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My personal favorite example: http://sachachua.com/blog/ http://sachachua.com/blog/ She wrote org-mode for Emacs. Now she is at IBM Research.
by dschiptsov 14y ago
My personal favorite example:
http://sachachua.com/blog/ http://sachachua.com/blog/
She wrote org-mode for Emacs. Now she is at IBM Research.
- sjm 14y agoCarsten Dominik wrote org-mode. Looks like she maintained Remember-mode and Planner-mode at one point though.
- dschiptsov 14y agoMy fault - I remember that she wrote a popular Emacs package, but forgot the name.
- lurker14 14y agoMaintained, not wrote. John Wiegley wrote both. http://www.emacswiki.org/PlannerMode http://www.emacswiki.org/PlannerMode It is cool that Sacha maintained it, volunteering is awesome. I am pointing this correction out because Sacha's primary career is as a self-promotion specialist (http://sachachua.com/blog/ http://sachachua.com/blog/), so I have to be skeptical of how her name gets attached to technical work, more so than someone who doesn't pursue celebrity for profit. People shouldn't think that it's so easy to be famous and a technical contributor. The larger contributors (like John Wiegley in this case) tend to be less famous. Example: Sure, Linus Torvalds is a celebrity and massive contrbutor, but there are dozens (hundreds?) of other massive Linux kernel contributors who are less famous than, say, Jeff Atwood.
- lurker14 14y agoWow, she is such an happy-happy-joy-joy blogger^evangelist^blogger that I never though she had time to write any code.