Re: Announcing our brand new Foundation Members

[Frederic Muller <fredm gnome org>]

On 03/23/2011 09:48 PM, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Andrea Veri<av<at>  gnome.org>  writes:
> > Hello folks!!
> >
> > Here we come with a nice list of the newly approved Foundation
> > Members!! Please welcome them into the greatest Foundation ever!
> >
> > They are: *
> [snip]
> > 3. Nirbheek Chauhan (Beagle, Gentoo GNOME Packaging and bug triaging, talks at
> Foss.in / FOSSKriti)
> [snip]
>
> This is me! Thanks for the welcome Andrea :)
>
> I'm currently in my final year of B.Tech in Civil Engineering, and in my third
> year of Gentoo + GNOME lovin'. My first experience of Linux/GNOME was via the
> Green Chameleon, but it was Hoary Hedgehog that first got me using GNOME
> full-time.
>
> However, soon afterwards, I was inducted into the conspiracy of Larry the Cow[1]
> by fellow GNOME-er Arun Raghavan. :P
>
> In the summer of 2008, I did a GSoC project as a student under Gentoo, got
> recruited as a Gentoo developer, and have been getting conned into being a GSoC
> mentor every year since.  I now co-maintain GNOME, Mozilla, and Telepathy
> packages in Gentoo[2].
>
> In more recent times, I've been following GNOME 3's progress closely[3], and
> have been helping in whatever way I can. I am proud to admit that using the
> Shell has changed window management forever for me. I'm constantly reminded of
> how much more efficient the Shell is when I'm forced to use one of the older
> DEs.
>
> However, GNOME 3 has a long road ahead of itself, and I look forward to being a
> part of 3.2, 3.4 and beyond :D
>
> Cheers!
>
> Nirbheek Chauhan
> IRC: nirbheek

Hey welcome!

Will we see you at the GNOME.Asia Summit in Bangalore?

Fred