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Speaking as someone who has had a less than stellar ride on the |
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recruiting process, but who somehow managed to get foundation |
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membership due to non-code and non-ebuild related contributions, as |
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well as a patch in the linux kernel. |
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I LOVE gentoo, as a user. I have been an avid gentoo user ever since |
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a friend of mine told me about. |
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The control over my machine, nothing hard coded, nothing getting in my |
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way when I need to tell my computer what to do and how to do it. Of |
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course, it doesn't much save me when I shoot myself in the foot, but |
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honestly, I'd rather do that than have stuff hard-coded that I can't |
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change. |
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I love being able to set my machine up the way I need it, and it's |
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proving to, perhaps on topic further, serve as the foundation of a |
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growing file the recruiters at google are building on me as a |
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potential candidate. Gentoo might actually help me get a job if it |
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continues to give me an education on software engineering and system |
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administration. Would be a welcome upgrade to my life of being a |
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disabled "basement dweller" |
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And Gentoo actually inspired me in a way to get my computer and |
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networking gear hooked up to a UPS device...which actually saved my |
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family from some otherwise intense grief during a power failure when I |
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was able to use my UPS powered internet connection to look up the |
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power company's phone number. |
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Using x11vnc (encrypted, and through a SSH tunnel) also gave me some |
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hands on practice at remote system administration, using my own gentoo |
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powered desktop as a guinea pig and my android phone from afar across |
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the cloud to get back into my machine...and then putting up a tunnel |
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after noticing some alien IPs were pinging my x11vnc server :P. |
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All in all, Gentoo has been an EXTREMELY positive influence in my |
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life, both personally, hobby wise, and hopefully a solid base going |
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forward if/when my career gets started as a software engineer. |
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So whatever it takes to keep Gentoo being the most awesome linux |
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distro I have seen yet, has my approval. I joined the foundation for |
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a reason. |
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Speaking of which, what would the trustees of the foundation say about |
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this conversation? I'm assuming that they're designed to be more than |
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asset monkeys. |
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On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 10:03 AM, Christopher Díaz Riveros |
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<chrisadr@g.o> wrote: |
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> Hi Daniel, |
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> |
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> El mié, 06-12-2017 a las 09:53 -0700, Daniel Robbins escribió: |
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>> 3. I will continue to work with members of the Gentoo dev team on |
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>> various development-related projects. If, for running for council, I |
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>> am required to be a Gentoo developer, I can go through the |
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>> recruitment process. However, I am frankly happy working with Gentoo |
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>> developers as I am doing now and I feel like it is less likely to |
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>> cause problems if I do NOT have direct commit access to Gentoo repos. |
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>> So maybe the council could vote an exception to my need to have |
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>> access to the Gentoo repos. I think this would make it easier for |
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>> everyone -- people would not need to worry that I would subvert |
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>> existing processes. And I see no reason why I need direct commit |
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>> access. |
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>> |
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> |
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> Just to mention that if that's the case you can always take the non- |
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> commit developer quiz [1]. That way you'll meet all the requirements in |
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> the election rules. And it's a good way to refresh all the basic |
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> knowledge about the procedures and structure. |
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>> intention to run for council. Then hopefully we can focus on bigger |
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>> issues like actually making Gentoo better and more fun :) |
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>> |
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>> Let me know what you think. |
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>> |
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> |
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> Personally I like the idea of Gentoo and Funtoo having more |
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> collaboration among each other, and I think that the primary goal is |
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> and always will be to make Gentoo better. |
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> [1]: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Recruiters/Quiz#Quiz_selectio |
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> n_2 |
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> Best regards, |
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> -- |
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> Christopher Díaz Riveros |
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> Gentoo Linux Developer |
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