On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 12:52 PM Neil McGovern <n...@gnome.org> wrote: > Dear Foundation members, > > After a long and robust recruitment process, I'm very pleased to > announce our first new staff member in a while. > Emmanuele Bassi will be joining us tomorrow (3rd December) to take on > the role of GTK+ Core Developer! > > Emmanuele has a long history of contributions to GTK, and has been a > Foundation member himself for over 12 years. > Previously working at Endless, Mozilla and Intel, where he contributed > to many components of the GNOME core development platform, I'm happy to > bring him on board to continue his commitment to the project. > > I'm sure you'll all give him a warm welcome in this new role! > > Thanks, > Neil
This is awesome news, and I'm extremely glad to hear that: 1) money is going to fund an excellent project / cause (GTK+) 2) we have such a well-known and talented (AFAIK, since I'm not a GTK+ expert) person working on this! Yay Emmanuele!! As long as nobody minds, I think I'll mention what I'm sure everyone already knows: funding free software hackers, is probably one of the best ways to improve free software, so I'm happy that the foundation is leading by example! One question: is Emmanuele given any particular tasks or direction for GTK+, eg: does the GNOME foundation have any specific priorities they'd like to address, or is it more self-directed? Thanks again, and keep it up! Can't wait till there is a second developer on board. James _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
