Developer's black hole
Hi. I’m Flavio Percoco (a.k.a flaper87), and I’m a Software Engineer at Red Hat, where I spend my days working on OpenStack, speaking at conferences. In my spare time I contribute to Rust, write, read, surf, travel, smoke my coffee and drink my pipe.
So, you're an ATC. Let me tell you something
You may be probably wondering what the heck is wrong with me. If you haven't, please, keep reading. If you have, though, please, keep reading.
It's that time of the cycle - ha! you saw this comming, didn't you? -, in OpenStack, when we need to elect new members for the Technical …
Let me tell you something about being a PTL
It's that time of the cycle, in OpenStack, when projects need to elect who's going to be the PTL for the next 6 months. People look at the, hopefully many, candidacies and vote based on the proposals that are more sound to them. I believe, for the PTL elections, the …
Mentoring others and yourself
Mentoring is one of the things I enjoy the most doing. I don't consider myself the ultimate expert on things but I've definitely gone through enough things that had led me to become a mentor on different technical areas.
The reason I enjoy this process so much is because it …
Jerks are deprecated, be nice
I've been wanting to write about this topic and this seems like the right moment to do it. This post is not a follow-up of recent discussions in the KML, it is more about my personal experience and the fact that people are sick of jerks and the damage they …
Open Source owes you everything and nothing
So, I might not be a community manager nor have a community background but, I'm definitely part of many communities and the ones I spend most time on, are about software.
Being part of those communities is something that has always brought me happiness and frustration but, besides of what …