[gentoo-dev] New Devs: erik_swanson and alexander

[Jeremy Huddleston]

Everone please welcome the two newest developers to join our team.  Erik
Swanson (erik_swanson) and Alexander Plank (alexander) have come aboard
to help out the Gentoo/OS-X effort, the quickly growing project bringing
portage to Apple's Mac OS-X.


Alexander has this to say about himself:
"I'm good with Perl and c++. I've also been looking into PHP. I'm
thinking about learning objective-c, and I'm definitely going to learn
more Java. I'm currently doing freelance work for a couple of clients
(both perl and PHP jobs) and I do maintenance PHP work on
http://wrongplanet.net (the website I recently started). I recently
became a member of the Wonder Warp Software group
(http://wonderwarp.com) which creates macintosh software. I've been
using gentoo for about 2 years (before that I used Red hat and Debian)
and I'm fairly familiar with the portage system (I tried to submit a
couple of ebuilds about a year ago but they didn't work as I didn't have
much programming experience back then). I'm running a 15' powerbook g4
that I just purchased. I've been running a Pentium 4 computer with the
2.6.6 gentoo-dev kernel. I look forward to trying to help you out with
the portage on os-x project."

Erik lead the now defunct XD2GEN2 project last summer, which was an
overlay of gnome ebuilds hacked to include enhancements from Ximian
Desktop 2.  He had this to say about himself:

"I am a computer science turned photojournalism major living in
Corvallis, Oregon, USA. Right now I'm taking a compressed sequence of
first-year Japanese classes at Oregon State University but during the
rest of the year I'm a full-time student at Linn-Benton Community
College in Albany, Oregon, USA where I was recently selected as the
Photo Editor for next year's college newspaper staff."

Please join me in welcoming these two new developers to our team!