KevinDuBois
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 
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 gave an hour and a half long speech promoting Ubuntu Linux to the Ann Arbor Computing Society on behalf of Michigan Loco in December
Compiz Fusion
One of the more exciting 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. 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.
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