Hi Joey,
Nice to meet you.
m2
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 17:33:12 -0400
Joey deVilla <jdevilla@tucows.com> wrote:
>Hi there!
>
>My name is Joey deVilla, and here at Tucows, I have the
>rather lengthy title of "Technical Community Development
>Coordinator". It's sixteen syllables long; I'm just one
>short of having a haiku for a job title. I often shorten
>my title to TC/DC partly for convenience and partly as an
>homage to AC/DC, one of my favourite bands. (The AC/DC
>homage also lets me twist one of their lyrics into my
>slogan: "Nerdy Deeds Done Dirt Cheap!")
>
>As Tucows' TC/DC, it's my job to liaise between our
>development team, and you, the developer using Tucows'
>OpenSRS platform and client tools. Part of my job is to
>make your life easier. That doesn't mean that I'm going to
>help you paint your house or do your groceries for you,
>but it *does* mean that I will be working to make sure
>that you have the tools and information that you need and
>in order to work with our platform. I'll also be working
>with our product management team, making sure that
>developer priorities get represented along with business
>and customer priorities. Don't think of me as a sales
>engineer -- they're still the ones to talk to for
>assistance -- but I work with them in order to find ways
>to serve you better.
>
>The other part of my job is to make sure that Tucows is
>aware of what's going on "out there" with developers who
>use our platform, gathering information on your preferred
>tools, programming languages and anything else you use to
>get your job done.
>
>Think of me as your man on the inside, and Tucows' man on
>the outside.
>
>My first task in this new position is research. As a
>developer myself, I understand that I can't do my job
>without knowing what it's like to be in the shoes of
>developers who build systems that connect with OpenSRS.
>I'll be contacting developers who've been working on their
>own open source OpenSRS clients. I want to find out what
>motivated them to "roll their own", what design choices
>they made and why, how far they got in the development
>process, and what the final outcome of their development
>was. From these communications, I hope to find out what we
>can do to give you what you need and help you get your
>work done.
>
>Simply put, I'll be learning from you and in return, your
>life will become easier. Sounds like a sweet deal, doesn't
>it?
>
>I look forward to working with you!
>
>--
>___________________________________________________
>Joey deVilla - jdevilla@tucows.com
>TC/DC (Technical Community Development Coordinator)
>"Nerdy Deeds Done Dirt Cheap"
>
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