KevinDuBois

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About Me

Kevin DuBois, Computer Engineer, San Diego, CA, USA

  • point-of-contact for Ubuntu Hours in San Diego, California since October.
  • specializes in kernel and embedded work, especially multimedia and graphics.
  • University of Michigan graduate (2010).
  • I have been using Ubuntu as my primary OS since 5.10.
  • natural languages are C/C++, and python. Lots of involvement with graphics and multimedia libraries

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Ubuntu Advocacy and Involvement

  • LOCO Teams

    I am a member of the California Ubuntu Loco team [CaliforniaTeam] from 2010 onward. I've been organizing the San Diego area activities. I have organized the monthly San Diego-area Ubuntu Hours since October 2010, and was an exhibitor for the Ubuntu booth at the Scale9x expo.

    I was a member of the Michigan Ubuntu LOCO team [MichiganTeam] from its founding in 2008 to 2010. During my involvement, I attended most Ann Arbor based activities, and gave some speeches on behalf of the Ubuntu Loco. I moved to California in 2010 and joined the California team!

  • Open Source Blog

    I maintain http://kdubois.net, an open source blog that has had 100,000+ pageviews since I made it about 3 years ago. I generally write advice, project updates, or how-to's

  • 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 2008. I intend to give a speech to the San Diego area LUG (kplug) detailing the Linux graphics ecosystem, and the impact that the Wayland Server will have on it within the next two months.
  • Guides I have written many guides for how to do things on Ubuntu. I'll list a few examples:

Other Open Source Projects & Contributions

Kernel

My day-job involves development for the Android kernel, which is open source and eventually winds its way back to the mainline kernel. I have developed and improved the graphics drivers for the kernel.

Compiz Fusion

I was a contributing developer to the project from 2007 to 2009. I maintained http://gitweb.compiz-fusion.org/?p=users/kdubois/extra-animations;a=summary, a branch of extra animations. ( Videos here http://kdubois.net/?p=46). I am syndicated on planet.compiz-fusion.org as well.

VLC

* patches and bugfixes to the team. My rework of the audio filtering infrastructure was incorporated into mainline.

FFMPEG

* I was 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.

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, which means I like hardware just as much I like software. My blog has a few details of projects that I've made from AVR and 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 love promoting hardware development using only open source tools.

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