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Afternoon list, |
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Another new developer to tell you about. Stefaan joins us from Leuven, |
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Belgium, and will be maintaining the OpenAFS ebuilds. He's an competent |
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C++ programmer, and although he has used other languages in the past, |
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C++ is the language he feels most comfortable with. |
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Stefaan is currently working for a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, |
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specifically, in image processing. He's been producing real-time |
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algorithms for 3D reconstruction and spending time on transferring |
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image data between between different nodes of a cluster, amongst other |
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things. |
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Outside of his research and work, he hasn't really contributed to many |
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public projects besides OpenAFS. He has, however, created a "running |
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contest monitor" program. On a 500 metre track, twenty teams run a relay |
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for 24 hours -- the team who has completed the most laps at the end of |
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the 24 hours wins. The people who started the project had made some |
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hardware to act as infrared transponders, in order to track the runners. |
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The software keeping track of the transponders was a Visual C++ |
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application limited to just that PC. Stefaan has implemented more |
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efficient tracking software, and has integrated a webserver, a java |
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applet showing estimated positions of runners on the tracks, |
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visualisation in opengl on TVs placed around the track, and that kind of |
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thing. Stefaan describes it as "Quite a bit of fun, really."i |
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Stefaan plays the piano, and has been attending singing and viola |
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lessons for about a year. He has also been going to Chinese classes for |
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three years. He is interested in circus acts, and is able to use a |
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diabolo and fold balloons, and understands the knack behind rotating |
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paltes, juggling, devil sticks and that kind of thing. He can even ride |
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a unicycle, provided he has some support -- "at least a finger!" Using |
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these skills, he's helped in organised children's holidays. He says that |
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he enjoys entertaining them, with or without circus acts. Stefaan also |
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has a girlfriend that he is very happy with. She isn't interested in |
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computers that much, but he says that they both complement each other |
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very well. Coincidentally, they met at a viola lesson! |
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So, with that, say 'hi' to Stefaan on IRC and do your best to welcome him |
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to the team. |
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Tom |
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-- |
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Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti |
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AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters |
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