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Twitter at @oscon

Chris Aniszczyk — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 02:10:14 +0000

We love open source at Twitter, we’re a big proponent and user of open source technology, from Ruby to Linux to Java and a variety of Apache projects. I’ll admit that Twitter hasn’t been as open as it can be about things, but I recently joined to help change that. As part of our commitment and effort to share what we’ve been working on with the open source community, some of the flock are appearing at OSCon next week in Portland, Oregon.

Keep an eye out for @raffi, who is giving a keynote on Twitter’s move from Ruby on Rails to the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). You can also hear more in-depth details on the move from Rails to Java in a session with @raffi and @stevej. Feel free to mention us on Twitter if you’d like to connect.

If you love to work on hard problems, open source and want to @jointheflock, track us down to discuss some of the positions we have available:

Feel free to connect with me at @caniszczyk, I’m always up for a frosty beverage to discuss open source or anything you may be interested in at Twitter. I’ll also be out on Tuesday and Wednesday morning before the conference for a run around the downtown Portland waterfront if you’re interested.

I’m going to @JoinTheFlock

Chris Aniszczyk — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:54:54 +0000

I will be leaving Red Hat shortly for a new opportunity. In my opinion, Red Hat is at the forefront of open source and I think they are one of the best open source companies to work for. I enjoyed my time there working with the Eclipse and Fedora communities (I truly respect their open source mission). However, it’s time for me to seek new challenges and stretch myself in greater ways. I’m going to @JoinTheFlock by taking a position to kick-start and manage Twitter’s open source efforts.

Twitter uses a lot of open source code, from Ruby to Scala to many other projects from places like Apache. On top of that, Twitter contributes a bit to open source, checkout there GitHub page for some of Twitter’s work. I’m looking forward to representing Twitter, spreading the open source love and shaping open source policies with Twitter’s engineers and legal team. I have a lot of ideas of what Twitter could do in the open source arena and look forward to sharing those with you in the future.

How will this impact my involvement with the eclipse.org community? Not that much, I plan to remain involved with the eclipse.org community and even other open source communities. I find eclipse.org to be one of the most professional open source communities, I like the friction caused between commercial and open source interests, we are better because of it. Anyways, I look forward to shipping the Eclipse Indigo release with everyone next week and definitely the Juno release next year.

I’ll have more to say soon, if you’re interested you can follow me on Twitter as @caniszczyk.

!@#$%^& Twitter bots…

Chris Aniszczyk — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:42:52 +0000

The Twitter bots know how to get you where it hurts…

And again…

What’s next?

Twitter Bird…

Chris Aniszczyk — Fri, 29 May 2009 22:08:31 +0000

So I was having my espresso-laden coffee this morning at the Whole Foods HQ and what do I see?

For a second, I thought the Twitter bird came to get me because I didn’t update my Twitter status within 24 hours… however, I decided to use this serendipitous moment as inspiration to let everyone know that Eclipse has a burgeoning Twitter community. Furthermore, you can follow the Galileo release on Twitter!

Personally, I was a bit worried that the Twitter bird was going to use my MacBook as a toilet…