Hi all, I also reply a little bit late, but indeed this thread is interesting. On my side I have a master degree in acoustics and a professional background in acoustics and audio signal processing. I previously worked in a society which develops active control systems for room acoustics. Now I am real time software engineer at Aldebaran Robotics, a french company based in Paris which develops Nao, the europe's first humanoid robot ( http://www.aldebaran-robotics.com)
Our robot runs under a linux embedded distribution, so I'm very interested by the open source softwares and often use LGPL libraries inside of our code. I know that is not a commercial forum, but for those who would be interested, we just launched the Nao developer program. The aim is to constitute a community of top developers for the robot and to share our developments. You can find more informations about it here : http://ognacgnouc.com/ This program is accessible only by invitation. I have few ones to distribute, so if you are interested for joining us do not hesitate to contact me. Regards Vincent 2010/11/25 Olivier Guilyardi <[email protected]> > Hi everyone, > > sorry, I'm a bit late here, but I wanted to answer on this thread. > > On 11/10/2010 09:52 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 21:31 +0100, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > > >>> The reason I ask this is because I am curious about what kind of > >>> backgrounds a free software developer has. As for me, I am a student > >>> majoring in Music and minoring in Computer Science. I got the idea of > >>> writing this email, actually, because Google had an internship panel at > >>> my school. Google just loooooves open source and those involved. It > >>> sounds like Google has quite a friendly and cooperative working > >>> atmosphere, and they treat their employees very well. Yeah, I'd like > to > >>> work for Google, but who doesn't right? :) > >>> > > > > it's true, among other things they created an atmosphere that please the > > needs of highly gifted people and it's no fun to work in an 'averaged' > > atmosphere when you aren't 'normal'. Indeed a 'subtle' trick to catch > > 'unwanted' people. > > I recently met someone who worked at Google and she said that she indeed > had a > lot of freedom, and could choose the projects she worked on. For what it's > worth.. > > > OTOH it's your choice to shit on ethics ;), because Google shits on > > ethics. > > Well, ethics and big companies are maybe not the best friends. But Google > sometimes gets above the crowd, as recently in the suit against Oracle: > > http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20101111114933605 > "Each of the Patents-in-Suit is invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 101 because one > or > more claims are directed to abstract ideas or other non-statutory subject > matter." > > About myself, I have been self-employed for about 10 years, at my own > little > company, which is mainly comprised of myself, a few interns from time to > time, > and working with other small companies or freelances here in Paris. > > I only do software development, and for a few years now I have mostly done > audio > related development. And yes, it pays the bill. > > I also do music and have quite a lot of artistic and not-so-artistic > projects > maturating in the lab, which usually involve both music and software > development. Free software is everywhere here, it's my culture, but I'm no > fanatic. I think there's enough room in the world for other approaches, and > that > it can all be complementary. > > -- > Olivier > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev > -- -------------------------------------------------------- -------- acoustic / audio engineer --------- ----------- Aldebaran Robotics ------------- 168 bis / 170, rue Raymond Losserand ---------------- 75014 PARIS------------------- ----- Phone : +33(0)1.77.37.17.66 ------- ----- Mobile : +33(0)6.89.35.71.85 ------- --------------------------------------------------------
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