Welcome Joan, congratulations! :) Your trip down the memory lane made me a little teary. I’m so happy and we are so lucky to have you in the community <3
Jan -- On 10 Apr 2014, at 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
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