Hi,
First the boring stuff: J.W.R. de Goede Rotterdam, The Netherlands
I work as an electronics and computerscience teacher for a dutch university (www.hhs.nl)
For starters I would like to just build some packages and get them added to fedora.us:
-I currently have a svgalib (stable version) src rpm sitting on my hd ready for submission.
-I'm also interested in building a rxvt-unicode rpm and a yodl rpm since rxvt-unicode needs yodl to generate its manpages, see: https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1901
I haven't got a response from Andreas yett if he is going todo it, if he's not I very likely will.
-I have plans todo packaging for the following, this might never leave the plans stadium though:
*emulators for example: xmame, snes9x, genesis-sdl, ....
*I would like to see a free java development environment, like debian has with free-jdk, so this would mean packaging sablevm, classpath-tools and a package with wrappers to make it all behave like the real JDK. So this would be a true virtualmachine based java environment. A bit quiestion is how this would mix and match with gcc-java.
Besides the packaging I'm interested in:
-making fedora work better on older hardware, without sacreficing features for new hardware, so intergrating older hardware support into the core, not creating a seperate distro for older hardware.
-textmode (and xterm and friends) keyboard mapping also know as home/end/del hel. Just search for bugs submitted by j.w.r.degoede@xxxxxx
in RH bugzilla.
-thinclient technologies and diskless clients such as root-over-nfs
-getting rid of small anoyances (the mozzila startup notification in gnome for example)
Historical qualifications: -I've started using linux in 1996 and I've been a RedHat user ever since, currently my home computer doesn't have anything but Linux installed, and even at work I work mostly under Linux. -my first programming project was continuing the DOS port of VGB (gameboy emulator) and backporting the improvements to the unix original. -Professionally I've done lotts of embedded projects with Linux, including Realtime data-aquisition using rtlinux. -my biggest hobby project sofar has been maintaining and extending the unix port of mame, xmame. I've stopped doing this due to computer use related health problems, which I hope to have left behind me now. -I've written a couple of small howto's on root over NFS and textmode keybinding hell. Which are now pretty obsolete. -I've been a RedHat Beta Team member doing testing on the pre public beta's for RedHat for a couple of years, during that period I've been offered an QA job at RedHat.
Computer languages and other skills: -I know my way around computers and esp. Linux pretty well -I'm not Alan Cox, but I believe I can write pretty decent code. -I know the following languages: *C (very well) *C++ (well) *Java (well) *bash (good enough) *python (done some coding in the past) *php (done some coding in the past)
Why should you trust me?
-When it comes to trust I know 2 sorts of people, people who start a new relation ship with a certain amount of trust and adjust this as the relation continues, and people who start with a certain amount of distrust.
-I'm somebody who likes to start with a certain amount of trust and start not trusting people if the behave in a way which makes me distrust them. I hope I will receive the trust I'm willing to show.
GPG KEYID and fingerprint
-Okay this GPG stuff is new to me (remember, I'm the trusting type), so I hope I get this right:
Regards,
Hans
p.s.
Since I haven't been active in the computerworld for some time I currently don't have a personal website, can someone help me with some webspace where I can upload the src.rpm's for the packages I build?
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