I'm 28 years old and live in Lund, Sweden. I've been using computers with music since I was 12 or so, when I figured out I could make melodies to play on the PC speaker. :-) After that it was Adlib (I even made my own small "sequencer" to make adlib music), then Fasttracker 2, then Cubase, and now I'm here. I visited the demo scene some years as well.
I'm a hobbyist musician and play the piano in a Gospel choir. I also compose music, say, one song a year or so...it's not that often that inspiration comes along these days. You can listen to it here: http://www.diwic.se I work as a software developer, making real-time information systems for buses, among other things. I'm relatively unexperienced in the Linux world, I switched my OS at home from Windows XP to Ubuntu a year and a few months ago. (That was my third attempt to use Linux, the first one ended in complete failure - there was something wrong with the partition table, so Windows and Linux ended up overwriting each other's data. Ouch.) So, what's in FluidSynth for me? Well, first it's about ethics - giving back to the community that has helped me, and I really hope we can solve Ubuntu bug #1 one day. Second, it's a valuable experience to be collaborating with other people in an open/free software project (which is a new experience for me). Third, I like programming, and I think audio for Linux is an area that needs improvement. FluidSynth seems to be an important part of Linux audio, as many other program depend on it to work correctly. And it seems like it needs a bit fixing. I guess that sums it up. I enjoyed reading your presentations! Have a nice day! // David _______________________________________________ fluid-dev mailing list fluid-dev@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-dev