Sounds funny to do this, but a chat conversation made me realize we may never meet each other in person. For those who are comfortable introducing themselves including where they live on a public forum, I'd welcome this, especially IPMC. No pressure if you feel uncomfortable.
I'll start. I'm Adrian and I accidentally walked in to tracing while working at Twitter when I lived in San Francisco. The project was a few years old, but needed re-owning.. since then (about March 2015), I've not stopped working on Zipkin. I moved companies to Pivotal, then moved to Georgetown Malaysia as well. It is easy for me to work on Zipkin because Pivotal sponsors my salary and routinely covers my travel to things like workshops and such. I'm very grateful for that. Truth be told, I am most interested in the community itself, you all keep me engaged even during the hard times of which there are many :P So, thanks.. I had experience in Apache before as I founded Apache jclouds. I am not completely happy with how I handled the transition into the incubator. I was impatient and sometimes not nice during the stressful moments, so I stepped down. I harbor some guilt about that still, though I try to shake it off for experience. Best advice I can give to folks new to the process is to be patient through acclimation and remember ASF is a volunteer organization. Anyway, I'm back and aim to be a better me. /me steps away from the (re)introduction mic --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
