Narayan Newton
Wed, 01/09/2008 - 02:46 — Narayan Newton
What is your motivation for being a member of the Drupal Association?:
I have been managing Drupal's servers for a little more than a year and will soon be leaving the Open Source Lab, where Drupal's servers are hosted. I have enjoyed working with the Drupal community and would like to continue assisting with Drupal's infrastructure through becoming an "official" member of the Drupal community.
What are the primary goals you would like to work on?:
I would like to continue working with Gerhard on the Drupal infrastructure, with a focus on their database infrastructure and support. Drupal.org is an interesting test case in scalability and I enjoy assisting in increasing Drupal's ability to handle this type of load.
What strategy will you employ in order to accomplish said goals?:
I would continue my current strategy of attempting to find and work on whatever infrastructure issues are currently deemed important, probably with a focus on the database side of things.
What yearly budget would you need in order to accomplish said goals?:
I have no idea, but I'd guess not much considering I'd see my work as being mostly software/configuration related.
What strengths/experience you have to help you accomplish the goals?:
I have quite a bit of experience with the Drupal server infrastructure, through working at the OSL on building that infrastructure.
How long have you been using Drupal, and how'd you get your start?:
I have been using/working on Drupal for about two years, since I was hired at the Open Source Lab.
Have you made existing community contributions, and if so, what?:
I built, managed, rebuilt, upgraded and tuned Drupal's database infrastructure. In the future, I'd like to actually contribute to Drupal's database handling code itself. I also assisted with the rebuild and management of Drupal's webnodes.
How much time can you invest in your Drupal Association work?:
16-20 hours/month
Apply for Board of Directors membership:
Apply for Permanent Membership only
Statutes:
I have read and understood the Statutes of the Drupal Association. I am prepared to participate by following those statutes.
Comments
+1, from the outside
Someone with very applicable experience who potentially will get more engaged on our specific infrastructure needs WITHOUT necessarily doing a lot of code....seems like a great fit.
In the time that I've "known" you...
...I say "known" because I don't think we've actually met, or had a conversation for longer than 3 lines in IRC, but... ;)
You've always been extremely attentive to our needs, even though they are completely wacky at times, patient, hard-working, and furthermore engaged with the community at every step. People need only head over to the infrastructure list archives to see record of this. :)
Though that's a bummer you won't be with OSL anymore. :( Where are you headed off to?
re: OSL
"Though that's a bummer you won't be with OSL anymore. :( Where are you headed off to?"
No clue :). I am graduating and am currently stuck in the job search muck. Thank you for the kind words as well, its been a pleasure to work with the Drupal community.
Small note
As a small note, I'd be willing to take up the server infrastructure coordinator position on the wishlist. It is likely very close to what I do at the moment.