Please say that you're coming to Railscamp. Would love to hear more about the volunteer work that you've been doing.
Jonathan On 26 March 2010 10:50, Mikel Lindsaar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello All, > > This is just a general shout out to the community. > > For the last 10 years I have been working as a volunteer for a not for > profit organisation, doing IT, systems integration, VOIP, Internet and > Intranet deployments, network installations and custom Rails and > PostgreSQL solutions (including integration with SQL Server and > Oracle) . > > Yes, that's right, volunteer (food and board only) but doing lots of > work for Drug education, volunteer relief work, criminal and drug > rehabilitation et al, it's been a blast. > > In February this year I finished as a volunteer (10 years can kill > anyone's bank balance) and moved back into the work force and have > been doing, among other things, consulting work for Yehuda at Engine > Yard, I took over RailsPlugins.org 4 weeks ago and have polished it up > to a high shine, this week I'll be finishing this project and so have > a free slot and I am interested in any work people have available. > > I am the author of the Mail gem, maintainer of TMail and recently > rewrote the ActionMailer API and am in the top 15 rails contributors. > I code all parts of the Rails and Sinatra stacks, from spec'ing and > installing servers, through deployment, high volume database design > installation and deployment, web server deployments, caching systems, > firewalls, VOIP integration, UJS, CSS and design, though I tend to > farm out core design work to one of my design worker bees. I also > happen to be an Internet plumber (understand routing protocols and can > tame wild Ciscos). > > If you need something done fast (and correctly), perhaps an internal > project that has been nagging at you and never done or a complex > client project that needs that extra push, please send me an email. I > am located in Sydney, but with the magic of the interwebs space and > time are no barriers and if it is an interesting project I am happy to > fly around to discuss things further if they need it :) > > I am also the primary author of the Rails 3 Release Notes (went > through all the commits!!!), so I have quite a familiarity with Rails > 3 and am available for initial work upgrading existing projects to > this new little package of awesomeness. > > Oh, and if you are going to RailsConf 2010, I'll see you there! I'll > be doing a talk on the whole TMail / Mail / ActionMailer fiasco :) > > Regards, > > Mikel > > -- > http://rubyx.com/ > http://lindsaar.net/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<rails-oceania%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
