This is way overdue, sorry it took so long. Since there are no objections, I am adding you now. Welcome!
.hc On Dec 17, 2007, at 7:47 PM, Russell Bryant wrote: > Greetings, > > I really like how this list encourages introductions of people that > are new to > the development community. It's nice to see where other people are > coming from. > > A few years ago, I started working on the open source project, > Asterisk > (http://www.asterisk.org). Asterisk is an open source telephony > applications > platform. It is most often used as a typical phone system, but it > is really a > toolkit where we try to make it possible to do whatever you want to > with a phone > call. > > While in school, I started working part-time for Digium, the > company that > sponsors Asterisk. I have been working full time for Digium since > January of > 2007. I now hold the position of Senior Software Engineer, and > Open Source Team > Lead. > > About a month ago, I visited New York University's ITP program. I > was there to > meet people that had done some extremely creative projects that > involved > Asterisk. I was looking for new ideas, or things that I could work > on to make > Asterisk easier to use as a part of a larger creative project. > Whlie I was > there, I briefly met Hans-Christoph Steiner. He gave me a quick > rundown of > pure-data as we walked down the street. We chatted about how there > could be > some interesting applications between Asterisk and Pd. So, I have > been looking > at it since then. > > I have since written a Jack interface for Asterisk so that I can > hook up any > number of phone calls to other applications that support Jack. I > am currently > trying to figure out how to make a Pd patch to do it. :) > > While learning about Pd, I have started making some contributions > to the source. > I have been reading code to learn how things work in Pd. Along > the way, I have > been making little fixes to problems as I notice them. I am > "russellbryant" on > the sourceforge patch tracker. Most of my changes so far have been > little bugs > in string buffer handling. However, I do have one sourceforge > patch pending > that fixes a remotely exploitable stack buffer overflow (marked as > private so it > can only be viewed by project members). > > I'm interested in commit access, if and whenever other project > members would > feel comfortable with it. Mainly, I'm just interested in using it > for smaller > bug fixes that are obvious enough for direct commit. I am now > starting to look > into the implementation of the various parts of existing jack > support in Pd. It > may be nice to be able to work on any larger changes in a developer > branch or > something. (However, before I started committing anything, I would > like to help > draft a patch workflow document, that describes what gets committed > where, when, > and by whom, so that I can ensure that I don't step out of bounds. > Please let > me know if something like this exists, and I missed it.) > > Anyway, thanks to everyone who has contributed to Pd. This is a > really cool > application. I hope that I can contribute something useful to the > project. > > -- > Russell Bryant > > > _______________________________________________ > PD-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- Computer science is no more related to the computer than astronomy is related to the telescope. -Edsger Dykstra _______________________________________________ PD-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev
