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''' Advocacy ''' == Advocacy ==

About Me

I am an undergraduate Computer Engineering student at the University of Michigan and a fan of Ubuntu and everything Linux. I have been using Linux primarily for 3 years now.

My natural languages are C and C++. I have a good knowledge base in object oriented programming, and can quickly adapt to other languages, if I need to Wink ;-) I have had experience with OpenGL, Gtk+, gtkmm, gdk, xlib, Cairo, libfakekey, and gtkglext libraries, as well as lots of other code bases here and there.

As far as linux goes, I am interested in Free and Open Source Software, advanced graphics programming, low level operating system internals, and writing hardware drivers for the linux kernel. I'm just coming up to speed on the latter two, and hope to contribute some very useful code in the near future!

Email: kdub432@gmail.com

IRC (freenode.net) Nicknames: kdub, kdub432, kdubois

Blog: [http://kdubois.net]

Launchpad Homepage: [https://launchpad.net/~kdub]

OpenPGP Keys: pub 1024D/B6BE7E88 2008-02-08 Kevin DuBois <kdub432@gmail.com>

Projects & Contributions

Ubuntu

I consider myself on the road to becoming a MOTU, and try in my free time to further my goal of obtaining this status.

Packaging

Packages on REVU:

tv-grab-dvb : a tool for ripping EPG data off of DVB TS streams and parsing them into XML

ocropus : a Tesseract-based optical character recognition program

Bug Hunting

I try to hunt down as many bugs as I can in Ubuntu during my spare time. Look on Launchpad if you're interested in seeing what I've done!

LOCO Team

I am a member of the Michigan Ubuntu LOCO team [MichiganTeam] . We've got a lot of good projects going on, look into some of them!

Penguicon [http://penguicon.org] : We're heading up the Ubuntu presentations and organizing various activities! Hope to see you there in April!

User Support : If #ubuntu is too crowded, stop by #ubuntu-us-mi for support!

Packaging and Bug Jams

Advocacy

I maintain http://kdubois.net, an open source blog that has had around 35,000 pageviews since January. Stop by and make comments! Maybe there are things to be learned too!

I gave an hour and a half long speech promoting Ubuntu Linux to the Ann Arbor Computing Society on behalf of Michigan Loco in December

The Kernel

I consider myself a baby kernel hacker, and hope to contribute to the actual kernel repositories in the near future. As of right now, all I've done is read a lot of documentation, and create some psuedo-useless modules and made an alternative process scheduler that results in a rather spectacular kernel implosion... If any one has any pointers or advice, I'd be an avid student...

Compiz Fusion

One of the more exciting/fun projects I'm involved in, compiz fusion is an openGL based window manager for linux operating systems, (i.e. eyecandy for linux). I'm currently bug hunting for this project, and working on writing some new window animations, depending on school's workload. I have some animation plugins that are done. Take a gander! http://kdubois.net/?p=46. I hope to have these included in upcoming compiz releases. Feel free to suggest new plugins ideas to me! Homepage: [opencompositing.org]

IRC: #compiz-fusion

Jot

Jot aims to be a character recognition program used by tablet PC's to allow for handwritten input of characters. As of today (Feb 12, 2008) it is in an alpha stage, but should be usable in a few months, after I implement a secondary comparison technique to refine handwritten character recognition. At the moment, I'm not actively working on it, as school sucks away too much time, but I hope to pick up the work in the summer!

Jot Homepage : [https://launchpad.net/jot]

Guides

I have written a guide for installing Ubuntu on the Lenovo Thinkpad x61 Tablet. http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installing_Ubuntu_7.04_%28Feisty_Fawn%29_on_an_X61_Tablet



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