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

nice to see a local lad getting some exposure!


>
> 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
>
> =================================
> 2. Featured Developer of the Week
> =================================
>
> 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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