[ccoss] Gentoo Developer of the Week, Luke-Jr


Luke-Jr is the Gentoo developer of the week. I know him because he goes 
to the SCOSUG (www.scosug.org) meetings. He's very young and just 
started college. This was posted on the SCOSUG list, but I'm posting it 
here because Luke-Jr is a resident of Connecticut.

http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20031117-newsletter.xml

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2. Featured Developer of the Week
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Luke-Jr
 
This week's featured developer is somewhat more mysterious than most, 
having declined to provide either a photograph or an IRS-compatible
name. 
We even have to guess at a pronoun, but the fact that Luke-Jr[3] is a 
Computer Science student at Tunxis Community College[4] indicates that
it 
is likely he is a resident of Connecticut in the U.S. In Gentoo's
virtual 
community, Luke-Jr works to bring "Gentoo to every computer user" by 
working on tools like a newbie-friendly graphical installer. He may also
end up taking over KPortage[5], unless some other willing soul appears.
He 
is currently working on developing BitTorrent[6] based tools for 
distributing things like LiveCDs and stages. 

 3. luke-jr@xxxxxxxxxx
 4. http://tunxis.commnet.edu/
 5. http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/kportage/
 6. http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/
 
Luke-Jr has been using Linux since Red Hat 5.2 and later switched to a 
packageless manual compile system. He moved to Gentoo over a year ago
when 
he began to feel the pain of keeping his system up-to-date. After
spending 
some considerable time at the Gentoo booth at LinuxWorld Expo in January
of 2003, he began to consider forking Gentoo to create a more 
newbie-friendly version. Upon discovering that the existing Gentoo 
developers had no objection to adding those tools to the existing
distro, 
he began working as a Gentoo developer. 
 
Luke-Jr has a fair bit of experience in Open Source development. He was
a 
primary developer on the Open Direct Connect[7] file sharing program as 
well as working on the Kye[8] puzzle game (which he plans to port to
QT), 
MOO extensions and Tasogare[9], a multiplayer online RPG engine. He was 
particularly pleased with $phone, a MOO extension that allowed users to 
call virtual phone numbers on other MOOs, and the accomplishment of 
rewriting the Kye engine. Nevertheless, he considers Gentoo his "primary
job", describing it as "the best operating system that currently
exists". 

 7. http://sourceforge.net/projects/odc/
 8. http://sourceforge.net/projects/kye/
 9. http://sourceforge.net/projects/tasogare/
 
Luke-Jr is a KDE[10] user, largely because of the window manager, 
Konqueror, Kontact, Konsole and the Kicker (although he would consider 
dropping the last if someone would port the OSX taskbar). His favorite 
applications include Qt Designer[11], Mozilla Composer[12] and Psi[13]. 

 10. http://www.kde.org
 11. http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/designer.html
 12. http://www.mozilla.org/
 13. http://psi.affinix.com
 
Luke-Jr's favorite quote comes is one of Richard Stallman's comments on 
proprietary software: "It was useless for a community." In that vein, he
made a plea for people to shift away from obsolete or closed IM
protocols 
toward the open and standardized Jabber/XMPP. He also points out that he
has made the  hex time [14] display from his  screenshot[15] available 
with emerge khexclock. 

 14. http://www.intuitor.com/hex/hexclock.html
 15. http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/shots.xml


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