It's my usual pleasure to announce some new blood coming in to replace some of the old going away. Joe is joining us from Lafayette, CO, USA to help with the Gentoo/FreeBSD work. Here is how he describes it himself:
"I would like to be able to help Gentoo in several ways. Many Gentoo packages need maintainers, and some of those packages I am very fond of. An example is xtrs, to which I have contributed (upstream) in the past. Working with a dev on that was great, but it made me feel even more strongly that, "Hey, I should *be* a dev!" so I can help out more profoundly. I also have an interest in Gentoo/FreeBSD and in helping it to grow." And on the personal side: For work, I run the science operations center for several unmanned space missions in Boulder, Colorado. My biggest current project is New Horizons (it just passed Jupiter on its way to Pluto). We post pictures quite often, if you are interested (there's a great movie loop of Tvashtar, a volcano on IO erupting there now): http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/ There's a link near the center of that page about my group (Sci. Ops. Center). It's great fun most of the time! Seeing a launch is pretty damn cool - my first and only was in 1/2006 and that was New Horizons. I'm now starting to work on two Mars missions. My personal pages are here: http://www.skyrush.com/joe/ Please give him the usual weird welcome. IRC was a good start :) Regards, Petteri -- Gentoo/Recruiters lead
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