From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5166C138334 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2018 10:52:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6A2C7E0839; Sun, 10 Jun 2018 10:52:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 308BBE0833 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2018 10:52:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sf (trofi-1-pt.tunnel.tserv1.lon2.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f1c:a0f::2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: slyfox) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 42571335C89; Sun, 10 Jun 2018 10:52:41 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2018 11:52:35 +0100 From: Sergei Trofimovich To: vdupras@gentoo.org Cc: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] New Developer: Virgil Dupras (vdupras) Message-ID: <20180610115235.4b7611b2@sf> In-Reply-To: <7fe2c87d-a3f9-f11e-7cb4-f5570239b7d1@gentoo.org> References: <7fe2c87d-a3f9-f11e-7cb4-f5570239b7d1@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.16.0 (GTK+ 2.24.32; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 8917e64f-7986-4708-b0f8-89d5bff12c05 X-Archives-Hash: 81506e09709881d860e7258eae4cbd1e On Fri, 8 Jun 2018 19:49:39 +0300 Mikle Kolyada wrote: > Good evening community! > > It is my pleasure to announce the latest addition to our family. > > Virgil Dupras is joining us from Monreal, Canada. > He has been working on embedded and virtualization stuff ( and will > continue his work as an official developer). > Here is how he describes himself: > > "I'm a free software enthusiast who uses Gentoo in my quest to master my > computer-related tools. Technology is supposed to free us rather than > control > us. I also happen to be a professional software developer. I mostly do web > development but my hobby time is spent exploring electronics (only dealt > with > AVR MCUs so far). > > I've been using Gentoo for 5 years and been very happy with it but I always > felt unable to help the Gentoo project as a normal user. All efforts from > users (such as PRs) always seem to be met with by developers who are > overloaded. > That's why I want to share the load a little bit and become a developer > myself. I hope I'm up to the task." > > Please give him a warm welcome! Woohoo! Welcome and good luck! -- Sergei