Francesco Chicchiricco and I studied at same Department of Computer Science at University of L'Aquila but we never met before we both were involved in the Apache Cocoon project.
Francesco is also the co-founder of Tirasa, a company based in Pescara (Abruzzo) which mainly developed and maintains an OSS IdM product: Syncope.
Francesco's inestimable passion for OSS and the ASF brought him and his company on the decision of donating their product to the ASF, and I happily and proudly helped them on joining the Incubator.
Long live to Apache Syncope, the ASL2.0 licensed Idm!!!