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"Justin (jlec)" <jlec@g.o> writes: |
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> Hello everyone, |
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> it's a pleasure for me to introduce to you Andrew Savchenko aka. bircoph as the |
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> latest addition to our team. |
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> He has been a long time out-of-tree contributor to various packages including |
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> sci-physics/root, linphone, mediastreamer or openl2tp. Now it is time for him to |
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> work directly on the tree. |
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Welcome bircoph! Pleasure to finally have you on board. |
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> Here some lines from himself: |
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> """ |
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> I'm an IT engineer in the Unix technologies department of our |
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> university working mostly on HPC solutions, though I'm also |
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> involved in VoIP and infrastructure security issues. We're using |
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> Gentoo in production widely ;) |
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> Also I'm a researcher at the same university working in High Energy |
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> Physics field and I'm working on my PhD in HEP now. |
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That will make you a heavy sci-physics/root user, I suppose;) |
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> In Gentoo I'd like to participate in science, voip, cluster teams |
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> and maintain some random packages of interest. |
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> Other than technical stuff my interests encompass classical music |
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> (both Western and Eastern), literature (sci-fi, historical novels |
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> and epic fantasy), anime and cycling. |
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> I have contributed to quite a lot of free software projects, though |
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> most contributions are in form of patches, high quality bug |
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> reports, translations and small improvements here and there. |
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> Notable project I contributed to: |
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> MPlayer, Midnight Commander (was a developer for these two), Linux |
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> kernel, OrangeFS, Wesnoth, sdcv, openl2tp and of course Gentoo (a |
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> lot of patches in bugzilla, proxy-maintainer for various packages). |
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> ATM I'm one of clsync developers (it's an lsyncd replacement written |
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> in pure C with enhanced functionality and extensibility; probably |
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> should add this project to the tree) and symlookup dev (its a tool |
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> for undefined symbols handling, though intersect with scanelf for |
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> some tasks). |
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> Also I maintain an official Russian Debian mirror located at our |
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> university. (We have Gentoo mirror too (that's why this host was |
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> set up in the first place), but additional mirrors aren't accepted |
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> now.) |
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> """ |
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Very admirable experience. I am looking forward to cooperating with you |
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more in the science herd. |
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Cheers, |
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