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 4 years now.

My natural languages are C/C++ and Python. I can also program in assembly, if need be. I have had experience with OpenGL, Gtk+, gtkmm, gdk, xlib, Cairo, libfakekey, gtkglext libraries, ffmpeg, and encoding/decoding libraries as well as lots of other code bases here and there.

As far as linux and computing 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.

Email: kdub432@gmail.com

IRC (freenode.net) Registered nicknames: kdub, kdubois I frequent #compiz-fusion-dev, #videolan, and #ubuntu-us-mi

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

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 (obsolete, packaged upstream)

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! https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MichiganTeam Penguicon http://penguicon.org

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

Packaging and Bug Jams

Compiz Fusion

I'm a contributing developer to the project. I maintain http://gitweb.compiz-fusion.org/?p=users/kdubois/extra-animations;a=summary, a branch of extra animations. ( Videos here http://kdubois.net/?p=46). We're currently working on porting the project from C to C++ for the next big release. I'm syndicated on planet.compiz-fusion.org as well.

Feel free to suggest new plugin or animation ideas to me! If I think its a good idea, there's a good chance I'll actually do it. :P

VLC

* Small patches and bugfixes to the team. I'm currently doing a huge rework of the audio backend that will remove a lot of redundant/ugly code, and allow for on-the-fly adjustments to the A/V stream. You can grab it from here: http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc-filters.git;a=summary

FFMPEG

* I've been accepted into the 2009 Google Summer of Code working on an audio filtering library that will provide equalizers, normalizers, volume adjustments, etc. all on the fly. I'm excited about it, it has far-reaching possibilities that could allow for applications like vlc or any gstreamer based project to easily put advanced audio filtering into their features list

Pet Projects

* Jot aims to be a character recognition program used by tablet PC's to allow for handwritten input of characters. The recognition rate is about 70% as of now, and its not user friendly yet. If you want something more usable, try out onestroke! Jot Homepage : https://launchpad.net/jot

* Flashnotes is a flashcard program aimed at training pianists. Written with GTK/Cairo, I hope to hook it up to a midi sequencing library so the program can recognize when the user gets the note correct. Grab the current code frome here: http://kdubois.net/src/flashnotes.tar.gz

Hardware Hacking

I'm a computer engineering student, which means I like hardware just as much I like software. My blog has a few details of projects that I've made from PIC microcontrollers that I've programmed using entirely OSS software. I have experience with embedded systems, and have worked with the assembly on PIC/amtel/PPC/i386 processors. I like flipping bits, and really would like to advance hardware design on linux systems. I have made slight modifications to get the entry level PIC programmer to work with linux.

Advocacy

Open Source Blog I maintain http://kdubois.net, an open source blog that has had 100,000+ pageviews since I made it about a year ago. I generally write advice, project updates, or how-to's (eg, http://kdubois.net/?p=24, http://kdubois.net/?p=25 )

Speeches

* 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

* I'm sitting on a half written speech about the linux desktop that I'm eager to deliver, when given the opportunity

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

I've also written many guides on my blog I'm to lazy to enumerate here :P.

Testimonials

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