I’m very happy to introduce the Eclipse Foundation’s newest staff member, Richard Burcher.
Richard will be helping me with “project stuff”. If you take a quick look at Richard’s blog or Twitter feed, you’ll notice that he’s got a an affinity for location/geo-sorts of things in particular and open source software in general (along with an apparent disdain for capital letters). As part of that, Richard has a bunch of experience working with and growing communities. I intend to fully exploit that experience.
We’ve already begun Richard’s immersion into all things Eclipse. It’s been a fascinating and valuable experience for me to explain how things work around here. Assembling materials for the Eclipse Committer Bootcamp, helped me illuminate potential areas for improvement in our process. Working with Richard over the last few days has had an even bigger effect. I’m excited that we’ve already identified a potential ways that we can improve and streamline our implementation of the Eclipse Development Process, while honoring its fundamental underlying principles.
I’m excited by the potential for us to do more to help our open source projects evangelize and court their communities.
More on this later. But for now, please join me in warmly welcoming Richard aboard.
