My name is Joey deVilla, and here at Tucows, I have the rather lengthy title of "Technical Community Development Coordinator". It's sixteen syllables long; I'm just one short of having a haiku for a job title. I often shorten my title to TC/DC partly for convenience and partly as an homage to AC/DC, one of my favourite bands. (The AC/DC homage also lets me twist one of their lyrics into my slogan: "Nerdy Deeds Done Dirt Cheap!")
As Tucows' TC/DC, it's my job to liaise between our development team, and you, the developer using Tucows' OpenSRS platform and client tools. Part of my job is to make your life easier. That doesn't mean that I'm going to help you paint your house or do your groceries for you, but it *does* mean that I will be working to make sure that you have the tools and information that you need and in order to work with our platform. I'll also be working with our product management team, making sure that developer priorities get represented along with business and customer priorities. Don't think of me as a sales engineer -- they're still the ones to talk to for assistance -- but I work with them in order to find ways to serve you better.
The other part of my job is to make sure that Tucows is aware of what's going on "out there" with developers who use our platform, gathering information on your preferred tools, programming languages and anything else you use to get your job done.
Think of me as your man on the inside, and Tucows' man on the outside.
My first task in this new position is research. As a developer myself, I understand that I can't do my job without knowing what it's like to be in the shoes of developers who build systems that connect with OpenSRS. I'll be contacting developers who've been working on their own open source OpenSRS clients. I want to find out what motivated them to "roll their own", what design choices they made and why, how far they got in the development process, and what the final outcome of their development was. From these communications, I hope to find out what we can do to give you what you need and help you get your work done.
Simply put, I'll be learning from you and in return, your life will become easier. Sounds like a sweet deal, doesn't it?
I look forward to working with you!
-- ___________________________________________________ Joey deVilla - [EMAIL PROTECTED] TC/DC (Technical Community Development Coordinator) "Nerdy Deeds Done Dirt Cheap"
