Congrats Joan!
-Russell On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh man, that made me nostalgic. I miss Monty. And I'm SO happy you're > joining the PMC. Welcome aboard Joan. :) > > On 10 April 2014 18:30, Joan Touzet <[email protected]> wrote: > > Noah and the Apache CouchDB PMC, thank you for nominating me to join > > your number. > > > > Boy, how times have changed! In May 2009, I was a month or so into PhD > > research. I popped on IRC to ask my first CouchDB question - why a view > > was never returning - and stumbled upon a way to get invalid UTF-8 data > > into Couch, but not back out. Jan, Damien, Monty and Paul helped me out, > > though Paul was occasionally AFK looking at new apartment listings, and > > of course Monty was barking mad. > > > > People were friendly, engaged, and genuinely interested in the bug that > > became COUCHDB-345. It took 4 months to fix, and ended up with a patch > > set upstream to mochiweb as well. > > > > Since then I've been a non-stop user of CouchDB, including incorporating > > it into a p2p secure asset sharing system, an artefact repository for > > software release & deployment, as a backend for some top 10 mobile phone > > games and of course work on CouchDB, bigcouch and Cloudant themselves. > > > > I remain convinced that CouchDB is the sleeper NoSQL tech that's winning > > in the long run. > > > > We've got a lot of bugs to squash still, 2 big merges to get done and a > > whole lot of great requests and suggestions from the community at large. > > I look forward to doing everything I can to facilitate that work, and a > > few of my own patches as well. > > > > Rock on, > > Joan > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Noah Slater" <[email protected]> > > To: [email protected] > > Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 4:57:24 AM > > Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Joan Touzet joins the PMC > > > > Dear community, > > > > I am delighted to announce that Joan Touzet joins the Apache CouchDB > > Project Management Committee today. > > > > Joan has made outstanding, sustained contributions to the project. > > This appointment is an official acknowledgement of their position > > within the community, and our trust in their ability to provide > > oversight for the project. > > > > Everybody, please join me in congratulating Joan! > > > > On behalf of the CouchDB PMC, > > > > -- > > Noah Slater > > https://twitter.com/nslater > > > > -- > Noah Slater > https://twitter.com/nslater >
