# Fran joins the Crystal Team!

**URL:** <https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/fran-joins-the-crystal-team/4363>\
**Category:** Official\
**Created:** [February 15, 2022, 1:39pm UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/fran-joins-the-crystal-team/4363 "2022-02-15T13:39:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![beta-ziliani](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.crystal-lang.org/beta-ziliani/32/1821_2.png) [@beta-ziliani](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/u/beta-ziliani)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2022, 1:39pm UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/fran-joins-the-crystal-team/4363/1 "2022-02-15T13:39:44Z")

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As you know, we’ve kept quite busy, releasing a new version of Crystal every three months, building the much anticipated Crystal interpreter, working towards Windows support.

Today, we want to share with you our latest incorporation to the Crystal Team: Francisco Tarulla (@ftarulla), who’s been at Manas since 2017, and is both an experienced engineer, with a solid background in GIS and mapping tools, and a teacher of Software Architecture at the University of Buenos Aires.

He will be getting involved in the development of the language along with @beta-ziliani and @straight-shoota, as part of Manas’ dedicated Crystal team, and his first steps will be improving the experience for newcomers.

Let’s give Fran a warm welcome!

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**Author:** ![sdogruyol](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.crystal-lang.org/sdogruyol/32/38_2.png) [@sdogruyol](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/u/sdogruyol)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2022, 10:37am UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/fran-joins-the-crystal-team/4363/2 "2022-02-16T10:37:46Z")

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Welcome @ftarulla, it’s great to have you on board 🎉 I’m super happy to see more manpower from Manas, keep up the great work guys 💪

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**Author:** ![mavu](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.crystal-lang.org/mavu/32/213_2.png) [@mavu](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/u/mavu)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2022, 1:37pm UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/fran-joins-the-crystal-team/4363/3 "2022-02-16T13:37:09Z")

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> [@beta-ziliani](#):
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> improving the experience for newcomers.

Very important job! Welcome and much success to you!

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**Author:** ![Bonarc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ab992/32.png) [@Bonarc](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/u/Bonarc)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2022, 9:31pm UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/fran-joins-the-crystal-team/4363/4 "2022-02-16T21:31:06Z")

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> [@beta-ziliani](#):
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> his first steps will be improving the experience for newcomers.

(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ\*:･ﾟ✧

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**Author:** ![paulocoghi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.crystal-lang.org/paulocoghi/32/1429_2.png) [@paulocoghi](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/u/paulocoghi)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2022, 9:52pm UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/fran-joins-the-crystal-team/4363/5 "2022-02-16T21:52:06Z")

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Welcome, @ftarulla ! Great news for the Crystal language and its community!