{"id":6075,"date":"2014-06-05T15:45:42","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T20:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/?p=6075"},"modified":"2014-06-05T15:45:42","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T20:45:42","slug":"6075","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/6075\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Mic Spotlight: Mark Vanderwiel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-6012\" class=\"post\" style=\"color: #535353;\">\n<div class=\"entry\" style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">\n<div id=\"post-5939\" style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\" class=\"lead\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"><em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">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. If you\u2019re interested in being featured, please choose five questions from this\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #bc1518;\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/15UCJeJ1YMlqfrXN8SI_Xsba43ZrT21diW8xI6I35Ls8\/viewform\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">form<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and submit!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mark Vanderwiel has been with IBM Systems &amp; Technology Group for 27+ years. He has worked on development of many projects, most recently with energy management and OpenStack. Currently he&#8217;s working on the OpenStack Chef cookbooks in StackForge as a core contributor. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"><strong>1.\u00a0What new OpenStack projects do you think will have a significant impact on the cloud market in the next year?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">I have been most active in the StackForge OpenStack Chef cookbooks. This set of cookbooks is fairly new and growing at a fast pace.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"><strong>2.\u00a0How did you learn to code? Are you self-taught or did you learn in college? On-the-job?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">I started with assembly on the 6502 (that&#8217;s old school Apple for you young guys), college with green terminals for nice pascal, then at IBM for 15 other languages. Now I focus on python and ruby for my Chef work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"><strong>3.\u00a0Where is your favorite place to code? In the office, at a local coffee shop, in bed?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">In my office, looking out the window at the million dollar backup generator, life is good.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"><strong>4.\u00a0What publications, blogs, mailing lists, etc do you read every day?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">IRC #openstack-chef, #chef<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"><strong>5.\u00a0What drew you to OpenStack?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">The concept of handling cloud infrastructure with open source at first seemed like a wild idea. But after getting involved, it&#8217;s been a very interesting and encouraging experience. There are some great folks working on this.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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