Congratulations Bertil, very well deserved, welcome aboard! Best regards, Alessandro
On Mon, 17 Oct 2022 at 11:31, Bertil Chapuis <bchap...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you all for the warm welcome. I’m really honoured to join the Apache > Calcite project as a committer. > > A few words about myself. I’m a software engineer living with my wife and > two kids in Switzerland (french speaking part). I spend about half of my > time teaching software engineering at the university of applied sciences > and arts of western Switzerland and the second half conducting research > projects with local companies. Research wise, I have a strong interest for > databases, distributed systems, geographic information systems, and open > source. Apache Calcite caught my attention as I was looking for solutions > to optimise advanced geospatial queries. From a relational algebra > perspective, I feel that this is an area where a lot remains to be done. > Apart from coding, I like hiking, bike riding, skying, and spending time > exploring nature with my family. > > I look forward to our future exchanges and to getting to know you better. > > Best, > > Bertil > > > On 17 Oct 2022, at 09:23, Stamatis Zampetakis <zabe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Becoming a committer in under 2 months (after first commit to the repo) > is > > quite impressive and a proof that quality work and positive interactions > > are much appreciated. > > > > Congratulations Bertil, and welcome to the community! > > > > Best, > > Stamatis > > > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 3:59 AM Jiajun Xie <jiajunbernou...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > >> Congrats, Bertil! > >> > >> On Mon, 17 Oct 2022 at 08:28, Benchao Li <libenc...@apache.org> wrote: > >> > >>> Congratulations, Bertil! > >>> > >>> Francis Chuang <francischu...@apache.org> 于2022年10月17日周一 05:30写道： > >>> > >>>> Congrats, Bertil! > >>>> > >>>> On 17/10/2022 8:29 am, Julian Hyde wrote: > >>>>> Apache Calcite's Project Management Committee (PMC) has invited > >> Bertil > >>>>> Chapuis to become a committer, and we are pleased to announce that he > >>>>> has accepted. > >>>>> > >>>>> Over a few months, Bertil has revitalized Calcite's geospatial > >>>>> support, with commits that switched our geospatial library from ESRI > >>>>> to the more modern JTS and proj4j libraries, and broadened our > >> support > >>>>> for the industry-standard geospatial functions that are in PostGIS > >> and > >>>>> Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Simple Features, including adding > >>>>> geospatial aggregate functions. He has been easy to work with, and > >> his > >>>>> contributions are of a uniformly high quality. > >>>>> > >>>>> Incidentally, Bertil is one of the initial committers of the Baremaps > >>>>> project, which has just entered the Apache Incubator. > >>>>> > >>>>> Bertil, welcome, thank you for your contributions, and we look > >> forward > >>>>> to your further interactions with the community! If you wish, please > >>>>> feel free to tell us more about yourself and what you are working on. > >>>>> > >>>>> As your first commit, please add yourself to the contributors list > >> [1] > >>>>> and the community page will re-generate [2]. > >>>>> > >>>>> Julian (on behalf of the Apache Calcite PMC) > >>>>> > >>>>> [1] > >>>> > >> https://github.com/apache/calcite/blob/main/site/_data/contributors.yml > >>>>> > >>>>> [2] https://calcite.apache.org/community/#project-members > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> > >>> Best, > >>> Benchao Li > >>> > >> > >
