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I'm currently a | Some notes about me and what I think about Fedora: | ||
I'm currently a physics PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania. (As an undergrad, I also picked up a CS degree). I've been running Fedora since 2011 and programming in Python for about that long. | |||
I use the KDE editions of Fedora almost exclusively. | |||
I contribute to Fedora because I want to make it easy for other people to install software that I, personally, want to install on Fedora and find unavailable in our repositories. I think that distribution package management is generally the "right" way to install software on a system (which is why I became a packager to begin with). | |||
While I believe in Free and Open Source Software, I think it is important we recognize that occasionally, people want to install nonfree software, or free software unavailable in Fedora for whatever reason. We don't have to endorse third-party repositories, but we shouldn't pretend they are not key parts of the Fedora ecosystem for many users. | |||
=== Contact === | === Contact === | ||
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== Packages maintained == | == Packages maintained == | ||
Note: this may not be a complete list. Check [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packager/tc01/ here] for a completely accurate one. | |||
* The [http://lpg.ticalc.org/prj_tilp/news.html tilp2/libti] stack for communicating with Texas Instruments graphing calculators. | * The [http://lpg.ticalc.org/prj_tilp/news.html tilp2/libti] stack for communicating with Texas Instruments graphing calculators. | ||
* The [https://github.com/adobe-type-tools/cmap-resources Adobe cmap resources]. | * The [https://github.com/adobe-type-tools/cmap-resources Adobe cmap resources]. | ||
* [https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pdfminer/ python-pdfminer]. | * [https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pdfminer/ python-pdfminer]. | ||
* The [https://pypi.python.org/pypi/seesaw/ python-seesaw] toolkit, and its dependency, [https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sockjs-tornado python-sockjs-tornado] | |||
* The [https://midas.psi.ch/elog/ elog] logbook server and client. | |||
== Things being worked on == | == Things being worked on == | ||
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=== Personal wishlist === | === Personal wishlist === | ||
Things I have looked into packaging briefly and intend to have a more serious go at later, but don't exist yet in bugzilla. | Things I have looked into packaging briefly and may intend to have a more serious go at later, but don't exist yet in bugzilla. | ||
* [https:// | * [https://flaskbb.org/ flaskbb], as a nice piece forum software not written in PHP. | ||
* [https://github.com/magne4000/quassel-webserver quassel-webserver], as I use quassel and the web client is quite useful. Although this may require many nodejs libraries. | * [https://github.com/magne4000/quassel-webserver quassel-webserver], as I use quassel and the web client is quite useful. Although this may require many nodejs libraries. | ||
* [https://github.com/fish-face/quasselgrep quasselgrep], as it is the primary tool for searching and querying Quassel backlogs. | |||
* snorenotify, so I can add snore support to Quassel (probably via a COPR build of quassel with snore enabled). | |||
* opam, the OCaml package manager. This was attempted recently but seems to have been abandoned. I'm not sure I'll ever get to working on this. | |||
* discord-irc, a (nodejs) bridge between Discord and IRC. Unfortunately this requires a large stack of nodejs dependencies. | |||
== SIGs | If you happen to be interested in seeing any of the above stuff land in Fedora, let me know! I'd be happy to co-maintain and/or review other people's packages. | ||
== Interests in Fedora == | |||
=== SIGs === | |||
* [[SIGs/Games]] | * [[SIGs/Games]] | ||
* [[SIGs/Python]] | * [[SIGs/Python]] | ||
=== Other Areas === | |||
* As a member of the [[User:Tc01/TI Calculators|Texas Instruments graphing calculator hacking community]], I want to make sure any FOSS software written for interacting with graphing calculators is available in Fedora. | |||
* As an avid Dwarf Fortress player, I would like to see the FOSS tooling built up around Dwarf Fortress (a nonfree but redistributable game) made available in Fedora where possible. | |||
* As a user and occasional contributor to the Quassel distributed IRC client, I'd like to see related utilities made available in Fedora. | |||
Latest revision as of 23:41, 17 June 2017
Ben Rosser
Some notes about me and what I think about Fedora:
I'm currently a physics PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania. (As an undergrad, I also picked up a CS degree). I've been running Fedora since 2011 and programming in Python for about that long.
I use the KDE editions of Fedora almost exclusively.
I contribute to Fedora because I want to make it easy for other people to install software that I, personally, want to install on Fedora and find unavailable in our repositories. I think that distribution package management is generally the "right" way to install software on a system (which is why I became a packager to begin with).
While I believe in Free and Open Source Software, I think it is important we recognize that occasionally, people want to install nonfree software, or free software unavailable in Fedora for whatever reason. We don't have to endorse third-party repositories, but we shouldn't pretend they are not key parts of the Fedora ecosystem for many users.
Contact
FAS: tc01 (I made a poor decision at the time)
Email: rosser dot bjr at gmail.com
IRC: TC01, sometimes TC02 also. You can find me in many fedora- channels, among other places.
Packages maintained
Note: this may not be a complete list. Check here for a completely accurate one.
- The tilp2/libti stack for communicating with Texas Instruments graphing calculators.
- The Adobe cmap resources.
- python-pdfminer.
- The python-seesaw toolkit, and its dependency, python-sockjs-tornado
- The elog logbook server and client.
Things being worked on
Personal wishlist
Things I have looked into packaging briefly and may intend to have a more serious go at later, but don't exist yet in bugzilla.
- flaskbb, as a nice piece forum software not written in PHP.
- quassel-webserver, as I use quassel and the web client is quite useful. Although this may require many nodejs libraries.
- quasselgrep, as it is the primary tool for searching and querying Quassel backlogs.
- snorenotify, so I can add snore support to Quassel (probably via a COPR build of quassel with snore enabled).
- opam, the OCaml package manager. This was attempted recently but seems to have been abandoned. I'm not sure I'll ever get to working on this.
- discord-irc, a (nodejs) bridge between Discord and IRC. Unfortunately this requires a large stack of nodejs dependencies.
If you happen to be interested in seeing any of the above stuff land in Fedora, let me know! I'd be happy to co-maintain and/or review other people's packages.
Interests in Fedora
SIGs
Other Areas
- As a member of the Texas Instruments graphing calculator hacking community, I want to make sure any FOSS software written for interacting with graphing calculators is available in Fedora.
- As an avid Dwarf Fortress player, I would like to see the FOSS tooling built up around Dwarf Fortress (a nonfree but redistributable game) made available in Fedora where possible.
- As a user and occasional contributor to the Quassel distributed IRC client, I'd like to see related utilities made available in Fedora.