Upcoming is the elections for the new Trustee’s and spyderous made a interesting comment to me about becoming one. The problem is that I will only have been a developer for 6 months when they begin and well, that’s not nearly long enough to be considered. As well I won’t be able to vote either as I’m too young. Though that has never stopped high school kids from drinking or smoking. Maybe I can find a way to stuff the ballot *grin*. What actually came about out of the talk was committee’s and the possibility of actually creating one so that if nothing else if I feel up to it I can help out with stuff, like say the quarterly reports that as a non profit we need to get out. That should be coming out this weekend as I poked Grant about it, like i did with Corey before him. Gotta keep on the up and up with that stuff.

Tonight was a bit odd, as it seems that the first thing people who’ve I’ve poked about something previously come up and I say hi, they update me about the status of what I had poked about. Now I’m not sure if this is a good thing or not, I might just decide to get a complex about it and not ask anything. I’m sure that’d make a couple of the trustee’s happy *wink*

Additionally I picked up a bit of responsibility as well recently. As anyone who has hung out in the x86 channel might of noticed, I tend to take a leading role  in helping people who want to help into the Arch Testers group for our little x86 project, and as such I’ve stepped up, been tossed into, thrown to the wolves or any other saying you want to use been bumped to being the main contact for the x86 Arch Testers. It’ll be interesting as I enjoy seeing the dedication of the users and hopefully that dedication of helping out will turn into hopefully more developers down the road. If the x86 teams at program turns out half as successful as the amd64 teams has for new developers, we’ll have a fresh injection of mountain dew into the dev stream *grin*

It still till this day strikes me as entirely odd, that when I joined I had talked about being a minor developer who did a bit here and a bit there and just sort of hid in the background. I’ve somehow managed to at least it appears to me have gone the entirely opposite direction and get poked quite a bit for help with various things. I’m also enjoying it pretty much as much as I did before. I just don’t try to put up with the politics that seem to happen, but still remain the person who is approachable. I guess the main point is that I’m here, I’m staying, and i want time to work on my own projects! help!

Oh and yes people wanting to help the x86 can feel free  to come poke me now more then ever. I’m just asking for trouble with that statement.