Christopher has been helping out the Gentoo community for some time now. His contributions have been across the board and of very good quality. I will be mentoring him as he helps out the sound herd. Full Name: Christopher J. Kucera IRC Nick: xolotl desired @gentoo.org login (hopefully same as IRC): xolotl@gentoo.org Location: Madison, WI (USA) Age: 27 OSS / Software Engineering experience outside of Gentoo: Apart from occasional patches and general low-level OSS contribution stuff, most of my software development work has been for actual corporations, etc, where the end-result isn't actually OSS. The one notable exception is Zuul (zuul.sf.net) which I had been working on with rizzo (he's another Gentoo dev), which is actually probably a poor example because I haven't actually used the thing for almost a year now, and as such it's a little out-of date. Ask rizzo about the search screen to find out more. :) Regardless, I've got experience doing the usual gamut of C, Java, Perl, Python, shell scripting, etc; quite a lot of web development in various platforms like PHP, various Java servers, and Zope. I've also worked on larger DBs liks Oracle and Sybase, though most recently I've just been doing the usual MySQL or Postgres. I've also worked on other UNIXes (I learned on Ultrix and OSF/1, 'bout 9 years ago or so), though I've been almost exclusively on Linux for the past three years or so (I believe my first Linux distro was Slackware somethingorother, back in '95, copied onto floppy after floppy after floppy...). Right now I'm primarily working on administering a network on multiple UNIX-based machines, moving over to being mostly Gentoo, which handles the usual sort of ISP things. Oh, I should also mention that, should Gentoo ever need any experts in BASIC, I also used to program little text adventures in BASIC way back in the days of the almighty PCjr, eventually graduating on to QBASIC when that wonder-of-wonders found its way into my DOS installation. My first "real" language was when I got myself a copy of Borland Visual C++ 3.0, with that wonderful ASCII menu interface and everything. Now *those* were the days.
Eradicator, what's going on with this?
He had some things come up and needed some time before he could start the mentorship. Chris, how are things going?
Yeah, things are going well; I'm still interested in the position, but Real Life has apparently had some other plans in store for me for the past few months because I've had little time to dedicate to new endeavors. I've been on the verge of having a more open schedule for awhile now, and as soon as that opens up I'll be able to go through and send some ebuilds eradicator's way so we can get this rolling again. If the timeframe's getting too elongated I'd understand, though, too.
ok, I'm marking this one LATER. Chris, if you do get more time, we'll be more than interested... feel free to reopen this bug when you're ready.
Not that I've really come across more time that I could dedicate specifically to working towards being a Gentoo dev or anything, but a recent acquisition of a SIP account to use has led to a few extra ebuilds, etc, that I've thrown together. May as well record 'em here for posterity: * bug #92831 - new version of partysip, not a whole lot going on there really * bug #97309 - various fixes to net-misc/siproxd-0.5.11 * bug #97335 - qt registering with pkgconfig (no actual patches yet, waiting for feedback from the KDE/QT folks) * bug #97352 - new ebuild for a SIP Softphone, somewhat unfortunately named "Twinkle" I've also touched on a few sort-of related bugs, and poked my head in on a few others, etc.
