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From: hasufell <hasufell@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] New Developer: Xavier Miller (xaviermiller)
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 22:17:33
Message-Id: 53E00672.2080105@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] New Developer: Xavier Miller (xaviermiller) by "Anthony G. Basile"
1 Anthony G. Basile:
2 > On 07/30/14 16:01, justin wrote:
3 >> Hi everyone,
4 >>
5 >> Xavier Miller (XavierMiller) joined our team to help managing the forums.
6 >>
7 >> He started to use Gentoo back in the glory days in 2004 and started his
8 >> moderator careers 2-3 years ago. Now he took the last step to become a
9 >> full global moderator.
10 >>
11 >>
12 >> Here are some lines about himself:
13 >>
14 >> I am 40 years old, Belgian, married, with one boy (4 years). I work as
15 >> Software Developer/Architect or Business Intelligence Consultant for
16 >> 18 years.
17 >>
18 >> I use computers since I am 9, starting with the family's C64, then a
19 >> 286. I discovered UNIX and Linux at University (1992-1996) and I was
20 >> quite frustrated with that 286 that could not run Linux... I had to
21 >> wait until 1996 and my first owned computer (a K6 II). I started with
22 >> SuSE Linux and Red Hat, and needed to compile the kernel in order to
23 >> have drivers for the sound card and ADSL modem. Then I've built two
24 >> LFS systems, the first with FVWM95 and the second with GNOME (1 or 2,
25 >> I don't remember). When I would update them, I was searching for an
26 >> automatic version of LFS. And I found Gentoo! It was in 2004, as said
27 >> my forum profile. I did know the first moments of ~AMD64 and the
28 >> "unstable" meaning of "unstable". Today, ~arch is really stable, thank
29 >> to you Gentoo Developers!
30 >>
31 >> I am moderator in the French forum since July 2011, and active as SPAM
32 >> hunter. Desultory and the forum administrators asked me to join them,
33 >> and I accepted the challenge!
34 >>
35 >> I am also musician, my instruments are keyboards: piano, organ (pipe
36 >> and tonewheels), synthesizers. My favorite styles are: Classical,
37 >> Jazz, Pop-Rock.
38 >>
39 >> I am not a great fan of software in that domain, I prefer "hardware",
40 >> or at least embedded systems with knobs and tangible interfaces that
41 >> don't sound as "computer".
42 >> I am tinkering now on a MIDIbox SID system (C64 nostalgy).
43 >>
44 >>
45 >> Please everyone join my in giving him a warm welcome.
46 >>
47 >> Justin
48 >>
49 >
50 > Welcome on board Xavier!
51 >
52
53 Oh. Yeah. Bro.