Hi list,
I've just become a member of the Foundation. I received a
welcome email encouraging me to introduce myself to this list.
So: hello! First of all I'm happy to be a member.
My last name is pronounced as if it started with the letter
K. I can be said to be from several different places but I
live in Vancouver, BC, Canada. On IRC I can sometimes be found
lurking under the nickname "ptomato". Using that name I also
answer questions on Stack Overflow about GTK and Autotools. I
usually sign myself "Philip C" on GNOME mailing lists to avoid
confusion with the many other Phil(l)ip(p(e))s.
It's 10 years ago this month that I started writing code
using GTK and the GNOME stack, in my "copious" spare time
while in grad school for experimental physics. Not until
several years after that did I actually make contributions to
GNOME. I started out by fixing a bug here and there, wandered
from there into documentation reviews, and tried to
participate remotely in hackfests from time to time. When I
started working for Endless I started writing more substantial
features, primarily for GJS so far. My first in-person
hackfest was this June's GTK hackfest in Toronto, where I
started some GTK patches that I still need to find time to
finish :-)
I've also written a few tools that other GNOME contributors
may find useful:
I look forward to seeing some of you at GUADEC in a few
weeks.
Regards,
Philip C
