Inside Infra: Chris Thistlethwaite : The Apache Software Foundation Blog

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Let’s start with you telling us your name --how is it pronounced?It’s “Chris Thistle-wait” --I don’t correct people who say “thistle-th-wait”-- that’s also correct, but our branch of the family doesn’t pronounce the second “th”.What’s your handle if people are trying to find you? I know you’re "christ" (pronounced "Chris T") on the internal ASF Slack channel.Yeah --anything ASF-related is all under "christ".Do people call you "Christ"?They do! I first started in IT around Christmastime and was doing desktop support and office-type IT. When people started putting in tickets, and my username  was "christ" there, they were asking "why was Christ logging into my computer right now?" and it became a thing. When I was hired at the ASF I told Greg (Stein; ASF Infrastructure Administrator) about that story, he said "you gotta go with that for your Apache username."When and how did you get involved with the ASF?A long time ago I started getting into Linux and Open Source, and natu…