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From: David Seifert <soap@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o, gentoo-dev-announce@l.g.o, ionen@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] New Developer: Ionen Wolkens (ionen)
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2021 14:55:15
Message-Id: 9cf2b331c13cb957d5389167dd56fc0f65a53480.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-project] New Developer: Ionen Wolkens (ionen) by Mikle Kolyada
1 On Thu, 2021-06-03 at 12:12 +0300, Mikle Kolyada wrote:
2 > Good day/night everyone!
3 >
4 > It is my pleasure to announce the latest addition to our family!
5 >
6 > Ionen is joining us from Sherbrooke, QC, Canada.
7 >
8 > I believe many of you have already had a chance of meeting him in IRC
9 >
10 > and bugzilla as he has been helping in lots of areas
11 >
12 > (nvidia drivers maintaining, bug wrangling, misc fixes, etc).
13 >
14 > Here is how he describes himself:
15 >
16 > "Linux user since 1997, thanks to a Slackware 3.2 CD-ROM that came
17 > with
18 > a book I randomly came across in a computer store, but Gentoo user
19 > only
20 > since late 2018, I missed out!
21 >
22 > I enjoy problem solving, doing support, and some programming albeit
23 > I've never worked professionally in the field.
24 >
25 > Aside from that, I enjoy old video games, and I've dabbled in
26 > speedrunning. I'd be surprised to be recognized but may have known
27 > me as "Evanidus" from the ALttP randomizer community. Been ~3 years
28 > but old videos of my races are still around."
29 >
30 > Please join me in giving him a warm welcome!
31 >
32 >
33
34 Very stoked to have ionen on board. You might have bumped into him in
35 #gentoo or when you say his initial triaging and troubleshooting on
36 various bugs. He will help us make Gentoo great again!