I am posting this about two months late, but I am now a proud member of the GNOME Foundation[1]. Therefore, I would like to introduce myself to the other Foundation members and tell a bit of my history with the GNOME project and technologies.
TL;DR I did a few small things here and there related to GNOME, and generally like to play with multimedia technologies. My name is Guillaume Emont, though some people call me Guij, which is sort of an abbreviation of my irc nickname, which is guijemont (you can find me at least on #grilo and #gstreamer). I think I first discovered GNOME a long time ago (I'd say circa 2000), and liked it, but didn't really use it on a regular basis, partly because I didn't find it obscure and "leet" enough (yeah, I was a stupid teenager), and partly because I didn't have a lot of RAM on my computer then, therefore going towards minimalism (you know, Window Maker). In these old days, as a project in high school, I made a small "remote control" client/server application using GTK+, because I wanted to learn "for real" C, GTK+ and socket programming. It was a lot of fun, and I really hope that this code is lost forever, because I think it was really ugly. After that, I didn't touch much GNOME technologies for a while. By about 2005, I was more mature and RAM was less of an issue, and GNOME naturally became my default environment, seduced that I was by its focus on simplicity. I graduated in 2006 and took my first job in a proprietary software company. I should admit that it's probably where I learned how to write good code, partly by working with great people, and partly by seeing a lot of counter examples ;). I quickly became tired of the proprietary software culture, and got the opportunity to go work for Fluendo in sunny Barcelona in 2007. I worked there for about two years and half with a lot of marvellous and clever people. I was in the part of Fluendo that was making the (now mostly dead) Elisa/Moovida media center. There I had the opportunity to contribute a lot to two nice C/GObject projects: pigment[2] and GStreamer. That's also where I got my black belt in python and developed a hatred for the old style GObject bindings (long live to GObject Introspection!). In these days, I also started work on a C/GObject animation framework called PAF[3] that's been on hold forever, even though it's almost in a usable state, but might still be relevant for Clutter, or even GTK+, if I get enough people to motivate me into finishing this. I don't know what's the current status of Clutter and its animation tools. (note: PAF is not a graphic library, just a tool to "animate variables" that could be used with about any graphic library). More recently, I started to work for Igalia[4] in October 2010. I am very proud of being part of that group of great hackers, with quite a few of them active in GNOME. There I've been hacking on various things, the most relevant here being some work on GStreamer, with various patches here and there, an image stabilisation element[5] about which I talked at the GStreamer conference[6] and at FOSDEM[7]. I am currently working on some experimentations to put the demuxing and decoding in a sandbox[8], because you don't want to trust that "video from the internet", do you? It's mostly a proof of concept that only works on my machine for now, but I should blog[9] about it soon. You might or might not see that appear on planet gnome[10]. I have also been working quite a bit on Grilo[11], which is progressing nicely and getting some importance in the world of GNOME multimedia things. I also went to the last desktop summit and to the GObject Introspection hackfest that followed. I started fixing a bug[12] there, but I probably need to get my arse kicked a bit to make me finish that work (I can be very lazy). I am sorry for writing so long an email, and want to thank the few courageous who got to read it fully, may we share a lot of beer at the next GUADEC! Hopefully, the length of this message justifies that I am sending it two months late ;). Cheers, Guij [1] http://www.gnome.org/news/2012/02/welcome-to-more-new-gnome-foundation-members/ [2] a bit like Clutter, with a lot of potential, but unfortunately mostly abandoned https://launchpad.net/pigment [3] http://live.gnome.org/PAF [4] http://www.igalia.com/ [5] http://www.gitorious.org/gststabilizer [6] http://gstconf.ubicast.tv/videos/time-lapse-and-stabilizing-a-sequence-of-images/ [7] http://video.fosdem.org/2012/lightningtalks/Hacking_in_the_real_world.webm [8] https://github.com/guijemont/Sandboxed-Player [9] http://emont.org/blog/ [10] any planet gnome admin reading this? Please have a look at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=656656 [11] http://live.gnome.org/Grilo [12] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=558620 _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
