Hi there, my name is Philipp Überbacher and I'm interested in making denemos MIDI and audio playback independent of the GUI.
However, I'm a bit uncertain that I'll be able to do it, hence this informal pre-application. I simply want to know your opinion on how hard a job it would be and whether you think I could do it. For this purpose, here's some information about me: I follow Linux Audio Development since a couple of years and tried most programs there are. I did use ubuntu studio beginning with its inception until about two years ago during which time I helped new users to make their first steps. About two years ago I moved on to Arch Linux where I maintain scripts that allow users to build applications easily (I almost exclusively maintain scripts for audio/MIDI applications). I'm also more or less actively reporting bugs since I use GNU/Linux. As for my education, I'm enrolled as a computer science student at Alpen Adria Universität Klagenfurt [2] since October 2010, so I'm in my second semester now. I did dabble in programming before I started to study but never had any serious project. My university's program is quite java-centric, but I'm currently enrolled in a course on operating systems which is one of the few at this university that require C ([3] and [4], in German only). So my programming experience and especially C experience is limited, however, since the course makes heavy use of C I expect to learn quite a lot during this semester. The course covers processes, IPC, threads and kernel programming (and I have to give a short presentation about making single threaded programs multi-threaded). It counts as one of the hardest courses at this university and I don't expect to learn much more about those topics in the courses to come. I hope that this course will serve me as a good warm-up and that it will be sufficient with respect to C programming and threads, but I can't tell for sure that it will be enough. Realtime programming is something I have no experience in, but it is something I intend to learn anyway. One more thing worth mentioning: I have university courses throughout June, which will limit my time during this period. So what do you think? Is this a job I could manage to do? Best regards, Philipp [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&L=2&K=hollunder [2] http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/main/inhalt/1.htm [3] https://campus.aau.at/studien/lvkarte.jsp?rlvkey=67588 [4] https://campus.aau.at/studien/lvkarte.jsp?rlvkey=67589 _______________________________________________ Denemo-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/denemo-devel
