Hi All, Thanks for the welcome :)
I work as senior programmer at Indra (http://www.indracompany.com/en) for an R&D&I project using Hadoop and HBase. That led us to Gora and to try to fix some bugs. We expect to use Pig, so further steps surely will be implementing a Gora-Pig Connector (if no other implements it). The leaders of the project I work on were enthusiastic about the idea of submitting patches to Gora: we assure next versions will incorporate that patches and, since the project I work on has public funds, it is something much positive for the project justification. I started looking Hadoop about four months ago and went looking Gora two months ago. Before this august I did not know anything about Hadoop, NoSQL nor BigData, so it is something very new for me. About personal information, first tell that I never expected this offer. I think about Apache Project's developers as outstanding engineers/programmers and feel confused looking myself ;P I will try to give my best. I am a 30 years old spaniard (although my surname). I like much my job since I am learning much things, and in my spare time I do housework (things don't get clean by themselves and takes time), a bit gym, and sometimes I have time left to add things to my own server ( www.nishilua.com) and read IT books/articles/etc. At this time I am engaged in an artistic project with Arduino too (another hobby). About java, I programmed in java at the university (and C++0x) and a bit decompiling Minecraft to mod the server, but nothing more. By now, only worked professionally as web programmer in PHP and some months with Delphi XE2. I enjoy much working in group and I am much grateful for the kindness found in Gora. Furthermore, this is an exceptional opportunity for me to learn a lot of things, so thank you too for that. If you find I make mistakes, let me know hem; I will appreciate it. My english is not much good, but fortunately www.wordreference.com allows me to know some translations ;P. My grammar is really horrible. Just sorry! If there is any curiosity question, I am open to them :) Cheers, Alfonso
