Geoff St. Pierre is not only a member of the security team and a core committer to the Backdrop Project but he is also the lead singer and guitarist with "The Understatements" and father to a family of talented musicians.
When I was first approached about being a Backdrop CMS core committer, I was both humbled and more than a little scared. I'm extremely grateful to the PMC for having the confidence in me to offer me this role in the community, but the amount of responsibility they were handing over made me a bit hesitant. Could I do this? What if I made mistakes? What did they expect of me time-wise? This article aims to pull back the curtain and show how easy (and rewarding) it is to be a Backdrop core committer.
