On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 7:41 AM, Jason Marshall <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi
>
>
> My name is Jason Marshall. I am writing in order to introduce myself to
> the project in the first instance. I am aiming to contribute to the
> project from a development point of view, but would be interested in
> helping with testing and documentation. I am from Newcastle Upon Tyne in
> the United Kingdom and originally trained to degree level in Software
> Engineering in 2001. I then went on to work for the internal software
> house in British telecom for five years, which included roles such as
> developer, component designer and a little simple solution design. I
> worked heavily with extract, transform and load aspects of data
> warehousing, coding in PLSQL and Ab Initio. I would also inherently write
> Unix shell scripts, which I particularly enjoyed. I subsequently moved to
> some design and made us of the Unified Modelling Language. I have had some
> experience of ‘hot house' development. I also have experience with Java
> and C++, as well as the usual skills with HTML. I enjoy writing and
> working to document complex ideas so that they are accessible to everyone,
> hence my interest in documentation.
>
>
> I left IT in 2006 in order to retrain in a social science role and
> currently work in such a role for local government. However, I am aware
> that currently demand for IT professionals is high and I would like to
> re-enter the profession and so hope to be able to refresh my skills and
> experience, as well as giving something back and serving this project. I
> have been a long-time user of OpenOffice, having first installed it when I
> was handed a free CD by Sun Microsystems in 1999. Consequently, I have
> used OpenOffice for many years.
>
>
> Away from IT, I enjoy rowing, swimming and playing underwater hockey. I
> also love world cinema, as well as travelling in Europe.
>
>
> I am working through the orientation modules as well as embarking on the
> building process; due to having a day job and also looking to build on
> Windows 7 platform, this may take some time.
>
>
> Kind regards
>
>
> Jason
Welcome Jason and thank you for this nice introduction. I'm sure ou can
find help with building on Windows 7 from this "dev" list.
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