Hi everyone!
I'm Hisham and I maintain LuaRocks. I'm currently based in Rio de Janeiro. I ran the Lua birds-of-a-feather meeting in FOSDEM 2015 and organized the first Lua devroom in FOSDEM 2016 with Pierre.
I'm very happy to see a "calendar of Lua events" taking shape. For many years we only had the Workshop. I feel this mailing list can be really helpful!
Speaking of community initiatives, I've been a Google Summer of Code
mentor for LabLua (PUC-Rio) twice and the LuaRocks team just applied to have
luarocks.org as a
mentoring organization in GSoC this year, so hopefully we'll get more
community involvement if its gets accepted. This year, I couldn't make it to FOSDEM but Google had some extra funding for sending GSoC students to events and I secured funding to get my
-- Hisham