The Official Introduce Yourself Thread!

[PaK]

Age, name and where do you come from?
Paweł 'PaK' Kondzior, 20, Poland

What do you do for a living?
1st year of student of compuer science

What are your Skills/hobbies/interests?
Former php freelancer, right now ruby and ruby on rails applications developer, i dont exploit linux for my desktop system, still i'm accustomed to windows, but when drivers for my bcm43xx wi-fi card will be ready i will migrate completely and off course i will use compiz :)

Other comments
I hope input redirection will be available in x.org in really near future :)

[iznogood]

Age, name and where do you come from?
Chriss (iznogood) Kalogeropoulos, 34, Greece

What do you do for a living?
Software Engineer and Team Leader in a Greek software house.
University Degree : Mathematics

What are your Skills/hobbies/interests?
In Computers, i am pretty good at Delphi and PL/SQL. i also write some C/C++. Other hobbies are basketball, hanging out with friends, reading books and watching movies. Linux is a hobby but i have very limited time to spend on it

Other comments
Linux desktop is almost as good as every other OS in small-medium applications.I hope that some major companies will release versions of their software soon (Photoshop, AutoCAD) so that Linux will move fordward faster

[moppsy]

Age, name and where do you come from?
Darryll (moppsy) Truchan, 38, New Jersey

What do you do for a living?
I am an Electrical Engineer.

What are your Skills/hobbies/interests?
My skills include C, Assembly and Unix in general.
I have many years experience with assembly, though I am fairly new to X and x86 programming.
I am the author of the border, bs, neg and put plugins.
My hobbies are auto mechanics, carpentry, guitar, Linux and my Zaurus.
I am interested in science and history.

Other comments
I am impatiently waiting for input redirection support in the X server.

[imnotpc]

Age, name and where do you come from?
Jeff Laramie, 47 (I'm 21 on the inside), Virginia
I'm married with 4 kids.

What do you do for a living?
Owner, Chief WhateverNeedsDoing Officer for a private ambulance service.

What skills do you bring to the community?
Management skills, writing, no formal education but I taught myself enough Clipper, OnCmd, Object Pascal, C++(Qt3, Qt4), html/css/php to be able to create usable programs/pages. My programming skills aren't strong but they do give me an understanding of the development process.

What are your hobbies/interests?
Volunteer paramedic, cycling, bouldering, robotics.

Other comments
I believe Compiz will be the breakthrough technology that makes Linux a household name.

[mikedee]

Age, name and where do you come from?

MikeDee, 29, the dark, wet, windy island in Europe.

What do you do for a living?

I own and manage a few ecommerce sites, since they run Linux it leaves me a lot of free time :)

What skills do you bring to the community?

I started with Assembler, quickly dropped that for Basic. I then progressed through perl to php. I have been wanting to learn and use c properly for a few years, this is my ideal opportunity. Hopefully I can learn a few things whilst playing around.

What are your hobbies/interests?

Coding and driving cars mainly :)

Other comments

Hoping to add a full python/ruby/perl/bash interface to compiz so that non c coders can develop quick scripts to add useful features, hopefully break down the barriers between apps and the window manager. Also patiently waiting for input redirection and all the cool stuff that David and others will do with it.

[gandalfn]

Age, name and where do you come from?
Nicolas (gandalfn) Bruguier, 33, France

What do you do for a living?
I am Software Engineer

What are your Skills/hobbies/interests?
I have many years experience with C, GTK/GNOME and industrial applications.
I am the author of the gnome-compiz-manager and I made unofficial compiz packages for ubuntu.
My hobbies are motor bike, Linux and many others.

Other comments
I hope that compiz and its configuration tools will be so simple that my mom and my wife can install it and use it all alone :P

[RYX]

Name, age and where do you come from?
RYX (pronounced like "ricks"), aka Rico Pfaus, 27 years old, living in Berlin ...

What do you do for a living?
I am a freelancer for website-design and other kind of Multimedia-projects. Sadly, I am more an artist than a businessman - so I always work too much and get too little payment ...

What are your skills/hobbies/interests?
I have starting coding Turbo Pascal as a child. Today, I am mainly coding in ActionScript (with scite and MTASC, cause I hate Flash under Wine), PHP, XML/XHTML. I also have some experience in C, C#, Java, Ruby and (Pure)Basic. I am also quite used to work with blender, gimp, inkscape and other designing-tools (the only thing I miss from windows: Photoshop). My work is my hobby. It needs a very serious reason to get me off my pc. The few moments I don't work I spend with my beloved girlfriend ...

What do you bring to the community?
I try my best to be a good moderator here, I offer to care for the website (or at least support design and development) and I am still working on an improved decorator (though I had not much time for that recently).

Other comments
I am a big fan of Linux and want to support the "movement". The friendlyness and communication among Linux users is one of the most outstanding aspects of Linux and is a great example for a "peaceful together", no matter where somebody is from. The Linux-world has given me a great and stable system for free for the past 5-6 years and I want to thank everyone involved.

(And I tend to talk too much ... :D)

[amgeex]

Name, age and where do you come from?
Arturo Monterroso García (AMGeeX), I'm 19 years old and I come from Guatemala, Central America.

What do you do for a living?
I just finished first year at University, I'm studying Computer Science.

What are your Skills/hobbies/interests?
I'm good at HTML and CSS. I know a little Python and can program well in Java, though I've got no experience with C or C++. I'm really interested in learning as much about Linux as I can. As a hobby I like to play the drums, I need more practice time though. I'm also responsible of documentation over at the go-compiz.org site.

Other comments
I might install Arch Linux later today... or tomorrow!

[Sorcerer]

Age, name and where do you come from?
Hendrik "Sorcerer" Kaju, 15, Estonia.

What do you do for a living?
Nothing really, I'm a student.

What are your Skills/hobbies/interests?
Teaching myself a bit of C. Would really like to learn more about Compiz.
My hobbies are tennis and of course Linux.

Other comments
Waiting for Mesa/Xorg guys to fix the i915 driver so I can play Quake 4 in Linux and dump Window$ for good.

[twigsby]

Age, name and where do you come from?
Christopher, 21, England.

What do you do for a living?
Alternates between freelance Web-Designer, lowly Cashier and part-time student.

What are your Skills/hobbies/interests?
Not really much of a programmer like most of you folks, unless you consider (x)html/css a language. :oops: Spend most of my free time reading and designing whatever takes my fancy.

Other comments
I'm really hating my web hosts at the minute.

[RAOF]

Age, name and where do you come from?
Chris "RAOF" Halse Rogers, 24, Sydney (Australia).

What do you do for a living?
Mathematics PhD student. A geometry consisting of radius 0 circles is more interesting than it sounds.

What are your Skills/hobbies/interests?
Some atrophied C/C++ and Java skills. A little C#/mono. I wish you could write web applets in Python. Official packager, and soon-to-be-actually-active developer of Specto.

I maintain an AMD64 Ubuntu repository, because IA32 rules the world :(.

What do you bring to the community?
I build Gandalfn's packages for AMD64, and sometimes catch problems with his build-deps :). I'd like to code more, time permitting.

I campaign tirelessly against KDEisms. Gnome is the way and the light, and all misguided KDE users must be converted, by the sword if necessary!

Other comments
Syndicate is the finest game ever produced. If you haven't played it, pick up DosBox and do so!

[Jupiter]

Age, name and where do you come from?
Jupiter, 45, live in Texas but am from Puerto Rico

What do you do for a living?
windows admin

What are your Skills/hobbies/interests?
am really a hardware kinda guy "tinkerer" built many server farms
when not working or playing computer racing games am tinkering
with a car... car racing is my biggest hobby including racing 1/8
scale offroad RC nitro buggy's, but also flying RC WWII airplanes
"no i will never grow up...LOL"

Other comments
although i agree nobody has a better middle name than zootreeves
my real name is Jupiter and i named my son Jupiter II
"that's roman numeral 2" didn't want him stuck with "junior"
although everyone calls him "Jup" and me "old one"

P.S. zoot, besides my friend Zenon you have the coolest name
i have ever heard

[flargen]

Age, name and where do you come from?
Matt (flargen) Russell, 18, UK

What do you do for a living?
Student at sixth form, second year

What are your Skills/hobbies/interests?
I know C++, a bit of Python and Ruby and a good deal of HTML and CSS. I enjoy using Ubuntu as my primary OS with compiz. I also like playing the drums.

Other comments
I really hope that Compiz is chosen as the default for Ubuntu

[amgeex]

Hey! I play the drums too!!! :D

[apoclypse]

Hi guys,

I was a huge compiz supporter back when quinn and them had their version. As of late I find beryl tedious and so I joined the true compiz. I also didn't like the responses I got back when I used to complain about how unstable beryl was. That pissed me off the most. Anyways, I think i'll stick with compiz.

[imnotpc]

The code may be stable but I'm not sure all of us are. However we are passionate and enthusiastic and that counts for something. Welcome back apoclypse!

[apoclypse]

Thanks! Its nice to be back to where it all started. I'm old school like that.

[jesper]

Age, name and where do you come from?
Jesper, 19, The Netherlands

What do you do for a living?
Studying mechanical engineering (second year now), watching my bank account getting skimmed :evil: and building sites.

What are your Skills/hobbies/interests?
Skills -> PHP/ bit of everything else. Hobbies: Demolishing things, tinkering with stuff, rebuilding stuff. Interest: engineering, computers (DUH) and girlfriend.

Other comments
Hi!

/edit: I see a more Linux centric note is common. All my favourite closed source stuff works on it (Maple 10, Pro/E and Matlab). And nothing beats Amarok. Oh and I would like to see compiz support motif and my GIT Xserver drivers not being so buggy as they are now.

[Matias]

Age, name and where do you come from?
22, Matías (obviously) Iturburu, Córdoba (the middle earth)-Argentina

What do you do for a living?
I'm a graphic/web designer and web developer.

What are your Skills/hobbies/interests?
Skills: well it would be coding for the net, xhtml and css standards. I spent some time with flash and actionscript and I found It the best and most beautifull language ever.
Hobbies/Interests: I play the bass, I like to read anything (specially nice controversial threads (http://forum.go-compiz.org/viewtopic.php?t=249)).

What do you bring to the community?
Nothing really just some problems and few ideas
(ROAF, I'm with you on the GNOME crusade, count on me to convert by sword some KDErs)
Other comments
nothing more.

[stjepan]

Age, name and where do you come from?
15, Croatia (a small country in the middle of Europe :))

What do you do for a living?
I'm a student (a grammar school, 1st grade).

What are your Skills/hobbies/interests?
C, C++, Linux, School :D

What do you bring to the community?
I don't know. I sometimes help other, sometimes I find something new, always something happens :)

Other comments
Keep up the good work :)

[Wingman]

Age, name and where do you come from?
17, Michele 'miky', Italy (i can't realize that i'm the 1st italian posting here :shock: )

What do you do for a living?
I'm on the 3th year of high school (scientific lyceum, i don't know if it's said as i wrote ^^')

What are your Skills/hobbies/interests?
I tried to learn C language, but it bored me too much!! XD Actually I'm a forum board administrator for a P2P italian website. I installed linux only since 1 year and i love it! I like customizing it and sometimes i partecipate in desktop contests, trying to make my linux-box as simple as possible. that's why i prefer compiz. My hobbies are riding on motorbikes, computer tuning and of course girls! :D

Other comments
I don't know why some people wants linux to be the most used platform on desktops. I think that the linux's best think is its difference from other OS, so why making it similar to them?? Oh i almost forgot... forgive my english!! :oops:

[ShakaGoldSaint]

Age, name and where do you come from?

21, Eleazar, Barquisimeto - Venezuela

What do you do for a living?

I'm in 8th semester of Electronic Engineering. I teach Math, Calculus and Physics and code for food/money

What are your Skills/hobbies/interests?

A little bit of C/C++, PHP and Javascript. Microcontrollers programming... and blah blah blah...

What do you bring to the community?

So far, absolutely nothing :roll:

Other comments
Fanboys... si que son una cosa seria, si ves a uno en algun sitio ten compasión de él y no pierdas tu tiempo discutiendo.

[Vasek]

Age, name and where do you come from?
Václav (Vašek) Potoček, 21, Prague - Czech Republic

What do you do for a living?
Studying Mathematics, Physics & Quantum Computers for the third year

What are your Skills/hobbies/interests?
Programming languages: C, Perl and recently Python (+ slowly forgetting Basic/VB/VBA, Pascal, C++, Java, Java ME, Tcl)
Libraries: GTK+ and related, OpenGL, GStreamer, (USB HID, Windows GDI see above), trying to learn a bit of Xlib
Other / Mix: HTML, CSS, TeX & friends, Bash, POV-Ray, Maple
I don't know anything mentioned well enough to call myself a programmer, but I hope I can learn the remaining details quickly enough to use it actively. I also have no experience in real programming-related techniques like debugging, packaging or versioning.
Hobbies: school, learning new things, playing guitar, electronics, my dog, money :)

Other comments
- missing really nothing from Windows on my computer
- happy Fedora, GNOME & compiz user
- antimilitarist frustrated by current world development
Thanks for this thread, I have always wished to learn something about all the nice people I meet here.

[Amaranth]

Age, name and where do you come from?
spaTravis Watkins, age 20, from Iowa, United States

What do you do for a living?
spaCurrently inbetween being a student and working (ie unemployed).

What are your Skills/hobbies/interests?
spaSkills: C, C++, Python, PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript, C#
spaHobbies: Video games, reading, jogging, programming :)
spaInterests: programming, science, science fiction

What do you bring to the community?
spaI port plugins from beryl, do a little plugin work, and have a couple other ideas that might end up getting done. :)
spaOh, and I'm an Ubuntu Member and wannabe ubuntu-dev. I talk to people on their desktop team a lot.

Other comments
spawoohoo, Compiz in Ubuntu :)

[smithjd15]

James Daniel Smith, age 24, Edmonton Alberta Canada

Student, University of Alberta

Skills: Nunchucks, PHP (Intermediate), HTML, CSS, Javascript(Beginner), MySQL(Intermediate), Linux (Advanced), UI efficiency (not just critical, actually considerate...I prefer Kiosk to Gconf and that should be enough said from both a users and engineers perspective), and I can dress myself almost every day of the week.

Hobbies: Linux, Unified Field Theory, dictating to open-source projects and companies what I'd like to see done from my comfortable chair with no arms.

What do you bring to the community?

Web site design and input, and hopefully down the road a little help in designing the Compiz (yes, Compiz, not Comquinn or Beryl) UI and possibly some input on new features; a artists work is never done as he's constantly striving for efficiency and the most expressive and efficient way to get a point across. Interface design is art. (Insert something about Apple's multi-colored forbidden fruit here and the fine Mona Lisa)

Comments:
I LOVE the green rain! Smith was the great re-balancer.

[ardya]

Rick Dicaire, 45, USA

Doorbuilder/Cabinetmaker

Rock guitarist/composer/recording

http://linux.ardynet.com Linux related stuff
http://www.ardynet.com Music and pics

[wfarr]

Age, name and where do you come from?
Will Farrington - 17 - Atlanta, GA, USA

What do you do for a living?
I'm a student. I teach private music lessons though.

What are your Skills/hobbies/interests?
I listen to more music than I have time to - all sorts of good stuff out there. I also like writing music, of course.

Beyond that, I obviously help manage the web assets of the Compiz project and its community - such as this forum. I do some Python and Ruby programming on the side. I'm very proud to be a co-developer of the Dieu project.

I'm also a big reader. I've read many of the classics, and am making it a point to read the one's I have not.

Using Linux for just over a year now. Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE - you name it!

Other comments
I'm a big fan of being respectful to one another.

[ardya]

Age, name and where do you come from?
Jeff Laramie, 47 (I'm 21 on the inside), Virginia
I'm married with 4 kids.

What do you do for a living?
Owner, Chief WhateverNeedsDoing Officer for a private ambulance service.

What skills do you bring to the community?
Management skills, writing, no formal education but I taught myself enough Clipper, OnCmd, Object Pascal, C++(Qt3, Qt4), html/css/php to be able to create usable programs/pages. My programming skills aren't strong but they do give me an understanding of the development process.

What are your hobbies/interests?
Volunteer paramedic, cycling, bouldering, robotics.

Other comments
I believe Compiz will be the breakthrough technology that makes Linux a household name.


Kurgans Bane Jeff Laramie?!?!?

[Deciare]

Age, name and where do you come from?
Alyssa Hung, 27, Ontario, Canada.

What do you do for a living?
Parts returns processing at a consumer electronics company.

What skills do you bring to the community?
The ability to consistently exceed the (former) 5000-character posting limit. ;)

I like to help people. On this forum, that involves offering technical support, sometimes highly technical support about subjects about which I could only speculate prior to research, offering insight into other people's ideas, livening up discussions that never got off the ground, and tidying up the posts in the FAQ forum.

The wiki may eventually supplant the articles that used to belong in the FAQ forum, though, so I expect I'll be helping with that too. I'm involved in structuring the wiki, as well. :) I'm very concerned with eloquence and clarity in language, so I hope you'll find it a pleasure to read.

What else? I contribute daily builds to the x86_64 branch of nesl247's Compiz Fusion git repository for Arch Linux. I help people determine whether their problems are actually bugs, and file my own detailed bug reports. I like to keep our guests and regulars entertained on IRC.

What are your hobbies/interests?
I am the administrator of my significantly Linux-dominant home network, with a dash of Windows VMs mixed in for flavour.

I like taking photographs, but I don't take pictures of people. Rather, pictures of lighting conditions, lighting arrangements, objects, and scenery are much more appealing to me. I've been told that I have an artistic eye for portraying ordinary objects from fascinating perspectives.

I have six vase-shaped candles (complete with artificial flowers and soil) in different combinations of colour, which I rearrange to match the mood. I change the theme on my computers quite frequently, too, to flow with the seasons, the atmosphere, and random flickers of inspiration.

I used to be a proof-reader and part-time Japanese-to-English translator for TouhouWiki. My work has made it into English-patched versions of the Touhou game series.

Other comments
My interests tend to change a lot. I often look back at chat logs and forum posts from a year ago and muse about how much I've changed. Hearing, "You haven't changed," from an old friend would be like... An insult, or something. XD

I am almost certain to edit every post I make at least once a short time after posting it.

[delfick]

Age, name and where do you come from?
18 years old
I have many nicknames, but stephen is my real name
I come from Australia :D

What do you do for a living?
Checkout person at woolworths.... (annoying casual work)

What skills do you bring to the community?
well, untill this forum, i've just been a fairly involved user of compiz, and a very frequent visiter of the forum (1500 posts in the compiz.net forums (before the harddrive crash that killed it) and 1000 posts in the beryl-project forums (before it was closed))

but now i'm a mod, so i hope to bring a bit more the community :D

What are your hobbies/interests?
don't really have any

Other comments
My custom title of "Crazy Guy" originates from the compiz.net forums when iXce gave it to me (let's just say at the time it was well deserved :P, not so much anymore, i've calmed down slightly :D)

And i'm currently going to university to become an engineer (in first year now, so i don't choose what exact branch of engineering i'll do untill the end of the year, but at the moment I'm thinking of doing software engineering, so one day I might even be a dev for compiz (don't really know how to program yet except for some actionscript))

and have a look at my flashbsm :D http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showthread.php?t=2922
(isn't complete yet, but one day it might be)
....

[SmSpillaz]

Age, name and where do you come from?
Sam - I go by many pseudonyms... or however you spell it :P
Age - 16 and kicking ass
I come from the land down under! (Insert the rest of the lyrics here) :D

What do you do for a living?
Study. And go to school. Man that sucks :(

What are your Skills/hobbies/interests?
I love journalism and the media.
My skills are basically doing ok at school :P. And public speaking / debating.
My main interest is compiz, because its one of the only super-mega-awesome-absolutely-jaw-dropping-oh-my-god-i-want-that things I can actually use and enjoy.

Other comments
Well, I don't write the official Compiz Fusion blog, but I do write a temporary 'Weekly News' blog which can be found here (Plugging FTW!) (http://smspillaz.wordpress.com)

I'm also interested in helping out with the users. However, I live in a different timezone than most of you, so most of the problems are usually solved when I log on! Then people are asleep when I'm ready to solve problems! *sigh*

[delfick]

what side of Australia you on
the best side, like me, on the west :D
or the other side ??

[SmSpillaz]

what side of Australia you on
the best side, like me, on the west :D
or the other side ??

The best side of course! (WA)

What uni do you go to btw?

[av-club]

Age, name and where do you come from?
21, David, a nice area called bradenton, fl....located directly in the center of a inbred pseudo-Freudian hell.

What do you do for a living?
feed off of others.

What are your Skills/hobbies/interests?
guitar/bass/synth/record/and as of late...LINUX!

Other comments
i am on this forum to thank the creators of this software, as it has given new purpose to my lame pc, making it look ¨nifty¨ but also to figure out why i cannot type apostrophes correctly since installing version 0.5.2! :-)

[delfick]

The best side of course! (WA)

good to hear :D :P

you in perth ??

What uni do you go to btw?

curtin university :D
http://curtin.edu.au/

:D

[darkhole]

Age, name and where do you come from?
Julián Alarcón, 20 years ooold , Colombia

What do you do for a living?
Student of System Engineering (Universidad Nacional)

What are your Skills/hobbies/interests?
I like so much software libre.. and like a lot DB's... (MySQL rules!!!.. jeje)

Other comments
I can't use compiz, beryl or compiz fusion... Maldita video card...

[Fyda]

Age: 19
Name: Wendy Lin (but I largely go by "Fyda", which I prefer)
Country: Canada (although I was born in Taiwan)

What do you do for a living? I'm entering my 3rd year as a Linguistics major.

What skills do you bring to the community? Hrm. This is asking me to boast, and I find that somewhat hard to do, especially as I'm not a programmer -- just a, er, enthusiastic user. ;)

Well, let's see... I'm a member of the Support Team, which (as I see it) means I am one of the designated Answerers of Questions, Cleaners-Up of Threads, and Occasional Assistants to the Admin. I frequent #compiz-fusion, and occasionally do a little copy editing or testing, if it's asked of me. All of this is an honour and a pleasure, and I only hope that my efforts are satisfying to those whom I serve (that is, the users!).

So far, I've only written one significant guide (the one for compiling from GIT on Ubuntu Feisty), with a lot of help from others (which would make me more of a presenter than an author, in my view). I hope to be more involved with the upcoming wiki and the blog, as well as helping out on the bugtracker and wherever else I can. I'm also on the team for gavintlgold's FusionCast blog.

What are your hobbies/interests? I'm aspiring to have a good grasp of at least five languages (besides English and Mandarin), so that I can be a flexible translator and author -- perhaps even a language instructor/tutor, someday. Additionally, I would love to be a technical writer for products that are sold internationally, because I like to help people, like to write descriptions, like to figure out how things work, and have read some astoundingly unintelligible product manuals. :D

I feel it is very useful to have at least some basic knowledge of several languages, particularly on forums like these. Not everyone is a native speaker of English, so I often see people posting direct translations of idioms or structures that don't make much sense in English; it really helps when I can translate them back into the poster's original language and figure out what s/he meant. Sometimes I even try to phrase my English responses so that they'll still make sense after going through a machine translator (because I actually consider that possibility :D)! And, of course, the more languages I can read, the more sources of information I can tap into.

On the slightly nerdier side, I'm interested in the structure and development of language (not just languages), which is why I'm majoring in Linguistics, probably focusing on syntax or semantics. I actually like analysing grammar. xD

Despite my academic dedication to language(s), computers are still my most time-consuming hobby. This might explain why I've spent so much of my time here -- long enough to end up with such a commitment to the project. ;) Besides those two interests, I'm an amateur dabbler in drawing and painting, messing around with an electronic piano, sometimes trying to compose music in a sequencer, and occasionally getting mad flashes of inspiration for fiction and essays (which never reach completion). When I can find the time to, I look for books to devour. (I can enjoy most genres, but mind-numbingly saccharine romance novels are a no-go.)

Other comments: I'm in the Pacific time zone, so the vast majority of the world is hours ahead of me, time-wise. This usually means that everyone else goes offline (to sleep) before me, so I'm thankful for the terrible sleeping habits of some people who stay up till, say, 5:00am. Gives me company. ;)

(Oh, and hi there, Deciare! Did you say something about a posting limit? xD)

[punkrawker82]

Age, name and where do you come from?
25, punkrawker82, North America

What do you do for a living?
Stuff

What are your Skills/hobbies/interests?
Linux, Unix, system administration, MythTV, Mythdora, Compiz/Beryl/Compiz-Fusion, programming, reading...

What do you bring to the community?
ENTHUSIASM, bugs, a shrubbery, and ENTHUSIASTIC BUGS!;)

Other comments:
I wish there were more hours in the day...

[delfick]

which is why I'm majoring in Linguistics,

that's awsome ! :D

I want to be able to speak well in more than one language...

but I doubt that will ever happen..... :(

What do you do for a living?
Stuff

well said :P

[SmSpillaz]

good to hear :D :P

you in perth ??



curtin university :D
http://curtin.edu.au/

:D

Heh, curtinnovation :P

Also, I'd have no chance of downloading a 3GB linux image without paying toll$tra (*cough*telstra*cough*) a bazillion dollars if I lived outside of perth :D

[shame]

Age, name and where do you come from?
33 | shane | Sheffield, England (wheelie bin fire capital of the UK)

What do you do for a living?
At the moment, change nappies, fall over childrens toys and catch baby sick with my neck.

What are your Skills/hobbies/interests?
Don't get much free time but enjoy mountain biking, weight training and eyecandy - of the desktop and female kind ;)
I also like body piercing so I suppose that could count as a sort of skill as well as a hobby/interest.

What do you bring to the community?
I maintain compiz fusion and beryl repos for debian sid based distros.
Started off packaging a few beryl debs for the sidux linux community and learnt as I went along. Had never packaged anything previously.

Other comments
Can't think of anything so I'll add a recommendation - sidux linux

[adamk]

Age, name and where do you come from?
31, Adam, southern NJ, USA, about 20 minutes from Philadelphia.

What do you do for a living?
IT manager for a prepress, printing, and development firm in New Jersey.

What are your Skills/hobbies/interests?
I read, a lot... I enjoy computers... Seeing what I can make them do. I use linux as my primary desktop machine (Feisty at the moment), but I spend a lot of free time experimenting with other distributions and other alternative operating systems.

What do you bring to the community?
Support. That's mostly it. I monitor these boards regularly and can often be found on #compiz-fusion and #beryl helping people out. I've been using linux for almost 10 years now, on most common types of consumer hardware. I've been using 3D acceleration on ATI and nvidia hardware since the utah-glx days, and regularly pull and test the latest code for whatever project interests me, so I have plenty of experience testing software, reporting bugs, and resolving problems.

Other comments:
Not much else to say :-)

Adam

[Leigh123@linux]

Hi All,

My name is Leigh and I thought I would checkout your forum :cool:
I am not new to forums and have been quite active in the last year on Fedora forum.

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/member.php?u=78273

I also helped kagesenshi by building the X86_64 packages for his compiz-fusion repository.
I have also been playing with F8 test 1 and have made some packages for it.

http://www.4shared.com/file/22257787/cf4d8bcd/fusion-f8-x86_64-repotar.htmlNot

much else to say

Leigh

[KilianValkhof]

Age, name and where do you come from?
19, Kilian Valkhof, The Netherlands

What do you do for a living?
Web developer

What are your Skills/hobbies/interests?
web development, skating, beer, and lately linux as well

What do you bring to the community?
for the moment, annoying questions <_<

Other comments
I've been lurking for a while, this is a great community :)

[randall.lefevre]

Age, name and where do you come from?
32, Randall, Originally from Ontario Canada, but moved to British Columbia this spring.

What do you do for a living?
Freelance web application developer. I started programming (Yay BASIC!) when I was 6 and loved it! It kind of made sense to me to do what I love.

What are your Skills/hobbies/interests?
Skills... HTML/CSS/JavaScript/PHP/relational databases, my C is coming back into use thanks to Compiz. on the contrary, whenever I observe someone using Windows
Hobbies... Well recently, Compiz! I've used Linux as my sole OS for almost 4 years. I don't miss Windows--AT ALL. It's always amusing to watch people in airports/bus terminals/train stations struggling with Windows based PCs.
Interests... Recently, what interests me most is grabbing a beer and sitting on the patio with my notebook. Mech anime, older movies (pre 2000), going for hikes with my wife.

Other comments
Quack, quack :)

[ai_ja_nai]

Age, name and where do you come from?
24, my name's Alberto, I'm from Rome in Italy =)

What do you do for a living?
Well, actually I live in my birthhouse with my parents, but I'm going to get a degree in Computer Science in the next year

What are your Skills/hobbies/interests?
My hobbies are dancing (salsa), playing drums, listen to jazz and heavy metal, getting my sight mauled in front of the computer trying to get compiz/beryl working with my shitty ATI card ;) and... GIRLS!!

Other comments
Hi everybody ;)

[Moncader]

Age, name and where do you come from?
Jason Parrott, 19, Quesnel, British Columbia, Canada

What do you do for a living?
Went to BCIT for a year and did Computer Systems Technology, am now working as a Gas Jockey at Shell (:D ) and will be leaving for Japan for at least a year for working, living, and touring on October 29th this year :)

What are your Skills/hobbies/interests?
Programmer, mostly C, but know a little C++, lua, Java, javascript, php, SQL, BASIC and QBASIC (hell ya), biking, skiing, everything to do with Japan, watching Microsoft mess up time and time again and installing Linux on average user's computers :) Exploring the outdoors is great fun as well :D
Other comments
Canadians are great eh? :D heh

[delfick]

Other comments
Canadians are great eh? :D heh

too right :D

[mattgaunt]

Age, name and where do you come from?
19, Matt Gaunt and UK

What do you do for a living?
Im currently im a student at university of bristol studying computer science

What are your Skills/hobbies/interests?
Computers (Obviously) done some programming in C, Java, Haskell, Verilog and html. Also play guitar quite a bit

Other comments
You gotta love Compiz-Fusion :rolleyes:

[()va|_]

24 Philip, Croatia, studying economics (forever :))

Living in Zagreb, with my sister (she has to use ubuntu) :rofl:

Skills/hobies/intrest are : afc computers, hardware support and experimenting (multiple graphics, soundcards etc. in one PC) on linux, enjoying music and traveling to concerts (Aphex Twin, Biosphere, Boards of Canada etc.)

Other comments : Move your body, and do smth illegal :)

[gwrtheyrn]

Age, name and where do you come from?
Danilo, 16, Switzerland

What do you do for a living?
2nd year student of computer science

What are your Skills/hobbies/interests?
playing around with my linux installation, programming (right now only web-languages like php, javascript, asp, etc, and C#, but i want to start with C++ some day...)

Other comments
i hope that compiz fusion will make linux popular for home desktop usage.

[JonathanE]

First of all, is this a introduce yourself thread for everyone? Or just for the developers of Compiz?

Age, name and where do you come from?
Jonathan "Jonis" Ekholm, 17, Sweden.

What do you do for a living?
Student.

What are your Skills/hobbies/interests?
Well, i don't have any friends to hang out with. So playing around with my desktop is what i do most of my sparetime. About skills, i know HTML. But i want to learn how to program, make games on my own and such. Next year i will go to a Media school, like a school about photographing and such things. Maybe TV news too, like a cameraguy or news reporter:D Wouldn't that be cool? Anyway i'm not mush of a interesting person, i tell you. Not at the moment at least.

Other comments
A new computer would be great. Plus better english and a really big harddrive wouldn't hurt. Sometimes when i speak in english i talk like Yoda. Maybe Yoda is my dad, who knows? A harddrive on 4gb and 250mb of ram on a stationary computer isn't mush, but i can live with it. Well, i also want to add that i really hate my nickname:)

[mfolnovic]

Age, name and where do you come from?
Matija, 14, Zagreb, Croatia

What do you do for a living?
Primary School, 8th grade

What are your Skills/hobbies/interests?
Programming in a lot of languages: C++, Pascal, Basic, Logo, BF(brainf**k), PHP, JS, XHTML, CSS, ASM :D

Other comments
Compiz fusion is great :D

[Deciare]

First of all, is this a introduce yourself thread for everyone? Or just for the developers of Compiz?
This is a thread for everyone. Some of us don't even know how to program. ^_^ Invite yourself, invite your friends, invite your neighbours, invite random strangers! ... Well, maybe not the last one. But feel free to talk about yourself here.

[coz]

Hello all!
My name is coz and i am living in US Pennsylvania, and you really dont want to know how old i am but suffice to say i am the oldest of the bunch here :)
I remember when we were debating the creation of dirt so ..... I voted "No" on that issue lol..mm a lot of good that vote did me lol.

I have a small business for installations, repairs, etc for residential and corporate clients, although the corporate end is both slower and a pain. I prefer systems integrations,

I am a certified interpreter for the deaf.. speak no language well :) including english ...I have my degree in fine arts and am a painter when I find the time.. was communication specialist for the board of education for about 5 years,, surprisingly!.. I have also done forensic reconstruction of sculls ..<< wish there was a decent position for that one. Was accepted for a grant by the National endowment to do research on aquisition of cadavers from 1900 to the present, unfortunately the presidency changed as did the national endowment :(
Was a jazz/rock musician for 15 years on the road...now just an Italian guy that loves to eat lol

Other than being on support for compiz fusion.. I have done the snow textures and splash screens for both beryl svn, ( the final splash screens) and the first release of compiz fusion.

I am the first to admit that my graphics and support contributions to this project have been very minor...even with that , I am honored to be a part of this mainly because of the people involved. I have met, for the most part, only bright, easy going, sometimes quite talkative, individuals, but all of them are worth the effort of getting to know. I would even have them over for lunch or dinner<<< that is NOT an invitation lol
adamk..crdlb..isthatall..Fyda..jupiter1tx..amphi.. .ardya..the list goes on.. all of whom have been more than friendly and accepting of this old guy !:) Thanks to you all!

[Aquaman420]

Age, name and where do you come from?
Chris (AquaMan) 23 years of age, currently residing in Pittsburgh, Pa USA.

What do you do for a living?
Build, fix, clean, open, and close in-ground swimming pools, hence the Aquaman!

What are your Skills/hobbies/interests?
The only computer skill I have is the ability to follow the abundance of knowledge a great community like this provides. As far as hobbies go I would have to say linux, compiz, music, recycling, reading, LOST, refinishing furniture, getting high on life, getting high safely in the privacy of my own home (norml for life) ice skating, hiking and trying to convince people in daily conversation that the world would be a better place if everybody got high and watched Koyaanisquatsi followed buy a hefty dose of Arrested Development RIP!

Other comments
That's me in a nutshell. A pool cleanin' pot smokin' peace makin' man. Hot damn that could be a song!!

[Soaa]

Age, name and where do you come from?
Alain 'Soaa' Trinh

What do you do for a living?
1st year student in Industrial Design

What are your Skills/hobbies/interests?
PHP, web standards. MapleStory. Foruming. Skinning, customizing. Quality work.

Other comments
I am the author of the Truglass and Oxygen Emerald engines. :)

[metastability]

Age, name and where do you come from?
David Mikos, 20, South Australia.

What do you do for a living?
Student, 3rd year. Studying physics, computer science, and mathematics. So far I've not been very good at any in particular, but I do hope to change this :)

What skills do you bring to the community?
Proficient in z80 assembler (I'm not sure there's actually a good reason for this though). Dabble in Java, C/C++, Fortran, JavaScript, BASIC.
Some experience with numerical solutions to equations of various types.
Also some (read little) understanding of physical systems.

What are your hobbies/interests?
Programming. Chess. Sci-Fi. All the typical nerd stuff.

Other comments
Glad to be a member of the community-forums of such a great project.

[calmman]

im chris form poland and im 17

Anybody has questions?

[Greedymike]

Hi, I'm Gregor Mir I come from Slovenia and I'm 18 years old

I'm studying economy, don't like it -.-

I actually don't have any hobbies...

I'm new in the Ubuntu/Linux world, or whatever it's called
I actually managed to install some programs, downloaded 3 songs and a movie, I was searching for the command line like for 10hrs lol and I think i messed everything a little bit up because I used the Terminal so many times and tried so many things and then I saw Beryl and was amazed, tried to enable the effects, tried to fix it with various guides with no sucess.
So if there is a brainiac out there that could help me with the basic programs that would make my life a bit, just A BIT, easier, thx!

[neybis]

Hi! I would like to do a little introducing to myself. I'm new to the forums, obviously, but would love to develop for Compiz-Fusion. I'm a Computer Science major and have been programming for roughly 8-9 years but never anything involving OpenGL or anything of the sort. If you have any suggestions as for a place for me to start please let me know!

And check out my website, www.gamezombie.tv

[Otoris]

Sup!

I'm Ethan (a.k.a. Otoris) , and I live in America.

I have just started using Linux the beginning of this year and love it!
I am interested in art, film making, and web design/development.

I hope soon I can learn the programming for Compiz-fusion so I can help put out some plugins.

Otoris

[Blacksite]

Hey, I am new to Ubuntu and so far it took me 10 minutes to figure out how to install pidget or whatever it is but i got it all by my self...lol i definitely like ubuntu more than windows now ive always wanted to take the plunge but there is no support for games, well some support. Thanks for ubuntu and an alternative to gates POS, while im here would anyone like to help me go about installing some themes and the whole skybox thing, if not i can just browse threw the forums no worries, again thanks. Mason