Thanks once more to Symmetry Investments, we have a new paid staffer in the D Language Foundation family.

Though I call him my "assistant", I can already see he will be more than that. He'll be taking some things off my shoulders, sure, but he also has ideas of his own to bring into the mix. Adding him to the team is certain to be a boon for the D community.

So, a word of warning to those of you who haven't heard from me in a while pestering you for blog posts: get used to the name "Max Haughton".

And congratulate him while you're at it!

On Monday, 18 January 2021 at 09:21:45 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> Thanks once more to Symmetry Investments, we have a new paid staffer in the D Language Foundation family.
>
> Though I call him my "assistant", I can already see he will be more than that. He'll be taking some things off my shoulders, sure, but he also has ideas of his own to bring into the mix. Adding him to the team is certain to be a boon for the D community.
>
> So, a word of warning to those of you who haven't heard from me in a while pestering you for blog posts: get used to the name "Max Haughton".
>
> And congratulate him while you're at it!

Welcome aboard Max! Let's make 2021 the year when D shines :)

(Also, general question:
Will the PR guys and Max be on Discord or Slack or will it be too much for them?)

Anyway, welcome 🎂

On Monday, 18 January 2021 at 09:32:06 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
> On Monday, 18 January 2021 at 09:21:45 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Welcome aboard Max! Let's make 2021 the year when D shines :)
>
> (Also, general question:
> Will the PR guys and Max be on Discord or Slack or will it be too much for them?)
>
> Anyway, welcome 🎂

Great development in the D camp, indeed. It's great for a steady focused work on the language.

Is this (and the related PR people) a short-term initiative, or is the funding secured for a longer period?

On Monday, 18 January 2021 at 09:32:06 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:

>>
> (Also, general question:
> Will the PR guys and Max be on Discord or Slack or will it be too much for them?)
>

That's up to them, but I guess Max probably will be.

On Monday, 18 January 2021 at 13:08:58 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On Monday, 18 January 2021 at 09:32:06 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
>
>>>
>> (Also, general question:
>> Will the PR guys and Max be on Discord or Slack or will it be too much for them?)
>>
>
> That's up to them, but I guess Max probably will be.

I should clarify that I was referring to Discord. They're on Slack already.

On Monday, 18 January 2021 at 09:49:10 UTC, M.M. wrote:

>
> Is this (and the related PR people) a short-term initiative, or is the funding secured for a longer period?

As far as I know this is long term.

On Monday, 18 January 2021 at 09:32:06 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
> On Monday, 18 January 2021 at 09:21:45 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>> Thanks once more to Symmetry Investments, we have a new paid staffer in the D Language Foundation family.
>>
>> Though I call him my "assistant", I can already see he will be more than that. He'll be taking some things off my shoulders, sure, but he also has ideas of his own to bring into the mix. Adding him to the team is certain to be a boon for the D community.
>>
>> So, a word of warning to those of you who haven't heard from me in a while pestering you for blog posts: get used to the name "Max Haughton".
>>
>> And congratulate him while you're at it!
>
> Welcome aboard Max! Let's make 2021 the year when D shines :)
>
> (Also, general question:
> Will the PR guys and Max be on Discord or Slack or will it be too much for them?)
>
> Anyway, welcome 🎂

I am on slack under my real name (IIRC) and I can found on the discord under the name "mhh__"

Feel free to ping me on either although there may be some latency because the notifications are completely broken on my phone.

On Monday, 18 January 2021 at 09:21:45 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> Thanks once more to Symmetry Investments, we have a new paid staffer in the D Language Foundation family.
>
> Though I call him my "assistant", I can already see he will be more than that. He'll be taking some things off my shoulders, sure, but he also has ideas of his own to bring into the mix. Adding him to the team is certain to be a boon for the D community.
>
> So, a word of warning to those of you who haven't heard from me in a while pestering you for blog posts: get used to the name "Max Haughton".
>
> And congratulate him while you're at it!

What is the tasks of this new "assistant"?

On Monday, 18 January 2021 at 22:33:43 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
> On Monday, 18 January 2021 at 09:21:45 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>> Thanks once more to Symmetry Investments, we have a new paid staffer in the D Language Foundation family.
>>
>> Though I call him my "assistant", I can already see he will be more than that. He'll be taking some things off my shoulders, sure, but he also has ideas of his own to bring into the mix. Adding him to the team is certain to be a boon for the D community.
>>
>> So, a word of warning to those of you who haven't heard from me in a while pestering you for blog posts: get used to the name "Max Haughton".
>>
>> And congratulate him while you're at it!
>
> What is the tasks of this new "assistant"?

It's looking like the things I'll be doing can be split under two major categories - the first is "just" generally doing whatever Mike needs doing (He's a busy man), and some more autonomous things like scouting for the blog. The second category is a bit looser, as there are some things I'd like to do that come under the community relations remit that aren't as structured - e.g. I am very interested in getting a proper working group together to try and iterate through designs properly rather than incremental DIPs.

On Tuesday, 19 January 2021 at 00:12:49 UTC, Max Haughton wrote:
> On Monday, 18 January 2021 at 22:33:43 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
>> On Monday, 18 January 2021 at 09:21:45 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> What is the tasks of this new "assistant"?
>
> It's looking like the things I'll be doing can be split under two major categories - the first is "just" generally doing whatever Mike needs doing (He's a busy man), and some more autonomous things like scouting for the blog. The second category is a bit looser, as there are some things I'd like to do that come under the community relations remit that aren't as structured - e.g. I am very interested in getting a proper working group together to try and iterate through designs properly rather than incremental DIPs.

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