Re: Welcome Björn Kautler (Vampire)

Welcome, Björn! For what it's worth, I've already had cause to be grateful
for your contributions to Geb, so I'm quite glad you're an official
committer now.

On Sun, Aug 23, 2026 at 6:28 PM Björn Kautler <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi folks
>
> Thanks for the warm welcome and the invite to become an official Apache
> committer for Groovy.
>
> I guess many of you know me already from many FOSS places over the years
> either from being pestered by me with bug reports or PRs,
> or because me being the maintainer, or from helping in various forums,
> Slacks, IRC channels and so on.
>
> I'm into computers since early childhood and into FOSS for at least 25
> years now,
> being a committer on Spock, one of the maintainers of jEdit, providing
> some things built from scratch like my setup-wsl GitHub Action
> and contributed to many projects over the years, so you most probably
> already used code by me one way or the other even if you didn't know. :-)
> And now I'm also an official Apache commiter for Groovy.
>
> I studied business informatics and am also working as software engineer at
> daytime, building *the* standard software for civil and military aviation
> regulators
> at EMPIC, the world-market leader in our little niche with over 40
> customers (there are usually max 2 possible per country).
>
> If you have any questions, feel free to shout out.
> But beward, I'm often extremely bad in answering e-mails, especially in a
> timely manner. :-(
> I'm often better reachable e.g. in the Groovy Slack.
>
> Cheers
> Björn
>
>
>
> Am Fr., 21. Aug. 2026 um 22:08 Uhr schrieb Carl Marcum <
> [email protected]>:
>
>> Welcome Björn!
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Carl
>>
>> On 8/20/26 5:11 AM, Paul King wrote:
>>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Apologies for not getting this out sooner, but we welcome our newest
>> committer Björn Kautler (Vampire).
>>
>> Many of you will know Björn from his work on Spock. He has also
>> actively contributed to Geb. It is great to have him on the team!
>>
>> Welcome Björn!
>>
>> Cheers, Paul.
>> P.S. Björn, feel free to tell us a bit about yourself (if you want) or
>> ask any questions.
>>
>>