[gentoo-project] New developer: Jay Faulkner (jayf)

[gentoo-project] New developer: Jay Faulkner (jayf)

[Joonas Niilola]

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Hey,

while not all the news you've heard from the US has been great recently,
I assure you: this piece is. Because today I can introduce a true OSS
veteran joining our ranks: Jay Faulkner from the US. If you're not
familiar with Jay, let me post what he writes about himself:

"I live in Lakewood, WA with my wife, Vanessa, dog Apollo, and two cats
Aeon and Neptune. I'm a big sports fan, mainly ice hockey and NASCAR
racing.  I'm glad to
become a Gentoo developer because over 20 years ago my experience
learning linux skills on the fly – including installing Gentoo after
flunking out of college
kicked off my career and helped start me on the path to where I am now.
A self-taught person with a distribution built around self-help and
documentation
is a clear match :D.

While I'm not paid to work on Gentoo specifically, I do work full time
on OSS for G-Research Open Source Software. This includes hosting a
podcast on open
source, the GR-OSS OUTreach podcast. https://podcast.gr-oss.io – and I
generate OSS-related content on their youtube at
https://youtube.com/@oss-gr.

My primary technical OSS focus is OpenStack, where I've been a core
developer on Ironic for over ten years, including multiple stints as
Project Team Lead for
Ironic and Technical Committee member. I served as chair for the
Technical Committee during the 2024.1 release cycle."

And for anyone trying to be funny:
  "<+negril> ah finally OpenStack ebuilds in gentoo :^)"
this joke is already heard :)

Please give Jay a warm welcome!

-- juippis

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Re: [gentoo-project] New developer: Jay Faulkner (jayf)

[James Le Cuirot]

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On Thu, 2025-03-13 at 07:36 +0200, Joonas Niilola wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> while not all the news you've heard from the US has been great recently,
> I assure you: this piece is. Because today I can introduce a true OSS
> veteran joining our ranks: Jay Faulkner from the US. If you're not
> familiar with Jay, let me post what he writes about himself:
> 
> "I live in Lakewood, WA with my wife, Vanessa, dog Apollo, and two cats
> Aeon and Neptune. I'm a big sports fan, mainly ice hockey and NASCAR
> racing.  I'm glad to
> become a Gentoo developer because over 20 years ago my experience
> learning linux skills on the fly – including installing Gentoo after
> flunking out of college
> kicked off my career and helped start me on the path to where I am now.
> A self-taught person with a distribution built around self-help and
> documentation
> is a clear match :D.
> 
> While I'm not paid to work on Gentoo specifically, I do work full time
> on OSS for G-Research Open Source Software. This includes hosting a
> podcast on open
> source, the GR-OSS OUTreach podcast. https://podcast.gr-oss.io – and I
> generate OSS-related content on their youtube at
> https://youtube.com/@oss-gr.
> 
> My primary technical OSS focus is OpenStack, where I've been a core
> developer on Ironic for over ten years, including multiple stints as
> Project Team Lead for
> Ironic and Technical Committee member. I served as chair for the
> Technical Committee during the 2024.1 release cycle."
> 
> And for anyone trying to be funny:
>   "<+negril> ah finally OpenStack ebuilds in gentoo :^)"
> this joke is already heard :)
> 
> Please give Jay a warm welcome!
> 
> -- juippis

Welcome indeed! It's great to see Gentoo building careers. It certainly helped
mine, and now I really am paid to work on it some of the time. I didn't know
what Ironic was, but now I do. :)

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[gentoo-project] Re: New developer: Jay Faulkner (jayf)

[Florian Schmaus]

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On 13/03/2025 06.36, Joonas Niilola wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> while not all the news you've heard from the US has been great recently,
> I assure you: this piece is. Because today I can introduce a true OSS
> veteran joining our ranks: Jay Faulkner from the US.

Welcome, it's nice to see the OpenStack expertise within Gentoo grow!

- Flow

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[gentoo-project] Re: New developer: Jay Faulkner (jayf)

[Patrick McLean]

On 2025-03-12 22:36, Joonas Niilola wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> while not all the news you've heard from the US has been great recently,
> I assure you: this piece is. Because today I can introduce a true OSS
> veteran joining our ranks: Jay Faulkner from the US. If you're not
> familiar with Jay, let me post what he writes about himself:
> 
> "I live in Lakewood, WA with my wife, Vanessa, dog Apollo, and two cats
> Aeon and Neptune. I'm a big sports fan, mainly ice hockey and NASCAR
> racing.  I'm glad to
> become a Gentoo developer because over 20 years ago my experience
> learning linux skills on the fly – including installing Gentoo after
> flunking out of college
> kicked off my career and helped start me on the path to where I am now.
> A self-taught person with a distribution built around self-help and
> documentation
> is a clear match :D.
> 
> While I'm not paid to work on Gentoo specifically, I do work full time
> on OSS for G-Research Open Source Software. This includes hosting a
> podcast on open
> source, the GR-OSS OUTreach podcast. https://podcast.gr-oss.io – and I
> generate OSS-related content on their youtube at
> https://youtube.com/@oss-gr.
> 

Welcome Jay, well deserved.