So, Wolf effectively doubles the size of the core team. Now What?īelieve it or not, for many years K-9 Mail had one full-time developer (in addition to a community of contributors). “ The Thunderbird Android Team Just Doubled In Size. (So we developed the software and then prepared it to be open source, because the code was readable, but people couldn’t contribute.) And over that time I fall in love with developing open source, so I was looking for opportunities to to follow up on that direction. “In my last position, my task was to build up open source software. “I’m a longtime Thunderbird user, and I have used K-9 Mail from 2010 on,” Wolf says. “I fell in love with PHP because it had one of the first editors with code completion, and that was awesome.” What Attracted Wolf To The Thunderbird Project? “I used to develop web pages, especially for my school to build up like a little forum,” he says. Wolf’s fascination with games eventually led to some basic programming knowledge and web page development. I think one partition was maximum 3MB! It was a big achievement if something just was running.” Super slow, super loud! And I hacked around a lot to get games running too, to free up memory, to free up disk space because this was super limited. “I think I started my computer journey with playing games - the first I remember is Sid Meier’s Pirates!” Wolf remembers. I love a great origin story, and many people working in technology seem to have one that’s directly tied to their first computer. Meet The Team: Alex Castellani, Product Design ManagerCatch up on the “Meet The Team” series by reading my conversation with Alex Castellani Wolf’s Technology Origin Story
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