Re: Introduction: Philip Chimento

Nice we have you ! Congrats and keep the good work !


Cheers,

    -- Juanjo Marin


On 08/08/2016 07:56 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> 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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