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Hanging my volunteer gloves and moving to a new phase of my life

Posted August 18, 2020 at 18:10 by wyldckat
Updated August 19, 2020 at 07:47 by wyldckat

TL;DR: As of 2020, I can only help during office hours, at work, if paid and/or affects our projects, namely what we use in OpenFOAM itself and blueCFD-Core.

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So nearly 2 years after my blog post Why I contribute to the OpenFOAM forum(s), wiki(s) and the public community, I'm writing this blog post you are reading now.

My last 3 thread posts at the forums in CFD-Online this year, were on May 7th, February 27th and January 20th. And before that, it was 10...
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A few thoughts about today's CPU era...

Posted January 6, 2019 at 16:44 by wyldckat

So for whatever reason I went on a nostalgic thought process an hour or so ago and began reading about:
The nostalgic reason for this was that I had briefly gotten a chance to work with a couple of Intel Phi Co-processors a couple of years ago and never got the time...
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Why I contribute to the OpenFOAM forum(s), wiki(s) and the public community

Posted August 24, 2018 at 18:07 by wyldckat
Updated August 25, 2018 at 07:50 by wyldckat

Here is the TL;DR bullet list:
  1. To help others (and possibly gain IRL Karma points).
  2. To train/gain/increase/improve my experience, knowledge, patience and user support skills, in a way that no PhD or academic course could ever do.
  3. To feel accomplished, in a way similar to playing video games:
    • If I can do this task, I can do other tasks as well. If not at the moment, I'll try and try again until I can overcome this (semi-artificial) hurdle.
And if you can find the time and are willing to do...
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Open/Public answer to a recent blog post at LinkedIn

Posted July 14, 2018 at 09:03 by wyldckat

This blog post provides a complete answer to Tobias Holzmann's following post at LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update...72321633218560

This is because LinkedIn has a limited number of characters per comment and it required me to login in order to read the complete post... so I guess it's better that I answer here instead.

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Hi Tobi and greetings to all!

Since you mentioned me here, I guess I have to answer here as...
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11th community OpenFOAM Workshop: finally managed to attend one of these! Part 3

Posted July 3, 2016 at 13:43 by wyldckat

This is the third part of a long blog post, see the first part here and the second here.

On the 30th:
  • I arrived at around 08h10, had to meet+talk with Miguel Nóbrega to see how the clinics sessions were going to be organized.
  • The first (and only) lecture was given by Fred Mendonça, with the title "Custodians of OpenFOAM®".
    • He told us about his career experience. In a nutshell: a lot of experience, both CFD and business/management!
    • Told us and showed us a map
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