DennisCraven
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.
Pet Projects
I do spend some time writing various programs and useless utilities/scripts.
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.
