Introduction

[Raphael Langerhorst]

On Wednesday 14 December 2005 07:39 Gregory Hayes wrote:
> Greetings,
>
>     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.
>     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.
>    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. 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!
>
> Greg
> -
>
> 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!


Hi Gregory,

great to hear from you.

I'm planning on introducing some quality management into the KOffice 
(http://www.koffice.org) project. I think with your experience at HP (and 
maybe lots of other things) there is probably quite some valuable input you 
could share to make sure that the KOffice quality management infrastructure 
will fit well into the general work flow of development. I'd appreciate that.

If you're interested in KOffice quality management, you can join 
http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice-devel and say hello.


If you find another spot in the large KDE realm that you like, you can of 
course go that way as well :)  Whatever you do, thank you for all your 
efforts.

Regards,
-- 
Raphael Langerhorst
http://raphael.g-system.at/blog