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Navigation index sitemap | BitDance » BitDance¶Making the Bits DanceThis is the personal web presence of R. David Murray. I’ve had this domainsince December of 1993, when I started working as the technical lead creating anon-profit ISP in southwestern New Hampshire, back when the World Wide Web wasjust beginning to get graphical. I ran the servers and programmed the websites as dialup grew and then as it died. Released from bondage to both thepager and the boss by the dissolution of the third ISP for which I wastechnical director (I left the first to be partner in the second which we soldto the third), I became an independent consultant in 2005.I’ve always loved Open Source, from before anyone knew what it was. I learnedcomputing working on IBM mainframes at the University of Pennsylvania PhysicsDepartment Computing Facility, and although the mainframe OS was proprietary,we had the source, and there was a thriving community that hacked on it. Imade the transition to Unix along with the Physicists, and latched on toBSDOS/FreeBSD when I needed an OS to run that New Hampshire ISP. When Linuxmatured, I switched to it.I found Python in 1993 as well, using it for all sorts of automation tasksfor the ISP, and even wrote an accounting system in it. Later I used itfor web development. My first Open Source contributions were to the Zope3project back when it was just getting started.In 2008 I started contributing directly to the Python language, becoming a corecontributor the next year at PyCon. Before long I wound up becoming the newmaintainer of the Python Email package, which has been my major area ofcontribution since, though I also make an effort to try to check in standardlibrary patches prepared by non-committers.As a consultant, I do IT support work and contract programming, both throughthe company in which I am a partner, Murray and Walker, Inc.As an Open Source contributor, I work primarily on the Python Standard Libraryin general and the Email package in particular. But I have other projectsas well, some of which have made it as far as getting posted at mygithub account.If you want to support my Open Source work (and nothing would please me morethan to be able to contribute all the code I write to the world), youcan do so via gittip. Topics Home Projects Blog (RSS) Show Source Navigation index sitemap | BitDance » © Copyright 2009, R. David Murray. Last updated on 2013-12-11. Created using Sphinx 1.1.3.