Dear apn-pucky,

Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org> writes:

> Hey all,
>
> Gentoo and Science, is there a more memorable pair? When you look at
> CERN or EESSI (European Environment for Scientific Software
> Installations) for example, you might run into this familiar distro
> name. So it's no wonder brilliant minds from the science field are drawn
> to Gentoo. And that's exactly where our newest developer comes from: Let
> me introduce Alexander Puck Neuwirth from Italy! After my short teaser,
> this is what Alexander writes about himself:
>
> "I finished my PhD last year in Physics and started my first PostDoc. I
> like to use Gentoo to manage my physics code, so I am/want to be
> strongly involved in the gentoo science/physics project. I believe that
> Gentoo is a good development environment for scientific software (-ggdb
> env for all sci-physics), and I want to help make it better. Further
> Gentoo allowed me to stay on close contact with upstream and providing
> benefits for both sides. I keep a gentoo fleet of laptops, server,
> desktop, raspberrypis, a milkv and a visionfive SBC updated with
> ansible. I have used Gentoo for over 6 years and never looked back.
> Recently, I picked up further developing pkg-testing-tools and started
> my own project pkgpr to submit PRs to gentoo. I like to routinely check
> my repo's ebuilds using my CI system and I am involved in the
> gentoo-prefix, by providing automatized CI testing similar to the
> tinderbox."
>
> Since we've recently lost two prominent CI/tinderbox projects, let's
> hope "someone" gets more involved offering tinderbox support for the
> whole distro ;)
>
> Please give him a warm welcome!

Welcome onboard!  I'm pleased to see a growing number of developers
supporting Gentoo for physics and scientific software, and that more
Gentoo Prefix instances are being utilized in prestigious scientific
projects!

Yours,
Benda