Welcome to the community. Regards, Emil
www.needguide.com Have added your website yet? > Hi there! > > 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"
