[gentoo-pr] Re: [gentoo-project] New developer: David Abbott (dabbott)

[David Abbott]

Roy Bamford wrote:
> On 2009.07.16 17:34, Denis Dupeyron wrote:
>> It's my pleasure to introduce long-time contributor David Abbott
>> (dabbott) as a new staff developer. You probably know him already for
>> his famous LinuxCrazy podcasts. He is going to work in the PR
>> project, and it looks like his first assignment is the 10-year
>> anniversary.
>
> Nothing like being thrown in at the deep end.
> Welcome to the team!
>

Thanks Roy,

I put this [0] together and contacted drobbins and he gave his 
blessings. I have been told it should be moved to the main site in /pr, 
could be your first mentoring Roy as I don't have a clue, jmbvicetto 
also said he would help if that is what is decided. My idea to generate 
interest in the big event is to have a screenshot contest [1] to compare 
the desktops of old to the current desktops. It was also suggested that 
an alias email address should be set up for submissions.

On the Podcast front, I have a group of very willing :) developers that 
just can't wait to be interviewed. rbu has given me some pointers on 
doing a more professional screencast and I have been working on that, I 
have been getting requests for a screencast on audacity and 
recordmydesktop, so I will put that together. I started a page [2] to 
put all the Gentoo related media in one place, it is easy to keep 
updated and also add new sections. I have been doing my own xml for 
feeds so I seem to be able to catch on pretty well to GuideXML, and in 
the future would like to help out the documentation project, may come a 
time when a developer would like someone to put their text files / notes 
into GuideXML.

-david

[0] http://dev.gentoo.org/~dabbott/pr/birthday.xml
[1] http://dev.gentoo.org/~dabbott/pr/shots.xml
[2] http://dev.gentoo.org/~dabbott/pr/media.xml