Core Contributor Nomination: Emad Rad

[kmccormick (Kyle McCormick)]

Hello, I’m excited to nominate @Emad to be a Coding Core Contributor and Maintainer for the Open edX project!

Emad is an engineer at edSPIRIT. He has contributed regularly for over two years, including:

• adding Persian language support to over a dozen repos, e.g.: Persian language by CodeWithEmad · Pull Request #246 · openedx/frontend-app-ora-grading · GitHub
• squashing warnings in GitHub workflows across dozens of repos, e.g.: fix: pypi-publish master branch sunset by CodeWithEmad · Pull Request #261 · openedx/edx-when · GitHub
• finding and fixing documentation issues in various repos, e.g.: fix: cleanup by CodeWithEmad · Pull Request #775 · openedx/XBlock · GitHub
• providing help and expertise on the forums, e.g.: Enable CORS in tutor AWS AMI

Additionally, over in the Tutor project, Emad has been an active contributor for the past three years, notably:

• maintaining cookiecutter-tutor-plugin
• frequenting the Tutor Users’ Group (and the DevX working group before that)
• reporting and fixing core Tutor issues, e.g.: root command in "openedx-dockerfile" patch triggers "permission denied" · Issue #597 · overhangio/tutor · GitHub
• jumping headfirst into otherwise-stalled issues, taking ownership of them, and enthusiastically collaborating until they are fixed, e.g.: Preview mode breaks in Maple if PREVIEW_LMS_HOST is not a subdomain of LMS_HOST · Issue #557 · overhangio/tutor · GitHub

Given Emad’s experience making changes across the Open edX ecosystem, I think he is well-suited to help maintain some of our currently-unmaintained repos. In particular, I would like to nominate him for write access to and maintainership of the following four repos:

• GitHub - openedx/openedx-chem
• GitHub - openedx/frontend-app-ora-grading: Open Response Assessment - Enhanced Staff Grader - Allows graders to easily review, evaluate and grade ORAs
• GitHub - openedx/olxcleaner: Tool for checking edX courses for errors and creating content reports
• GitHub - openedx/acid-block: An XBlock for testing XBlock Runtimes

The comment period will last until 05 September (2.5 weeks). For this to pass, Emad needs 5 positive votes and no unaddressed concerns.

[Michelle_Philbrick]

I’m not a coder, but I’ve seen how much value Emad adds to the community via his contributions. I think having him be able to maintain those repos would be a huge win!

[jill (Jillian Vogel)]

agree, @Emad will make an excellent core contributor. Thank you for volunteering to maintain these repos!

[jyliugithub (Cecilia_edSPIRIT)]

Emad as the core Open edX developer inside our company, he definitely deserves the honour of becoming a core contributor. You got my vote, Emad.

[sarina (Sarina Canelake)]

- I have reviewed some of Emad’s contributions and it is great working with him.

[gabrieldamours (Gabriel D'Amours (OpenCraft) - opencraft.com/help)]

I also give my to Emad’s nomination!

[feanil (Feanil Patel)]

from me as well on this. Emad has done a great job contributing across many different parts of the Open edX ecosystem.

[Felipe (Felipe Montoya)]

I vote yes to this nomination. I think Emad is a very good example of a contributor with Caliber, Conduct and Commitment.

[ndespujol (Nacho Despujol)]

Given the impressive work of Emad I vote yes.

[Syed_Muhammad_Dawoud (Syed Muhammad Dawoud Sheraz Ali)]

It’s a huge from my side. Emad has been an active contributor to Tutor codebase. He regularly picks up interesting issues from the backlog, creates new tickets for the issues he finds (and then fixes them himself ), starts the discussion on improving certain processes, and much more. He will be a great addition to Open edX CC community.

[chintan (Chintan Joshi)]

+1 great work

[feanil (Feanil Patel)]

It looks like with sufficient positive votes and no negative votes this nomination is accepted!

Thanks @Emad for taking this on. The next step is for you to follow the instructions here to get yourself on-boarded!

[Emad (edSPIRIT)]

Awesome! Thanks, everyone.
I’ll start the on boarding process in the coming days.