LeilaPearson Would Like to Check-in

Who am I?

I'm an Electrical Engineer who has been working primarily as an embedded software developer, development manager, and QA manager for the last 15 years.

What do I want?

write access to SVN for the following branches:

Core

wikiplugins

What can I do?

My programming background is mainly C & C++ in embedded systems, but I administered a TWiki site for about 4 years at a previous company, I've just installed a Foswiki site at my new company (upgrading from a 6 year old TWiki site), and would say my Perl is "not bad" at this stage (still learning all the time).

I did reasonably extensive updates to the XpTrackerPlugin at my last company - which I unfortunately didn't contribute back and don't have now that I'm at a new company, so I'm pretty familiar with how Plugins and the wiki core are structured, and how to get things done.

Why do I want to do it?

I like to learn things and dabble. Administering Foswiki, and enhancing it, give me the opportunity to improve my skills in Linux, Perl, Apache, Javascript, and CSS.

I actually enjoy finding and fixing bugs - and don't have a huge amount of spare time to develop stuff from scratch, so I see myself mainly helping to improve things that are already mostly there (and are things that we run into at our own Foswiki site here).

In general, I like to help people and do useful stuff. The Foswiki Community seems like a good place to do both. I'm also a huge fan of wikis for collaboration and information sharing, and Foswiki is undoubtedly one of the best.

Other Notes

Topics I have contributed to

Topic	Last Modified	Last Editor
Tasks.WebNotify	13 Feb 2012 - 12:00	Main.unknown
Development.WebNotify	05 Feb 2012 - 22:53	JayenAshar
Tasks.Item10668	28 Jan 2012 - 06:32	JayenAshar
Tasks.Item2516	05 Jan 2012 - 13:33	CrawfordCurrie
Development.ShipCommonlyTailoredTopicsInConfigure	01 Jan 2012 - 21:44	GeorgeClark
Development.UseSyntaxToChangeEvaluationOrder	30 Dec 2011 - 21:41	MichaelDaum
Extensions.SearchSummaryPlugin	06 Oct 2011 - 15:10	SreekanthNemani
Development.SubversionBasedInstall	28 Apr 2011 - 00:34	LeilaPearson
Tasks.Item8192	26 Apr 2011 - 11:51	KevinKaiser
Tasks.Item9662	31 Mar 2011 - 17:36	LeilaPearson
Tasks.Item9656	19 Mar 2011 - 09:10	MichaelDaum
Tasks.Item9755	27 Jan 2011 - 03:10	LynnwoodBrown
Development.NumbersAsUpperCase	07 Dec 2010 - 08:11	KennethLavrsen
Tasks.Item1187	04 Nov 2010 - 00:17	KennethLavrsen
Community.WysiwygTaskTeam	30 Oct 2010 - 11:20	PaulHarvey
Development.TranscludeEarlier	02 Oct 2010 - 14:19	LeilaPearson
Development.RegisterSectionTagHandler	28 Sep 2010 - 07:26	CrawfordCurrie
Tasks.Item9734	22 Sep 2010 - 05:27	LeilaPearson
Development.DefineOtherMacroExpansionTypes	17 Sep 2010 - 01:39	SvenDowideit
Tasks.Item8790	15 Sep 2010 - 21:08	ArthurClemens
Tasks.Item9299	01 Sep 2010 - 11:28	DrakeDiedrich
Tasks.Item9450	12 Aug 2010 - 01:20	GeorgeClark
Extensions.DebianPackage	10 Jul 2010 - 12:34	LeilaPearson
Community.WebStatistics2010	12 Apr 2009 - 15:43	ProjectContributor
Development.WebStatistics2010	12 Apr 2009 - 15:43	ProjectContributor
Extensions.WebStatistics2010	12 Apr 2009 - 15:43	ProjectContributor

Questions and Comments

Hello and welcome Leila - we look forward to seeing your commits

-- SvenDowideit - 04 Sep 2010