Welcome Ioana! You are already (by default) a contributor! We also welcome any discussion you wish to engage here on anything dev. related including suggestions for new feature designs for any part of the project.
Also, please see our new Wiki with some info on contributors/committers (just drafted yesterday and open for comments): https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OPENWHISK/OpenWhisk+Project+Wiki It includes the basics of what it takes to become a committer. I would be grateful if you let me know if it is clear enough and provide feedback. Kind regards, Matt From: Ioana Baldini/Watson/IBM@IBMUS To: [email protected] Date: 01/26/2017 12:58 PM Subject: Hi, My name is... Greetings! My name is Ioana Baldini. I am a Research Staff Member at IBM Research. I've been contributing to the OpenWhisk project before it became an open source project. Last year, my main contribution was the implementation of sequences as first-class entities in our system. Sequences is one of the features our users like the most. In addition to my work in serverless and cloud infrastructure, I collaborate with researchers from the Data science department from IBM Research on projects related to Data Science for Social Good. We partner with not-for-profit organizations, NGOs and social enterprises to attack problems with social impact. I'm originally from Romania, grew up on the Black Sea coast and did my undergrad in Computer Science and Engineering at Poli in Bucharest (official name University Politehnica of Bucharest). I've been in North America for the last 15 years, first in Canada for my Masters and PhD, and then in the US, interning with Intel, IBM Research and now working full-time at IBM Research. OpenWhisk is my first open source project. I would like to be promoted to a contributor so I can fully participate in this project. Bonus: I will improve ASF's diversity numbers :) Looking forward to be working with everyone and be part of the serverless revolution! Cheers, Ioana PS: Congrats (and thank you!) to ASF for conducting the diversity survey and making the results publicly available! Perhaps next time around, the survey could include numbers on contributors vs. committers. Curios if they are any different.
