From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.7 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFFEF1F954 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 13:09:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727072AbeHTQZJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Aug 2018 12:25:09 -0400 Received: from mail-it0-f41.google.com ([209.85.214.41]:55061 "EHLO mail-it0-f41.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726685AbeHTQZI (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Aug 2018 12:25:08 -0400 Received: by mail-it0-f41.google.com with SMTP id s7-v6so20430520itb.4 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 06:09:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-transfer-encoding; bh=VXJnfiJVGxTc7vEIJ6JJIeLTyOpMGvIDk1OtL8PhwzY=; b=dWOUWC3CVpJ7nBbmUChgv7DxvebvkwR8LqjnUDhEHi+XUHi+0fsV9kQrrkwYBdWHME 3Cy8LpRADBxzvpR5hRizBSCPdTKA3IyudFoOXMDb18ohsN12zVqiwNVQ5aH9umYkZz2b /VuUQfP4o1HAdNq+66LpVSDK6M7Ej/kGwm5uBb+kS6fV//tng2N2AhZNOND+z03/ENqY 5IozEaUjuKHcbSA5fBOLgyYLJHwpDPO81OENVgqCoAS9ymL1asdvfz9PWOASruSlqYUb ixp5nczhTsBuA1X695qkRaPR9hKf+WEt0cFsJzk4kRztSd9kaoZpR94xBOpE/v3E93Rm KREQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-transfer-encoding; bh=VXJnfiJVGxTc7vEIJ6JJIeLTyOpMGvIDk1OtL8PhwzY=; b=BPj+ZkqSn4BsllShMXmlp1J9A2EqcR+5h0JCQ+3gRR1DNOjiiFOcRCL35TtpkZyO0a gw6ENaqV7F1Z+WtBYNNIk9rWWSJXRaZYj2mixFVh2Xus01lHY0sEF97YIXhEvPX5a7EN 3f1qjtw1q1zwSAi5zik4ICGZ8NOvdUbZiJUz+YgIc8oaZ6vS4hJNJFfTmMBaT9ybpgRP sEkPqyY1etSN1Hq/JSgnbp0Q2vJaUCF0OGtEv0Lzrq460HHEcWUkBfIji/kr5UkECQB7 jTC2tOKqpWKq91CYmCFiFYCmB21XrvBy4wf4cwlNHecUtKCxicuZAf/IplrCK+Xp9iWW NmnQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AOUpUlEDgnbaA7+FOi0vBijHoI+K6EeCPk4YdGoY81HqQJggWwd20vc7 H7cwn81sadJYWPg43zYLupNsMI1H5Zx0DGckTEQL4aYN X-Google-Smtp-Source: AA+uWPy5yoZr6cG3OhkBviM2HqLVy5tbL7/gPEgILU+YuB2/og6u2AjtiUzl+EOucvIviqa08L8/fW+4I4K8bDZDJxU= X-Received: by 2002:a24:70b:: with SMTP id f11-v6mr12948724itf.137.1534770572977; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 06:09:32 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 2002:a4f:22d3:0:0:0:0:0 with HTTP; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 06:09:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20180816224138.GA15490@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: <20180816224138.GA15490@sigill.intra.peff.net> From: Christian Couder Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 15:09:32 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Git Project Leadership Committee To: Jeff King Cc: git , Junio C Hamano , =?UTF-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsCBCamFybWFzb24=?= Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 12:41 AM, Jeff King wrote: > So here are the nominations I came up with. If you'd like to nominate > somebody else (or yourself!), please do. If you have opinions, let me > know (public or private, as you prefer). > > - Christian Couder > - =C3=86var Arnfj=C3=B6r=C3=B0 Bjarmason Thanks for nominating both! > Both are active, have been around a long time, and have taken part in > non-code activities and governance discussions. My understanding is that > Christian freelances on Git, which doesn't quite fit my "volunteer > representative" request, but I think contracting on Git is its own > interesting perspective to represent (and certainly he spent many years > on the volunteer side). Yeah, I am freelancing since October 2015 mostly for GitLab, Booking.com and Protocol Labs as can be seen on my LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-couder-569a731/ I feel lucky to be considered mostly like a regular employee especially by GitLab and Protocol Labs. Both of these companies employ a high ratio of remote developers from around the world, who often have some kind of freelance legal status, so they give them as much as possible the same kind of perks or incentives (like stock options) as regular employees. GitLab is a very open and transparent company. The way it works is described in details in its Handbook (https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/). Its informal policy regarding Git has been to use regular released versions of Git in GitLab. If possible GitLab should use a recent version of Git to benefit from the latest improvements, though it should be compatible with old versions of Git, as this can be useful for example to people who want to build GitLab from source on top of a regular Linux distro that comes with an old Git. So for GitLab my work on Git has to be integrated upstream. I have been working on remote odb related things, which I haven't managed to get merged yet, and on a few other small things like delta islands for which things have been going better so far. I also do some Git support at GitLab (for Git users, GitLab developers, customers, sales people, ...). I am sponsored by them to participate in or give presentations at conferences (like FOSSASIA 2017, GSoC Mentor Summit, Bloomberg Hackathon, Git Merge, GitLab Summit, ...). And sometimes I do other marketing, security, developer relations or sales (like meeting a few French customers) related things. =C3=86var already talked in details about Booking.com and my work for them. I have been working much less for Protocol Labs than for GitLab or Booking.com since I started working for GitLab around 2 years ago. As with Git I had started working on my free time on IPFS (https://ipfs.io/) before I became a freelance working on it. So for Protocol Labs I have been using Sharness (https://github.com/chriscool/sharness/, which was created in 2011 by extracting t/test-lib.sh from Git) to add and maintain end to end tests to go-IPFS and other IPFS related projects. Around one year ago Protocol Labs made a successful ICO (Initial Coin Offering) for Filecoin (https://filecoin.io/) and since then things have become a bit more like in a regular company (which is not necessarily bad). I have also had a few consulting contracts from various French companies for a few days each about consulting or teaching Git/GitLab.