Add Contributor Highlight: Floor (#315)

Signed-off-by: Floor Drees <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Jaime Silvela <[email protected]>

Author: FloorD

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+---
+title: "Contributor Spotlight: Floor Drees"
+date: 2025-06-26T13:51:43+02:00
+draft: false
+image:
+    url: floor.jpg
+    attribution:
+author: jgonzalez
+tags:
+ - ruby
+ - community
+ - kubernetes
+ - postgresql
+ - open-source
+ - spotlight
+summary: "In a mini-series on this blog we highlight the work of the community.
+  Today we meet Floor Drees, EDB Principal Program Manager, open source advocate, 
+  and newly minted CloudNativePG component owner." 
+---
+
+Building and maintaining an open source project takes a village. In a
+mini-series on this blog we would like to highlight the work of our
+maintainers, component owners, and members of the larger community.
+
+Floor Drees ([floord](https://github.com/floord) on GitHub) is a Principal Program Manager at EDB. 
+She joined the company earlier this year, but has been active in the PostgreSQL 
+community for several years. Day to day she works with, and in the open source 
+community.
+
+"I must have first heard of CloudNativePG when I was still working at an EDB 
+competitor, when they did a research of the different Kubernetes operators 
+available." Since, she's met several of the project's maintainers at events - 
+certainly at KubeCon Europe this April there was a high concentration of them 
+in host city London! These days, Floor gets to work with the project's 
+maintainers directly.
+
+My contributions to the project are mostly in communication and community. 
+I talk to end-users and write about their use case, I find events for us to 
+speak at, and I interview people for this series!
+
+One question we like to ask is: if you had all the time/skills/money in the 
+world, what would you most like to change about CloudNativePG? Floor's answer 
+is this: "I'd like to onboard more contributors to the project and make sure 
+they feel enabled to take on more impactful roles. And also just for everyone 
+to get a chance to meet the other members. I'm trying with the idea of 
+organizing a contributor summit around PGDay Napoli in September, since so 
+many of our maintainers are based in Italy anyway.
+
+What first got Floor into technology was her blog. To bend the WordPress beast 
+to her will, she had to learn just enough PHP to copy and paste code snippets 
+onto her ftp server. She got really into open source when she started learning 
+Rails and Ruby. "I found a mistake in a Rails Girls guide, and when I found a 
+solution a colleague suggested I could fix the guide so that the next person 
+wouldn't get stuck like I did. I could help people that easily? I was hooked!"
+
+Floor has been active in the Rails (Girls) community, in DevOps, as a 
+DevOpsDays Amsterdam organizer and DevOpsDays Core member and Co-chair, 
+and in various open source communities. Most recently, and perhaps notably, 
+in PostgreSQL. Floor is a PostgreSQL Code of Conduct Committee member, 
+Diversity Committee member, and [PGDay Lowlands](https://2025.pgday.nl) organizer.
+Floor isn't new to the Kubernetes ecosystem either. In 2019 she helped organize 
+the first Kubernetes Community Days, in Amsterdam.
+
+Thinking about what she wants to be or do when she grows up, Floor answers: 
+"either I'll run a retreat for tech people in Norway, with lots of animals, 
+or I'll head up an Open Source Program Office somewhere interesting." Or perhaps 
+both?
+ 
+If you wanted to get in touch with Floor, you can find her in the 
+CloudNativePG channels on the CNCF Slack workspace, or on [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/floord.bsky.social), 
+[Mastodon](https://hachyderm.io/@floord), or [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/floordrees/). You can follow the CloudNativePG project on [Bluesky](https://cloudnativepg.bsky.social) and [Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/@CloudNativePG) too! 

content/blog/contributor-highlight-floor-drees/index.md

@@ -12,13 +12,12 @@ tags:
  - kubernetes
  - postgresql
  - open-source
+ - spotlight
 summary: "In a mini-series on this blog we highlight the work of the community.
   Today we meet Francesco Canovai, Senior Software Development Engineer at EDB, 
   and CloudNativePG maintainer." 
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-# Contributor Spotlight: 
-
 Building and maintaining an open source project takes a village. In a
 mini-series on this blog we would like to highlight the work of our
 maintainers, component owners, and members of the larger community.

content/blog/contributor-highlight-francesco-canovai/index.md

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ tags:
  - Kubernetes
  - postgresql
  - open-source
+ - spotlight
 summary: "In a mini-series on this blog we highlight the work of the community.
   Today we meet Marco Nenciarini, one of the original creators of CloudNativePG."
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