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Mirco "MacSlow" Müller

Greetings everybody! I'm Mirco "MacSlow" Müller your friendly flipping hacker from the neighbourhood. I currently study computer-science in Aachen (Germany) and stuff like OpenGL, GLSL, cairo, glitz, gstreamer, compiz, SVG and realtime computer-graphics in general make my brain tick. Aside from that I always like a good portion of capoeira and acrobatics (as some UDS 2006 participants will testify). I mainly like to "live" upstream, but the cozy feeling the Ubuntu-project provides (technically and community-wise) makes it my Linux-distribution of choice for all my computing needs. I am a native german and I am also fluent in english (written and spoken).

Contact details

• eMail: [mailto:macslow@bangang.de macslow(at)bangang(dot)de]

• IRC: MacSlow on network irc.freenode.net

• Jabber: MacSlow(at)jabber(dot)org

• Homepage/Blog: [http://macslow.thepimp.net macslow.thepimp.net]

• Launchpad: [https://launchpad.net/people/macslow MacSlow]

Where to run into me online

• #cairo
• #compiz
• #compiz-dev
• #gstreamer
• #ubuntu
• #ubuntu+1
• #nvidia

Contribution

Ubuntu:

As I'm still very new to Ubuntu (only switched from Fedora about a year ago) I have no large track-record yet. Only recently my cairo-clock found its way into feisty's universe-repository ([https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/cairo-clock here], packaged myself... only little help from MOTU [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DanielHolbach Daniel Holbach]). Furthermore I started a direct involvement in [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FaceBrowserLogin shaping a part] of a future ubuntu release at the [http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=293228939&size=l UDS 2006]. Aside from that I do some sneakishly guerilla-marketing for ubuntu in the "loud and proud"-style... be it running around in an ubuntu-shirt at Windows-centric events with handing out CDs (e.g. [http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=296375822&size=o here] and [http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=296376139&size=o here]), just helping my friends or peers making the switch from proprietary system to Ubuntu or putting CDs from shipit in local computer-stores in my hometown.

General (more upstream-ish):

• My way of [http://cairographics.org/OpenGL making use of cairo with OpenGL]

[http://macslow.thepimp.net/clips/gl-cairo-cube.ogg http://macslow.thepimp.net/shots/small_gl-cairo-cube-1.png]

• I take some responsibility for [http://www.gnome-dock.org gnome-dock], which was cairo-dock a cairo/librsvg stress-test I wrote

• I am writing and maintaining [http://macslow.thepimp.net/cairo-clock cairo-clock]

[http://macslow.thepimp.net/clips/smooth-cairo-clock.ogg http://macslow.thepimp.net/shots/small_smooth-cairo-clock-1.png]

• I have written [http://macslow.thepimp.net/?p=30 skydome] and a few patches for compiz

• my big gun [http://macslow.thepimp.net/lowfat lowfat], which is not released yet... patience

• some more of my Linux-desktop-graphics research...

[http://macslow.thepimp.net/clips/cairo-argb-csharp.ogg http://macslow.thepimp.net/shots/small_cairo-argb-csharp.png] [http://macslow.thepimp.net/clips/am-i-cool-or-what-3.ogg http://macslow.thepimp.net/shots/small_am-i-cool-or-what-3.png] [http://macslow.thepimp.net/clips/video-texture-2.ogg http://macslow.thepimp.net/shots/small_video-texture-2_ogg.png]