{"id":5071,"date":"2013-09-05T11:15:25","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T16:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/?p=5071"},"modified":"2013-09-04T13:47:21","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T18:47:21","slug":"open-mic-spotlight-julien-danjou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/open-mic-spotlight-julien-danjou\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Mic Spotlight: Julien Danjou"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"JulienDanjou\"<\/a>This post is part of the OpenStack Open Mic series to spotlight the people who have helped make OpenStack successful. Each week, a new contributor will step up to the mic and answer five questions about OpenStack, cloud, careers and what they do for fun.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Julien is a Free Software hacker working as a independent consultant. He’s the\u00a0Project Technical Leader for OpenStack Ceilometer, and a member of Oslo\u00a0core. He also contributes to other free software projects, like Debian and GNU Emacs, regularly. You can follow him on Twitter @juldanjou<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

1. What is your go-to beverage or snack while coding?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Coffee, without surprise, especially in the morning. However, I can’t\u00a0drink coffee during my late evening coding sessions, for obvious reasons\u00a0(I do need to sleep), so I enjoy scotch whisky once in a while.<\/p>\n

\u00a02. What behavior has helped get you the furthest as a developer?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think being pragmatic most of the time helps a lot. It’s very hard to\u00a0keep this in sight, as I, like many developers I guess, do have a\u00a0tendency towards building some sort or perfect systems. But you have to\u00a0make compromises all the time, and being ready to do so every day helps\u00a0a lot building successful communities and projects.\u00a0Also when dealing with open source projects, being humble and diplomatic\u00a0is also a key to get your contributions accepted. You have to remember\u00a0that you’re entering a zone where people don’t owe you anything and may\u00a0be smarter than you.<\/p>\n

3. What is your favorite project that you’ve contributed code to?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think that it’s the on I use the most (I’m typing this in it), and\u00a0it’s GNU Emacs. I do a lot of things with Emacs, coding obviously,\u00a0reading and writing my mails, chatting on IRC, etc. It’s a really\u00a0powerful tool for developers, and is easy to leverage to help in you in\u00a0any tasks. And it got me into Lisp, a fabulous programming language, I’m\u00a0thankful for that!<\/p>\n

4. Have you organized an OpenStack meet-up\/event or spoken about OpenStack\u00a0at an event? What did you learn? What was the best part?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I spoke at a couple of events, and it was really great. I think the best\u00a0part is getting feedback from users on what you built. This is really\u00a0rewarding at a personal level, and valuable at a product level. That\u00a0way, you know that you’re on the right track, or not.<\/p>\n

5. Where’s your favorite place to code? In the office, at a local coffee shop? In bed?<\/strong><\/p>\n

This isn’t going to be original, but I do like to code at my desk at\u00a0home. I find it hard to work in corporate offices most of the time, due\u00a0to the noise, people going in and out, etc. I do prefer quiet and calm\u00a0places so I can concentrate.\u00a0Though I experienced doing OpenStack code reviews from a deckchair in\u00a0the garden this summer, and it’s definitely something that I’ll have to\u00a0try again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post is part of the OpenStack Open Mic series to spotlight the people who have helped make OpenStack successful. Each week, a new contributor will step up to the mic and answer five questions about OpenStack, cloud, careers and what they do for fun.\u00a0 Julien is a Free Software hacker working as a independent… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[474],"tags":[465],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5071"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5077,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5071\/revisions\/5077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}