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From 2001-2012, I have worked for Oracle (previously Sun Microsystems) primarily on the Free Software GNOME desktop for the Solaris operating system.

If you are interested in getting involved with GNU or GNOME code development on Solaris, I recommend the OpenSolaris JDS Project as a good starting point. The CBE (Common Build Environment) makes building and packaging Free Software on Solaris easy. The CBE is based on the SourceForge pkgbuild project.

Examples of my GNOME contributions include:

  • Acted as President (2011-2012), Secretary (2009-2011) and Director (2007-2012) of The GNOME Foundation.
  • I have been a maintainer of the GDM (GNOME Display Manager) module since January, 2005.
  • Worked on the GNOME Accessibility Project, mainly in libgail.
  • I have been involved with GNOME performance tuning. For example, I integrated gdk-pixbuf and GDK with the Solaris VIS hardware accelleration chipset via the mediaLib library. Patches can be found at 344813.
  • Porting GStreamer and programs which use GStreamer like totem, rhythmbox and sound-juicer to Solaris/Sun Studio.
  • Managed the ARC (Architecture Review Committee) process for the JDS desktop for the 2.6, 2.12, 2.14, and 2.16 community development cycles.
  • Work at making GNOME work properly with Solaris and Sun hardware.
  • Documentation (man pages, etc.).

I have also worked on the OpenOffice Xmerge project.

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