Well hello there. I'm delighted to discover steemit - remarkably I proposed just such a blockchain-based system to colleagues back in 2014.
I've been in the computer industry for over 40 years and I've worked at a bunch of big companies. More recently, I was in charge of open source software at Sun Microsystems and supervised the open-sourcing of Java, Solaris and the rest of Sun's software just in time to save some of it from Oracle.
Since then I have been volunteering as a director at the Open Source Initiative (OSI - where I was president for three years too) and at The Document Foundation (who make LibreOffice) and at the UK's Open Rights Group, while freelancing both as a writer (especially at InfoWorld but also at ComputerWorld and for Linux Magazine) and as a management consultant. It's hard to get paid for writing and consulting around open source, so I experimented with alternatives like Patreon and BitCoin.
I'll post things I think this community will find interesting and hope you all agree! Thanks for having me!
(I was surprised to find my picture on the check-in decor at JavaOne in 2009!)
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Welcome - I'm a newbie too :) Sure you are gonna rock it here on steemit.
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Thanks! I appreciate the encouragement.
Hi there, welcome to the community. You have an impressive set of skills. You can be an asset in the platform. An asset that will be greatly rewarded.
Many thanks! It's always hard to get started in a new community so I appreciate the comment.
With the knowledge that you have, things around steemit will be much easier for you :)
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STOP@webmink Welcome to Steemit! I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. I have followed you. Please follow me back @molsen88! Take care!
Welcome and Thank You for being with us!! Following your Blog now
Hello and welcome to Steem! :-) Followed. Follow me back 😘
Thanks, and thanks for the tips!