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Alright, after much poking and prodding by various lobbying firms and special |
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interests groups and some thought given to it during a quick game of |
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Electroplankton, I've decided to cast my hat into the ring and run for a |
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foundation trustee position. |
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Quick rundown of the things I do in Gentoo include: |
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- Help manage the Gentoo/MIPS port as the MIPS Team Lead |
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- Provide a visible Gentoo presence (along with others) in |
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the linux-mips IRC channel (which has mostly debian people) |
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- Chip in on random Gentoo/SPARC related discussions |
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- Chip in on base-system, toolchain, and gcc-porting |
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oddities at random. |
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- Idle constantly in several Gentoo IRC channels |
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- Developed 'crossdev', the forerunner to the portage |
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cross-toolchain toolkit. |
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- Trained four new MIPS devs, and currently in the process |
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of mentoring a 5th one. |
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My preferred goals for running for a foundation position are mainly for giving |
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the alt-arch groups (primarily sparc and mips, but others too) a voice in |
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things, as we often find ourselves overlooked or compared to inefficient |
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x86-based systems. |
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Some quick things about me: |
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- Been a developer for 2 years |
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- Residing in an insignificant region outside the DC |
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Metro area, which I might add, is ranked #3 in worst |
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traffic in the nation, and I drive in it. |
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- Owner of many SGI systems (Octane, 2 O2's, Indy, |
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Indigo2 R10K, Indigo2 R8K). |
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So vote for me today, and I guarantee I'll make your teeth up to 25% whiter! |
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--Kumba |
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"Such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands |
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do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere." --Elrond |
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