Hi Ben and Javier, this is what this community is all about :). One cool suggestion and wuuups ... the community is listening and acting. I love your introductions really much. Thank you very much! Highly appreciated!
I am looking forward to have fun and work with you on CouchDB :) All the best and Cheers Andy On 7 November 2014 23:27, Javier Candeira <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, +1 to Dirkjan's suggestion, so I'm adding to this thread with my > own introduction as a new committer. > > I'm Javier Candeira. I was born in Spain, and now I live in Melbourne > with my Australian wife and our two daughters. I work as a contract > developer/ops for different companies, perform hit-and-run fixes on > free projects from http://github.com/candeira, and also agitate for > Free Software and public data from barrapunto.com. In the past I've > worked for artists and art galleries, sold books for publishers and > retailers, taught at computing and design schools, written for > newspapers, and produced programmes for television. Though I've > tinkered with computers since high school, my professional career as a > programmer is relatively short. This I consider an asset more than a > liability, as I bring other points of view into my work. > > About a year ago I started using CouchDB for a work project that would > require state between dispersed bits of home/industrial equipment. I > fell in love with the software and the people of CouchDB. During this > year I've had the opportunity to do some tinkering and personal > prototypes, and I was a bit frustrated with the documentation, so when > I had a lull in work I started poking the JIRA tracker and the IRC > channel for ways I could help. That bit of work is ongoing with the > help of Andy and Noah, and it led to deeper involvement. I've proposed > a couple of patches to Fauxton, of which at least one has been merged; > also to the dev cluster runner, which is on hold (whistles while > looking nonchalant), and I'm learning Erlang by poking at the CouchDB > auth. > > It's very exciting to be part of the CouchDB project. I won't be able > to work on it full time like many of you, but I'd like to make myself > useful while I learn new things and have fun with new friends. Like > Ben said, I'll probably ask many questions. some of them very basic; I > hope to be able to contribute back at least as much as I ask of other > people. > > Javier Candeira > @candeira > > > > > > > > On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 3:50 AM, Ben Keen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > As per Dirkjan’s suggestion (+1, by the way), being a new committer I > > thought I’d send around a quick email to introduce myself. > > > > So hey! My name’s Ben Keen. I’m primarily a client-side developer and the > > bulk of my time will be spent working on Fauxton on behalf of Cloudant, > for > > whom I now work. I’m new to both CouchDB and Fauxton. These last few > weeks > > I’ve been wading through the Fauxton code getting up to speed. I’ve made > a > > few smaller contributions here and there but once I grasp the > fundamentals > > a little better I hope to contribute a good deal more. > > > > About me… I’ve been an open source programmer for many, many years and > > created a number of projects like generatedata.com, formtools.org, > d3pie.org, > > birdsearch.org. These days, anything of any faint value will be found > on my > > github account (http://github.com/benkeen). > > > > Anyway, it’s very good to be involved in CouchDB! Like I said, I’m new to > > it, so expect me to ask dumb questions from time to time while I get up > to > > speed. :) > > > > Oh, and I’m also a birder. So if I trap you in an IRC conversation about > > birds, I apologize in advance. It’ll be boring. Bring coffee. > > > > Ben > > Site: http://benjaminkeen.com > > Twitter: @vancouverben > -- Andy Wenk Hamburg - Germany RockIt! GPG fingerprint: C044 8322 9E12 1483 4FEC 9452 B65D 6BE3 9ED3 9588 https://people.apache.org/keys/committer/andywenk.asc
