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Denis Dupeyron | 1 Jun 2008 11:00
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New developer : Peter Alfredsen (loki_val)

It's my pleasure to introduce Peter Alfredsen (loki_val) as a new
Gentoo developer. Peter has been suffering from acute uncontrolled
patching and ebuild writing for some time. We made sure there was no
treatment for this and then invited him to join us so that he can
close himself the myriad bugs he has opened. He will be primarily
working with the sound, fonts and gcc porting teams.

Peter lives in Marstal on the beautiful island of Ærø, Denmark. He
studied economics at the University of Southern Denmark, but decided
at some point that earning money was more important. He claims his
skills are limited to fixing C code, and also C++ when threatened with
a pitchfork. He will refuse to do FORTRAN for aesthetic reasons (which
means you know FORTRAN, sinner).

Please give a warm welcome to loki_val. I believe he hasn't been
kicked on irc yet. So next time you see him take a good aim, recoil
and give him your best kick. Then tell him Calchan says hi.

Denis.
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Panagiotis Christopoulos | 1 Jun 2008 11:17
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Re: New developer : Peter Alfredsen (loki_val)

On 11:00 Sun 01 Jun     , Denis Dupeyron wrote:
> Please give a warm welcome to loki_val. I believe he hasn't been
> kicked on irc yet. So next time you see him take a good aim, recoil
> and give him your best kick. Then tell him Calchan says hi.
/me kicks loki_val

Welcome aboard Peter! :)

Panagiotis
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Petteri Räty | 2 Jun 2008 22:40
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New developer: Matt Fleming (mjf)

Matt "mjf" Fleming is joining our Security team and hails from Bradford, 
West Yorkshire, UK. He does does a lot of low-level programing but also 
gets his hands dirty with languages like Java. He is already a developer 
of NetBSD so maybe he will eventually join to maintain the Gentoo/NetBSD 
port. That would probably mean a huge boost to the user base. Matt is an 
avid read and collector of vinyl records of any genre. I guess they 
still have their uses besides being Frisbees.

Fire away,
Petteri
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William L. Thomson Jr. | 2 Jun 2008 22:47
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Re: New developer: Matt Fleming (mjf)

Welcome Matt

On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 23:40 +0300, Petteri Räty wrote:
> Matt "mjf" Fleming is joining our Security team and hails from Bradford, 
> West Yorkshire, UK. He does does a lot of low-level programing but also 
> gets his hands dirty with languages like Java. He is already a developer 
> of NetBSD so maybe he will eventually join to maintain the Gentoo/NetBSD 
> port. That would probably mean a huge boost to the user base.

Hmm, Java and BSD, sounds like a good match. Most of the Java stuff
needs loving on BSD. I have been waiting for some stuff to be keyworded
for months. I might look to see if I can't sucker/talk Matt into
keywording that stuff, and some others once he gets his feet wet. Or
maybe to wet his feet :)

>  Matt is an 
> avid read and collector of vinyl records of any genre. I guess they 
> still have their uses besides being Frisbees.

Yeah, and to collect vinyl these days, you really can't be specific to
any one genre, artist etc ;) Almost take what you can get times. I think
there might be one or two companies out there still making them.

I know audiophiles swear by them, and anything analog. Just fire up some
tubes (don't burn yourself) and spin some vinyl :)

I believe in the UK you all call them valve amplifiers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve_amplifier

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Robert Buchholz | 2 Jun 2008 23:17
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Re: New developer: Matt Fleming (mjf)

On Monday 02 June 2008, Petteri Räty wrote:
> Matt "mjf" Fleming is joining our Security team and hails from
> Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK. He does does a lot of low-level
> programing but also gets his hands dirty with languages like Java. He
> is already a developer of NetBSD so maybe he will eventually join to
> maintain the Gentoo/NetBSD port. That would probably mean a huge
> boost to the user base. Matt is an avid read and collector of vinyl
> records of any genre. I guess they still have their uses besides
> being Frisbees.

After months of doing the dirty work, welcome on board!

Robert
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Ryan Hill | 3 Jun 2008 02:58
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Re: New developer : Peter Alfredsen (loki_val)

On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 11:00:25 +0200
"Denis Dupeyron" <calchan <at> gentoo.org> wrote:

> It's my pleasure to introduce Peter Alfredsen (loki_val) as a new
> Gentoo developer. Peter has been suffering from acute uncontrolled
> patching and ebuild writing for some time. We made sure there was no
> treatment for this and then invited him to join us so that he can
> close himself the myriad bugs he has opened. He will be primarily
> working with the sound, fonts and gcc porting teams.

I expect to see him at the top of the bugs closed rankings in the GMN
next month. ;)

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Łukasz Damentko | 5 Jun 2008 02:00
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Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

Hi guys,

Nominations for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009 are open now and will be
open for the next two weeks (until 23:59 UTC, 18/06/2008).

All nominations must be sent to the gentoo-dev mailing list. If you
were nominated and want to run, you have to accept your nomination on
the same mailing list.

Here are the rules:

    *  Council elections generally happen once a year
    * The council is composed of seven elected members
    * Nominations are allowed from June 5th 0000 UTC to June 18th 2359 UTC
    * Only Gentoo developers may be nominated
    * Anyone can nominate (nominating yourself is OK)
    * Nominees must accept their nomination before voting begins
    * Voting is opened from June 21st 0000 UTC to July 4th 2359 UTC
      (there are two days of break between nominations and voting so
infra have time to set up everything)
    * Only Gentoo developers may vote
    * Gentoo uses the Condorcet method of voting

The page listing all nominations is here:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/voting-logs/council-2008-nominees.xml

If you don't know what the Gentoo Council is, you can read about it here:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/

If you want to ask a question or share your thoughts, contact any of
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Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò | 5 Jun 2008 17:34
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Re: Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

"Łukasz Damentko" <rane <at> gentoo.org> writes:

> Nominations for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009 are open now and will be
> open for the next two weeks (until 23:59 UTC, 18/06/2008).

I wish to nominate Halcy0n, Cardoe and leio.

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Roy Bamford | 5 Jun 2008 20:33
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009


On 2008.06.05 01:00, Łukasz Damentko wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> Nominations for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009 are open now and will be
> open for the next two weeks (until 23:59 UTC, 18/06/2008).

Team,

I don't want to nominate anyone who hasn't been nominated already.
I would like to address all the candidates who have or will accept 
council nominations.

1. Please tell us how/if you plan to fix GLEP 39. (You may not consider 
it broken)

2. As one of the first priorities will be setting policy for pending 
appeals what policy do you propose ?

3. If you are not on the council already, how will you make time for 
the extra work?

4. How do you think the council and trustees can work together to make 
Gentoo better?
Not just the code base but the cooperative environment we all work 
together in too. 
Disclosure - I have a personal interest in responses as a trustee.

5. Tell us a little about yourself - the skills and experience you can 
bring to the council?
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Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò | 5 Jun 2008 20:54
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Re: Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

Roy Bamford <neddyseagoon <at> gentoo.org> writes:

> 1. Please tell us how/if you plan to fix GLEP 39. (You may not consider 
> it broken)

Need to address better when a meeting is considered official (right now
it's not addressed at all, so anything is better), for the rest is fine
as it is.

> 2. As one of the first priorities will be setting policy for pending 
> appeals what policy do you propose ?

Council handles appeals, there's no conflict of interests: who gets
voted in is already known to not be entirely impartial and/or being in
charge of other decsion-making teams.

> 4. How do you think the council and trustees can work together to make 
> Gentoo better?
> Not just the code base but the cooperative environment we all work 
> together in too. 
> Disclosure - I have a personal interest in responses as a trustee.

Staying independent one of the other, with no hierarchical relationship
one way or the other.

> 5. Tell us a little about yourself - the skills and experience you can 
> bring to the council?

If you know me you know what I do, if you don't, I suggest just looking
at my blog (http://blog.flameeyes.eu/) there it's all you have to know,
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