# Distribution Package Maintainers Introductions **URL:** \ **Category:** Project Discussions\ **Tags:** distro-packaging\ **Created:** [September 18, 2023, 8:45pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/distribution-package-maintainers-introductions/901 "2023-09-18T20:45:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![rfc2549](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/rfc2549/32/197_2.png) [@rfc2549](https://forum.ansible.com/u/rfc2549)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 1:28am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/distribution-package-maintainers-introductions/901/5 "2023-09-20T01:28:47Z")
Hello, For brevity, my introduction is in that other thread: > [@Introduce yourself!](http://forum.ansible.com/t/introduce-yourself/15/23): > > o/ I’m David and I greet you from Montreal in Canada where I do open source things between dev ops and dad ops nowadays. I’ve been using Ansible and contributing to the community in different ways since at least 2014, as far back as version 1.8 or so. I think simplicity is a feature and coming from Puppet, it was a breath of fresh air slight_smile I eventually authored [ARA Records Ansible](https://github.com/ansible-community/ara) to make my own life easier dealing with millions of playbooks across thousands of hosts back in the Ope… I was otherwise formerly in the Ansible community team and did things like shipping the `ansible` package to PyPI and helping with [Fedora’s transition from Ansible 2.9](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Ansible5), amongst other things. Nowadays I help with the packaging and maintenance of various Ansible things. Happy to be a member of the group if you will have me 🙂 --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.ansible.com/t/distribution-package-maintainers-introductions/901)._