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It's my usual pleasure to announce some new blood coming in to replace |
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some of the old going away. Joe is joining us from Lafayette, CO, USA to |
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help with the Gentoo/FreeBSD work. Here is how he describes it himself: |
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"I would like to be able to help Gentoo in several ways. Many Gentoo |
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packages need maintainers, and some of those packages I am very fond of. |
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An example is xtrs, to which I have contributed (upstream) in the past. |
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Working with a dev on that was great, but it made me feel even more |
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strongly that, "Hey, I should *be* a dev!" so I can help out more |
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profoundly. I also have an interest in Gentoo/FreeBSD and in helping it |
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to grow." |
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And on the personal side: |
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For work, I run the science operations center for several unmanned space |
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missions in Boulder, Colorado. My biggest current project is New |
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Horizons (it just passed Jupiter on its way to Pluto). We post pictures |
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quite often, if you are interested (there's a great movie loop of |
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Tvashtar, a volcano on IO erupting there now): |
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http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/ |
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There's a link near the center of that page about my group (Sci. Ops. |
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Center). It's great fun most of the time! Seeing a launch is pretty |
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damn cool - my first and only was in 1/2006 and that was New Horizons. |
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I'm now starting to work on two Mars missions. |
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My personal pages are here: |
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http://www.skyrush.com/joe/ |
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Please give him the usual weird welcome. IRC was a good start :) |
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Regards, |
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Petteri |
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Gentoo/Recruiters lead |
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