Introduction: Philip Chimento

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:
https://github.com/ptomato/jasmine-gjs - Port of the Jasmine test framework
to GJS that integrates nicely with Autotools
https://github.com/ptomato/osxcart - Library for interfacing between GNOME
and file formats commonly used in Mac OSX such as plist and RTF(D)

I look forward to seeing some of you at GUADEC in a few weeks.

Regards,
Philip C

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