diff -r 0f0ff7d19cfc motivations.rst --- a/motivations.rst Sun Oct 11 22:15:23 2015 +1000 +++ b/motivations.rst Sun Oct 11 13:39:30 2015 -0400 @@ -133,3 +133,31 @@ remains an excellent choice for Linux-based network service development, he is also interested in helping to ensure its continued suitability for educational and data analysis use cases. + +.. topic:: R. David Murray (United States) + + * Personal site: `bitdance.com `_ + * Available for `Python and Internet Services Consulting + and Python contract programming `_ + + David has been involved in the Internet since the days when the old IBM + Bitnet and the ArpaNet got cross connected, and in Python programming since + he first discovered it around the days of Python 1.4. After transitioning + from being Director of Operations for dialup Internet providers when that + business started declining to being a full time independent consultant, + David started contributing directly to CPython development, becoming a + committer in 2009. He subsequently took over primary maintenance of the + email package from Barry Warsaw, and contributed the unicode oriented API. + David is also active in mentoring new contributors and, when time is + available, working on the infrastructure that supports CPython development, + specifically the Roundup-based bug tracker and the buildbot system. + + David currently does both proprietary and open source developement work, + primarily in Python, through the company in which he is a partner, `Murray & + Walker, Inc `_. He has done contract work + focused specifically on CPython development both through the PSF (the + kickstart of the email unicode API development) and directly funded by + interested corporations (additional development work on email fundeded by + QNX, and work on CPython ICC support funded by Intel). He would like to + spend more of his time on open source work, and is considering starting a + Patreon page to facilitate that.