On 05/16/2012 12:38 PM, Jørn Lomax wrote:
On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 17:25 +0200, Brendan Jones wrote:
On 04/24/2012 03:53 AM, Christopher R. Antila wrote:
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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
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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
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Hey Jørn
(if you can tell me how to get that crazy umlaut/o on my keyboard it'd
be much appreciated)
Thanks for the intro - it seems to me that you are exactly what the
project is after. I too started out with Ubuntu studio back in the day
but abandoned it for various reasons (mainly work related) and since
joining Fedora have never looked back. You are right - Fedora has long
since been considered a developer's distro but the fact of the matter is
that most audio developers are using debian as their distro of choice.
This means that we have a lot of catch up to do and hopefully we can
turn the tables in due course, and bring both users and developers back
into the fold.
Whilst there is a strong packaging aspect of your task (and you should
get your first package reviewed and mentored ASAP) there is also a lot
of communication that needs to be had with the various SIG's involved.
First things first, I'd suggest we start holding bi-monthly IRC meetings
with you as the chair, and we can start to discuss such things as the
package make-up of the spin, and what we can and can't do in terms of
configuration out of the box. We probably will have many questions to
put to the Spins SIG. I'll leave it up to you to organize the IRC
meeting when you are free from your studies. I work from home so am very
flexible in terms of time etc.
And most importantly, good luck with your final exam! If you need help
or have any questions I'm there's a bunch of people here (myself
included) who can help you out.
cheers
Brendan
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