes of finding more information about how to contribute to the PHP project. At the risk of having this sound too much like a job application, I wanted to say just a few things about myself and my interests, so that hopefully someone will identify me as being potential assistance in some area of development that they are associated with. I value open source software over proprietary, modesty over pride, and creativity over intelligence. I am an expert in the HTTP protocol and an experienced web developer. I began my web development with CGIs in C, moved to Perl, and now primarily create in ColdFusion and PHP. I currently work for the USPS as a Technical Program Manager, which basically means that I lead a group of developers and act as a liason between the programmers and the business management. With this position, I have been "enlightened" with the business perspective in regards to software. My primary interests in PHP development would be aiding with the evolution and improvement of the wonderful new session management capabilities in PHP. I know Sascha and Andrei probably don't need any help, but I would love to give it if they do. Most of my ideas in this area revolve around making it easier for inexperienced developers to be able to implement secure session management into their applications without removing any flexibility for the experienced ones. I'm sure many of my ideas are not original, but I think that some just might be. Another major area of interest would be to add to the native PHP functions. Specifically with regards to date/time functions, many common tasks in dealing with dates and times must be done with several lines of PHP where a native function could improve performance and ease development, especially for inexperienced developers (see a trend? :)). I know there are also mundane tasks that need accomplishing, and I would be more than willing to help with some of these as well. Best regards. Chris Shiflett chris@k2labs.org