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<name> Jay Jay Billings </name> | |
<title> Research Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory </title> | |
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<email>jayjaybillings@gmail.com</email> | |
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Eclipse Integrated Computational Environment Project Lead<br> | |
Eclipse Science Working Group Steering Committee Member | |
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<p>I think that the most amazing thing about Eclipse is the way that it has grown beyond an IDE and now even beyond the RCP. | |
While the establishment of the Working Groups has broadened Eclipse’s reach into new areas such as automotives, science and | |
location technologies to name a few, new projects that make the developer experience even better continue to expand the platform | |
as a whole at an amazing rate. The way I see it, this growth is being driven by one thing: Eclipse’s amazing community.</p> | |
<p>As your committer representative I will strive to serve and help this great community by improving the experience and | |
meeting the needs of all committers, whether they be committers from large projects with big backers or individual committers | |
who are just starting out. For established projects, I will identify the areas where your committers are having the most trouble | |
and help to fix or improve their experience. For committers in new projects, I will help you navigate the sea of processes | |
surrounding contributions, releases, third party content and, perhaps most importantly, get you the help you need as fast | |
as possible when I can not provide it. I will also work with the rest of the board to reach out to the community and clarify | |
many rules and policies that I, as a new committer, and others find to be confusing or limiting. Finally, for everyone, I will | |
tackle the issue of using LGPL licensed software in Eclipse projects, which is the single greatest complaint that I hear | |
from old and new committers, since the restriction of such software slows down progress in established projects and severely | |
dampens growth in the working groups.</p> | |
<p>I believe that community service is important and that it is the only thing that leads to healthy communities. It is | |
clearly the reason why Eclipse has thrived. So, while I am a relatively new committer and project lead - arguably still | |
having a lot to learn about the community myself - I am ready to serve you and I believe that I can help make Eclipse even | |
better as your committer representative.</p> | |
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<p>I am a member of the research staff in the Computer Science Research Group at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in | |
Oak Ridge, TN. I have the privilege of leading the ten person Integrated Computational Environments Team, which | |
focuses on the development of large-scale, next-generation modeling and simulation technologies for the U.S. Department of Energy and | |
other sponsors. I am a founding member of the Eclipse Science Working group as well as Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s | |
representative on its steering committee. I hold the M.S. in theoretical astrophysics from the University of Tennessee and | |
I am currently an Energy Science and Engineering Ph.D. candidate in the University’s Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary | |
Research and Graduate Education. I stopped counting the number of scientific publications I have a few years ago when I | |
realized that I was writing way more code than papers!</p> | |
<p>In my few hours of spare time each week, I enjoy spending time with my wife, family and friends.</p> | |
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Research Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory<br> | |
Ph.D. Candidate, the University of Tennessee | |
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