======================== 2. [Gentoo's] Developer of the Week ========================
"I sacrifice my x86 hardware on the altar of source-built distros!" - Joshua Saddler, nightmorph ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Figure 2.1: Joshua Saddler, aka nightmorph http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20070305_nightmorph.jpg Joshua Saddler, also known as nightmorph, is this week's featured developer. He is 24 years old and resides in San Diego, CA, which is in the South-West of the US, next to the Mexican border. Josh lives with his wife Melanie; they celebrate eight months of marriage - congrats! In 2005, Josh graduated college with a degree in theater. He has always been into art, theater, and music classes; so much so that he's been playing the piano for 16 years. In his free time, Josh likes to read, write, listen to music and browse the local bookshops. Josh's love of literature is obvious. He currently works as a librarian and worked in a bookshop prior to that. Though he's shy to admit it, Joshua's poetry has been published. When he's reading, which is whenever he can find time, it will probably be a fantasy novel. His favorite authors are Timothy Zahn, David Weber, and J.R.R. Tolkien. Josh likes chill/world/ethereal music, though he enjoys a wide range of music types, which goes from jazz to rock, even to classical. Like any good developer, he also enjoys relaxing with a good online fragfest: UT2004 on his AMD64! Josh started using Linux after seeing a friend using Linspire. After a lot of research, he found his favorite Linux flavor: Gentoo. Some time later, after wondering how he could give back to Gentoo, he decided to help with the Gentoo Documentation Project[8], since he isn't into programming. Josh joined the documentation team and contributes documentation for other projects in need. His documentation skills have been put to good use for various teams, including the newly formed Xfce project. Josh reflects on the last two years of being a developer from his being mentored by Shyam Mani[9] to his recent contributions on his blog post[10]. 8. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gdp/ 9. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10. http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/nightmorph/2007/01/ When Josh's AMD64 workstation boots, he opts for a GNOME session and the following applications: gnome-terminal, audacious, Firefox, Thunderbird, gvim, irssi, mplayer for movies and k3b for writing discs. Also of noteworthy mention is his laptop, a vintage 2001 Toshiba that has burned out two hard drives, various sticks of ram, and even a memory slot whilst compiling Gentoo over the last few years! -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
