Hello stackers! This is an email to introduce myself.
Summary: I'm looking forward to participating in the OpenStack movement! Hooah! You may know me as my stage name Lloyd Budd [1] from the still hit TV show WordPress, where I've participated these last 6 years, the last 5 working for Automattic as WordPress.com VIP Services Technical Lead (pointy haired non-programmer) mostly in support, quality assurance, and outreach (commenting on blogs, ha!). One of my favorite experiences in the WordPress community has been the success of my brainchild "Happiness Bars" support desk [2] at WordPress WordCamp conferences. Every year (4), I ran the Happiness Bar at WordCamp SF ( sf.wordcamp.org ) the biggest, and granddaddy of the WordCamps. I don't know if we are currently doing these at OpenStack related community events, but I'd be eager to participate. Later all get some info in the wiki, and start a separate thread. You may also know me from the cancelled show Flock, "the Social Browser". "Web 2.0" poster child that never did well in the ratings. I was an early team member there, but only stayed a year of it's 6 year existence. I did a short stint before that working on the un-Netscape, unopen Netscape 8 browser and 9 -- the team behind it was incredible, but AOL insisted on a monstrosity and so that is what we created [3]. I did some small Firefox participating along the way. My career started with 4 years with IBM on a special DB2 Multi-platform (Windows, Linux, Unix) High Availability and Down Systems team as a Advanced Support Analyst. My OSS participations at the time were confined to my local LUG -- I am reminded of one gem where I asked Debian Legal "GPL , what does it mean? -- the name that is.", http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.legal/11173 . I'm hoping this is the gig where I break into film! This week I've started with Joshua McKenty and Christopher MacGown's Piston Cloud Computing. My primary role is Advanced Technical Support Lead. I'm relocating to San Francisco, BC, Canada from Victoria, BC, Canada. And will be traveling back and forth two weeks at a time until wife Julia and two incredible young children join me here in March. I still have lots to do before... I can get paid ;-) You can find out more about me with a web search on my names, or foolswisdom. Cheers, Lloyd -- 1. Legal name until I more recently reverted to my birth name. 2. Originally "Genius Bar", that SM encumbered name not being my idea ;-) 3. Dual rendering engine with live switching -- cookies, history and all: Mozilla Gecko (Firefox) & Microsoft Trident (IE). It almost made sense at the time in 2004, where many sites still only worked well on IE. It was before I came on board, but I'm told the team had to fight to get the Gecko engine included at all -- imagine what that would have been, a Netscape with zarro mozilla code. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp