[gentoo-dev] New developer: Stefaan De Roeck (stefaan)

[Tom Martin <slarti@gentoo.org>]

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Afternoon list,

Another new developer to tell you about. Stefaan joins us from Leuven,
Belgium, and will be maintaining the OpenAFS ebuilds. He's an competent
C++ programmer, and although he has used other languages in the past,
C++ is the language he feels most comfortable with.

Stefaan is currently working for a Ph.D. in electrical engineering,
specifically, in image processing. He's been producing real-time
algorithms for 3D reconstruction and spending time on transferring
image data between between different nodes of a cluster, amongst other
things.

Outside of his research and work, he hasn't really contributed to many
public projects besides OpenAFS. He has, however, created a "running
contest monitor" program. On a 500 metre track, twenty teams run a relay
for 24 hours -- the team who has completed the most laps at the end of
the 24 hours wins. The people who started the project had made some
hardware to act as infrared transponders, in order to track the runners.
The software keeping track of the transponders was a Visual C++
application limited to just that PC. Stefaan has implemented more
efficient tracking software, and has integrated a webserver, a java
applet showing estimated positions of runners on the tracks,
visualisation in opengl on TVs placed around the track, and that kind of
thing. Stefaan describes it as "Quite a bit of fun, really."i

Stefaan plays the piano, and has been attending singing and viola
lessons for about a year. He has also been going to Chinese classes for
three years. He is interested in circus acts, and is able to use a
diabolo and fold balloons, and understands the knack behind rotating
paltes, juggling, devil sticks and that kind of thing. He can even ride
a unicycle, provided he has some support -- "at least a finger!" Using
these skills, he's helped in organised children's holidays. He says that
he enjoys entertaining them, with or without circus acts. Stefaan also
has a girlfriend that he is very happy with. She isn't interested in
computers that much, but he says that they both complement each other
very well. Coincidentally, they met at a viola lesson!

So, with that, say 'hi' to Stefaan on IRC and do your best to welcome him
to the team.

Tom

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