[OGDev] New OG dev personal introduction.

[Daniel Packer]

Dear Kake and friends,

I'm excited to be working with the OpenGuides source code for a new 
application I'm developing with Michael Heimbinder (see 
http://www.habitatmap.org). Thanks for the warm welcome, and as soon as 
I get my own environment up and running, you'll start to hear more from 
me. I think the team is fantastic and that's why I thought OG was a 
great choice.

As for my background, I've been using Perl professionally for ten years 
with a focus on content management and database driven web applications, 
so I'm fairly comfortable with the technology being used. I'm also a 
system administrator. Through my company, X To Infinity, I work on a 
wide variety of projects by myself and with subcontractors, and I am 
working to emphasize socially progressive, not for profit, and 
grassroots work, as I find this work very rewarding and meaningful. For 
fun I bake vegan cookies, ride my bicycle all over the place, go 
jogging, play my guitar and sing badly, write articles for local papers, 
and volunteer.

I may even try to make my own vegan/vegetarian resource with OpenGuides 
if I have the time. First things first though, I struggled with various 
installation issues yesterday, and my goal today is to get up and 
running and detail my installation woes/insights.

Some topics that will likely come up in the near future relating to the 
habitatmap project are: extending access controls, single sign on (Open 
ID - LDAP - ?), performance benchmarking, cobranding the look and feel 
(so that one site can take on many different skins), spam/abuse control, 
forum integration, and google maps integration.

-Daniel

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Daniel Packer, Principal
X To Infinity, LLC
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New York, NY 10002
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