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<p>Hello TB Planning List,</p>
<p>It was raised during the Thunderbird Council elections that we
haven't publicly spoken much about who is working on the
Thunderbird project as staff, and what they are doing. Part of
this is due to the fact that we grew very quickly at the end of
the year and what people are working on today is unlikely to be
what they are working on in the future (see de-XBL stuff below).</p>
<p>Below is a high level look at who our staff are and what they are
doing (I've listed their nick where I have not been given express
permission by them to share their name):<br>
</p>
<ul>
<li><b>Alessandro Castellani (:aleca) - Lead UX Architect</b> -
Doing some de-XBL and other UX bugs to get his feet wet. UX of
OTR chats. Helping with website redesign.<br>
</li>
<li><b>(:sancus) - Infrastructure Engineer</b> - Manages ATN and
Thunderbird project infrastructure. Keeps us online.<br>
</li>
<li><b>(:arshad) - Front-end developer</b> - Focused on de-XBL
work.<b><br>
</b><b> </b></li>
<li><b>(:bcampbell) - Platform Developer</b> - Backend engineer,
currently removing RDF usage. <br>
</li>
<li><b>(:darktrojan) - Backend Developer</b> - WebExtension APIs,
fixing bugs and cleanup.<br>
</li>
<li><b>Jörg K (:jorgk) - Code Manager</b> (hired by PEP) - Bustage
fixing and releases.<br>
</li>
<li><b>(:KaiE)</b> - <b>Security Engineer</b> - encryption and
security: at the moment implementing OTR for chats.<br>
</li>
<li><b>(:Khushil324) - Developer</b> - de-XBL and other code
modernization.</li>
<li><b>Magnus Melin (:mkmelin) - Technical Manager</b> - <span
class="background-details"><span class="lt-line-clamp__line">Coordinate
efforts of technical staff. Technical planning and
implementation.<br>
</span></span></li>
<li><b>Paul Morris (:pmorris) - Developer</b> - de-XBL, just
started (planned to do calendar code modernization).<br>
</li>
<li><b>(:rjl) - Build Engineer</b> - handles keeping up with the
build and release related changes coming from mozilla-central.<br>
</li>
<li><b>Ryan Sipes (:ryanleesipes) - Community Manager</b> -
Sharing stuff like this, PR, documentation, and generally
helping lower the barrier for folks to contribute to
Thunderbird.</li>
</ul>
<p>Like I said, many of these people are new(ish) - so if you
haven't interacted with them much yet, it's likely because they
are still getting onboarded. As I said above, this might not cover
everything that these folks are working on, but generally this is
what they are currently focused on.</p>
<p>I hope this is helpful and encouraging to all of you, please feel
free to let me know your questions and concerns.<br>
</p>
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Ryan Sipes
Community Manager
Thunderbird</pre>
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