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<p>Hello Team Thunderbird-Enthusiasts!<br>
<br>
I’d like to give you another update on what we’ve been up to since
May. The exciting news is that our team is expanding, thanks to
your continued support and donations. Please join me in welcoming
the following fine folks:<br>
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Geoff Lankow [:darktrojan] is the first of three developers we
have hired in response to our developer job posting. As a former
contributor for Lightning, Geoff already has experience with the
code base and was able to dive right in. He is working on the
future of Thunderbird add-ons, as well as helping out Jörg with
ensuring the nightly builds are stable.<br>
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Arshad Khan [:arshad] is also from the calendar world. He came to
us as a Google Summer of Code student and worked on a prototype
for porting calendar dialogs to React. Now that he has completed
his degree, we hired him to work on Thunderbird’s front-end. The
main work will be reducing usage of XUL and XBL and moving toward
HTML and Web Components.<br>
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Next up is Ben Campbell [:bcampbell]. While he is new to the
Mozilla world, he knows his way around C++ and has shown some
great skill. He will be working on the platform side of
Thunderbird, for example ironing out remaining bugs in maildir
support.<br>
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We’ve also hired Rob Lemley [:rjl], our new build engineer. He is
here just in time for the Thunderbird 60 release, and will then be
helping us document and improve our build pipeline.<br>
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Additionally, we've increased our community manager Ryan’s hours
to full time, allowing him to be more proactive than reactive.<br>
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Finally, I am happy to announce our new technical manager, Magnus
Melin [:mkmelin]. He has been with the project for over a decade.
He will be managing our team, freeing up council time for other
tasks. In addition he will take up technical tasks as mentioned in
an earlier update.<br>
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At the same time, Jörg [:jorgk] will no longer be working for us
directly. Instead, he was hired by <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.pep.security/">pEp Security</a>, where he will
continue his work as Thunderbird’s code sheriff and developer. We
greatly appreciate pEp’s support and hope to find more companies
willing to sponsor a team member in the future. (If you are
interested in doing this, please get in touch!)<br>
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All of this would not have been possible without the support of
our donors. If you enjoy our work and would like to support our
efforts in the future, why not take a moment to <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://donate.mozilla.org/thunderbird/?frequency=monthly&utm_source=tb-planning-updates&utm_medium=email">set
up a recurring donation</a> right now? Your donations will help
us in our mission to free the inbox!<br>
<br>
-- Philipp, on behalf of the Thunderbird Council<br>
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