Announce full-time hiring of Victor.

Author: ColinFinck

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+title:       "Victor Perevertkin hired full-time to work on the storage stack"
+author:      "Colin Finck"
+date:        2020-07-14
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+I am proud to announce that ReactOS Deutschland e.V. has hired Victor Perevertkin to work full-time on the ReactOS storage stack for the next 3 months.
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+Victor has been a proven contributor to various ReactOS components since 2018.
+He already got deep into the kernel side of things when writing Btrfs boot sector code in his GSoC debut, later managed the integration of a new USB stack, and recently touched nearly all parts of ReactOS when preparing it for the major upgrade to a new compiler toolchain.
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+During his contract with ReactOS Deutschland e.V., Victor will primarily work on the storage stack, a long neglected piece of ReactOS.
+He plans to finally [turn scsiport into a Plug & Play aware driver](https://jira.reactos.org/browse/CORE-17132) and [fix kernel Plug & Play bugs](https://jira.reactos.org/browse/CORE-10456) in the process, thereby improving USB storage support and compatibility to Windows storage drivers.  
+If time permits, stretch goals include continuing his previous work on integrating Google's Kernel Address Sanitizers into ReactOS and [fixing booting with our APIC-enabled HAL](https://jira.reactos.org/browse/CORE-14147).
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+This contract clearly marks a **major** milestone for the project, as your continued donations are finally enabling us to hire a developer full-time at near-market rates.  
+And we don't want to stop at this point:
+If you have a proven track record of working on ReactOS and want to work on it full-time for a limited amount of time, don't hesitate to submit your proposal to ReactOS Deutschland e.V.
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+Big thanks go out to all our **donors** who made this possible!