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| I spend much of my time on the official Ubuntu support channel as user "dcraven", and maintain various wiki pages such as the SetupNdiswrapperHowto and FixVideoResolutionHowto. I am interested in joining the MOTU team and packaging some of my own software for possible inclusion (I'm especially excited about Newton (see below)). I then would like to begin participating in the implementation of more Ubuntu specific utilities and applications. | I spend much of my time on the official Ubuntu support channel as user "dcraven", and maintain various wiki pages such as the SetupNdiswrapperHowto and FixVideoResolutionHowto. I am interested in joining the MOTU team and packaging some of my own software for possible inclusion (I'm especially excited about Newton (see below)). I then would like to begin participating in the implementation of more Ubuntu specific utilities and applications. Through reading the documentation in this wiki and chatting with the folks on irc.freenode.org, I hope to aquire the information I need to become an official member of the Ubuntu community. There is a good chance that I will be attending the [http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBelowZero UBZ] conference at the beginning of November 2005, so I hope to meet some of the Ubuntu team there and to get some work done :) |
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| I suppose my largest project to date is [http://notemeister.sf.net Notemeister], however, I'm currently working on other things. My current project is a serverless wiki applet for GNOME. Given the popularity of projects such as Tomboy, there may be a demand for a program that can render rich html content using simple markup language, with no setup or server required. The project's name is "Newton", and it has no homepage yet. Alpha screenshots are available [http://arker.homelinux.org/~dcraven/newton-home.png here] and [http://arker.homelinux.org/~dcraven/newton-edit-home.png here]. The project is written in Python, my pet language. | My first real program of any non-trivial size that was released as GPL and actually used by other people than myself was [http://notemeister.sourceforge.net Notemeister]. Development has all but died off for this project as I had a brainfart one night and decided on creating a far more powerful (in my eyes) replacement for it called [http://newton.sourceforge.net Newton](see below). To help with my off and on gaming addiction, I wrote (along with friend and colleague JasonGorski) a GNOME applet that can be used to keep tabs on online gaming servers and friends. Details of this project can be found a the [http://echelon-applet.sourceforge.net Echelon] home page. Although I do intend on maintaining this application as well, my main focus for a while will be on [http://newton.sourceforge.net Newton]. Most of my spare time of late is writing a personal wiki application called [http://newton.sourceforge.net Newton]. The details may be found at its [http://newton.sourceforge.net home page], but briefly, it is a [http://www.gnome.org GNOME] application that allows the user to create rich documents in a simple wiki syntax and have it rendered in HTML using the gecko engine. |
DennisCraven
Intro
Currently a Masters student at [http://www.uwo.ca The University of Western Ontario] studying distributed systems and in particular, the deployment of network testbeds on multi-node clusters.
I have been using GNU/Linux exclusively since September 8, 2001 (got the date from my /boot partition). Mandrake occupied the first 3 months, Debian/Ubuntu have the last 3, and Gentoo has the rest. Gentoo still has a place in my heart, but I think I simply outgrew the source-based distrobution method. Ubuntu offers many of the features that I enjoyed with Gentoo, in a powerful binary alternative.
Ubuntu Support Efforts
I spend much of my time on the official Ubuntu support channel as user "dcraven", and maintain various wiki pages such as the SetupNdiswrapperHowto and FixVideoResolutionHowto. I am interested in joining the MOTU team and packaging some of my own software for possible inclusion (I'm especially excited about Newton (see below)). I then would like to begin participating in the implementation of more Ubuntu specific utilities and applications. Through reading the documentation in this wiki and chatting with the folks on irc.freenode.org, I hope to aquire the information I need to become an official member of the Ubuntu community.
There is a good chance that I will be attending the [http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBelowZero UBZ] conference at the beginning of November 2005, so I hope to meet some of the Ubuntu team there and to get some work done 
Pet Projects
I do spend some time writing various programs and useless utilities/scripts.
My first real program of any non-trivial size that was released as GPL and actually used by other people than myself was [http://notemeister.sourceforge.net Notemeister]. Development has all but died off for this project as I had a brainfart one night and decided on creating a far more powerful (in my eyes) replacement for it called [http://newton.sourceforge.net Newton](see below).
To help with my off and on gaming addiction, I wrote (along with friend and colleague JasonGorski) a GNOME applet that can be used to keep tabs on online gaming servers and friends. Details of this project can be found a the [http://echelon-applet.sourceforge.net Echelon] home page. Although I do intend on maintaining this application as well, my main focus for a while will be on [http://newton.sourceforge.net Newton].
Most of my spare time of late is writing a personal wiki application called [http://newton.sourceforge.net Newton]. The details may be found at its [http://newton.sourceforge.net home page], but briefly, it is a [http://www.gnome.org GNOME] application that allows the user to create rich documents in a simple wiki syntax and have it rendered in HTML using the gecko engine.
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