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From: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@g.o>
To: vdupras@g.o
Cc: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] New Developer: Virgil Dupras (vdupras)
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2018 10:52:46
Message-Id: 20180610115235.4b7611b2@sf
In Reply to: [gentoo-project] New Developer: Virgil Dupras (vdupras) by Mikle Kolyada
1 On Fri, 8 Jun 2018 19:49:39 +0300
2 Mikle Kolyada <zlogene@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > Good evening community!
5 >
6 > It is my pleasure to announce the latest addition to our family.
7 >
8 > Virgil Dupras is joining us from Monreal, Canada.
9 > He has been working on embedded and virtualization stuff ( and will
10 > continue his work as an official developer).
11 > Here is how he describes himself:
12 >
13 > "I'm a free software enthusiast who uses Gentoo in my quest to master my
14 > computer-related tools. Technology is supposed to free us rather than
15 > control
16 > us. I also happen to be a professional software developer. I mostly do web
17 > development but my hobby time is spent exploring electronics (only dealt
18 > with
19 > AVR MCUs so far).
20 >
21 > I've been using Gentoo for 5 years and been very happy with it but I always
22 > felt unable to help the Gentoo project as a normal user. All efforts from
23 > users (such as PRs) always seem to be met with by developers who are
24 > overloaded.
25 > That's why I want to share the load a little bit and become a developer
26 > myself. I hope I'm up to the task."
27 >
28 > Please give him a warm welcome!
29
30 Woohoo! Welcome and good luck!
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34 Sergei