On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 17:25 +0200, Brendan Jones wrote: > On 04/24/2012 03:53 AM, Christopher R. Antila wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Congratulations to Jorn Lomax, who was accepted to Google Summer of > > Code 2012 for the Fedora Audio Spin! > > > > This is good news for all of us here in the Audio SIG, and I hope we > > can all find the time to lend a hand where possible. > > > > A list of accepted proposals can be found here: > > https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/projects/list/google/gsoc2012 > > Fedora has 10, and they all look interesting and useful. > > > > Thank you to all the students who applied. I hope everybody finds a > > way to contribute in the future. > > > > I'd like to second Christophers' comments in congratulating Jorn and > welcoming him into the Fedora team. I'm really looking forward to see > what we can do together. > > I think this is a really exciting time for Linux Audio, and its time > Fedora caught up. I encourage all the members of the list to voice your > opinions/concerns now such that we have sufficient time to address them > before Fedora 18 (may seem like a long way away, but its not). It will > also give Jorn a heads up before his project finishes. > > To the other applicants: the number of slots allocated to Fedora by > Google this year was smaller than we expected, and as a result we were > only able to choose one applicant, whereas we would have liked two. That > doesn't mean you can't contribute to Fedora and/or the Audio spin, all > efforts are welcome, and can only improve your GSOC chances next year. > > regards, > > Brendan > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > music mailing list > music@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/music I would like to use this opportunity to introduce myself. As stated above, my name is Jørn Lomax. As you con probably tell from my name, I'm Norwegian. I'm 23 years old and a second year CS student at the University of Tromsø I would also like to apologize for taking so long to introduce myself. I just finished one exam in my operating systems course, in which we were to implement virtual memory with paging and swapping from scratch. It turned out to be a bit of a bitch (pardon my language) to implement so my past 3 weeks have been stuck in the university CS lab swearing at a computer screen. I get my next assignment today (this time we are creating a filesystem) which will be due in another 3 weeks. This means that i have one week free now to catch up on everything that is backed up and then my time will get increasingly tied up to the exam the closer i get to the delivery date. Anyway, back to the point. The reason I applied to do GSoC with fedora, is because i think that an audio spin is just what fedora needs. I have been used ubuntu studio several times, and i think it's very useful. But that being said, if you are not an ubuntu fan, there are no other options. I also want to learn how to help with an open source project as much as possible, and i can see myself one day being a regular contributer to an open source project, and i would not mind at all if that project happened to be fedora I have something of a background in music, but i wouldn't go as far as to say I'm a musician. I studied music for three years at "videregående skole" (high school (US) or collage(UK)). I specialized in guitar,but i was never any good at it. I was however good at composing and arranging, and that is something i still love doing. Don't get me wrong, i still take my guitar out an play from time to time, but it's not something o do actively. I did play in a band when at school, but we never really got anywhere. As you can probably guess by the fact that I'm a guitarist, my musical tastes fall some where close. I'm a huge prog rock fan, with Pink Floyd being my all time favorite band, but i also love Dream theater, genesis, Micheal Oldfield etc. . But i like all music, apart from hip-hop or death metal and i often listen to techno(huge daft punk fan), classical(my favorite composers are Eric Satie, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven) or just chill out to classic rock. When it comes to me and Linux, I have used it for 5-6 years now. I have mainly used ubuntu or mint, but have also used openSUSE for over a year. At school we run centOS (some ancient version of it). I have run fedora, but i usually run into some issue I'm not sure about and instead of figuring it out, i install something I'm used to. That was 1-2 years ago and I have installed it again on my desktop, and I'm able to resolve more of the issues i used to have now, since I'm much more experienced in Linux now than i was when i tried it last. I don't have any experience with packaging, but I'm a fast learner when i get into things and I'm sure i will pick it up quickly. I'm really looking forward to working with everyone, and i will be in 100% from the 7th of June when i have completed my last exam in linear algebra (may the gods grant me help on that one). I'll be watching the mailing list closely until then. If there are any question, i will be happy to answer them regards, Jørn Lomax _______________________________________________ music mailing list music@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/music
