Greetings,<br><br> I have been active in the Open Source and Linux community, in particular, since 1994. Over this time I have been able to make a number of contributions to projects including WindowMaker, Nautilus, Mozilla, and several Gnome libraries and applications. I have also created many of my own projects, such as VoodooTracker (a FastTracker clone), GnomeRSVP, and MindFire (a nifty cross-platform Gtk#/Mono app). Due to this work, I have been afforded several honors, such as IPO shares from RedHat, seeing my name in print in "Linux Music and Sound", working with the LSB, and getting to participate in the Gnome Foundation in 1999/2000.
<br> In my professional life, I worked as a System Analyst for Procter and Gamble for five years, before joining Hewlett-Packard as a Solution Architect in 2003. Thanks to this experience, I have been able to gain a large amount of first hand knowledge in professionally designing, resourcing, testing, and publicising software and services to a large customer base of varying interests. Unfortunately, my career and family obligations have left me with little time to engage in the amount of hacking I once did.
<br> Recently, I've decided it was about time to "get back in the game", and the KDE project seems to be an interesting place to start. No Gnome bashing intended, but KDE seems to have a more enlightened direction for the future, especially with the information circulating about the upcoming
4.x series. I'd like to do what I can to pitch in and help, while I become famillier with the application coding standards and HIG of the project in general. <br> Over the next year, I hope to roll out my own KDE application or make some significant contributions to a deserving one. I look forward to working with some of you in the future!
<br><br>Greg<br>-<br><br>Disclaimer: Although, I work for Hewlett-Packard please don't credit any contributions I make to the wonderful work they are already doing with the community. I'm doing all of this in my limited spare time, for free! ;) Thanks!
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