DanielPocock

About Me

I am a professional software engineer. I graduated B.CompSc, the University of Melbourne, Australia. Over 15 years professional experience. Currently based in central Europe.

Contact Information

Contributions

Real-time multimedia communications and VoIP

I have been actively working to enable real-time communications (VoIP, video and IM) using free software. Making such free solutions as easy to deploy as possible, by packaging them for the major Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora.

  • As an upstream developer, I have put significant effort in to making reSIProcate suitable for packaging in Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, including a complete overhaul of the build system (it now uses autotools) reSIProcate on launchpad

  • Documenting how real-time multimedia communications can be implemented on major Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, on the Real-time communications (RTC) quick start guide

  • I have updated VoIP information on the Ubuntu wiki to integrate with the current state of these projects

Financial software

Much of my professional experience is in financial services, with a focus on front office trading and connectivity solutions.

I have been active in packaging some of the leading open source financial software products, including:

  • OpenMAMA, the real-time messaging and market price data distribution system open-sourced by NYSE

  • PostBooks, a comprehensive small business accounting, CRM and ERP solution with a multi-user Qt-based GUI, using PostgreSQL as the backend

Other projects

Please see this page for a more detailed overview of the free software projects I contribute to across a range of platforms, including Debian and Fedora

My free software contributions are not intended to be exclusive to Ubuntu or any other distribution, I believe in the expression that a rising tide lifts all boats. In the world of real-time communications software, the most important thing is to enable interoperability between platforms and I have been particularly dedicated to making sure that these solutions work on Ubuntu just as well as any other major platform I support.

Future Goals

Improving interoperability of real-time communications software on all the major Linux distributions.

Making WebRTC work successfully on Linux, both on servers and desktops. For example, extending the DruCall module for Drupal and making it fully installable with apt-get.

Testimonials

If you know me and have something nice to say, please leave a comment here.

Dmitry Shachnev

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I have sponsored three syncs for Daniel, and they have been mostly
looking good. With resiprocate, there were some problems related to
Ubuntu Saucy specific build failures, and Daniel quickly worked with
upstream to fix those.

Areas to improve: it would be nice if Daniel had filed freeze exceptions
before requesting sponsorship after freeze, and did better testing to
make sure his packages build on development release.
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Specific Experiences of working together

Daniel Holbach (dholbach)

I sponsored a couple of syncs for Daniel and he was always quick to respond. I very much agree with Dmitry has to say.

A few syncs I did:

Iain Lane (laney)

I sponsored syncs of netxx and openmama in the Saucy cycle for Daniel. I recall the packages were fine and that there was correct and appropriate interaction with the release team, as these were while we were under feature freeze.

DanielPocock (last edited 2013-12-31 12:05:15 by cpc5-clif9-2-0-cust434)