Welcome Marvin! I love your migration from music into software :) What a great perspective!
Mike http://blog.mikemccandless.com On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Marvin Humphrey <mar...@rectangular.com> wrote: > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:57:59AM -0700, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) wrote: >> Marvin, welcome aboard! Please feel free to mention a little bit about >> yourself, and congrats! > > Thank you, Chris, thank you to the rest of Lucy's Mentors (Chris Hostetter, > Upayavira, Mike McCandless and Joe Schaefer), and thank you to all the > individuals who have built up the institution of the Apache Incubator over the > years, including the present membership of the Incubator PMC. > > I currently work for Eventful, in San Diego, California, as a backend > engineer. The majority of my time is dedicated to working on open source at > Apache, principally Lucy. I feel fortunate to have such a great job, and it > would please me to see more people get jobs like mine. > > Before I went into software, I worked for a recording studio, doing stints in > graphic design and prepress and as an audio mastering engineer. My background > is in music, and my happiest moments as a programmer come when I make > intuitive leaps reminiscent of successful musical improvisations. > > As a self-taught developer, I have consumed a great deal of tutorial and > reference documentation, trawled through many mailing list archives, and > sought to insert myself myself into many learning opportunities. > Participating in the incubation of a project at Apache has been one of the > most intense and enriching of these experiences; I am grateful for what I have > learned here, and now I look forward to contributing what I can to the > Incubator's podlings and accumulated wisdom. > > Cheers, > > Marvin Humphrey > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
