Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 09:36:42 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Michael Tran <dublue@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Interview with FreeBSD Developer Joe Marcus Clarke Message-ID: <1145540202.28988.24.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <4011f09c0604200559u65f73e4bt81a30c0c12df7ea7@mail.gmail.com> References: <op.s70203pl9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> <4011f09c0604190430m564757bdh90575c71fa93ff@mail.gmail.com> <op.s79r5qn79aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> <4011f09c0604200559u65f73e4bt81a30c0c12df7ea7@mail.gmail.com>
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--=-668/x38+AT9EwA9KwjiN Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 22:59 +1000, Michael Tran wrote: > Here you go, I've just finished transcribing it. Let me know if you > need it hosted somewhere. > Michael >=20 > ps, don't expect it to be 100% accurate! I didn't know everything > that was mentioned. >=20 > ---- >=20 > Will Backman [0:38] > Today we're speaking with Joe Marcus Clarke and he is a FreeBSD > developer. so i want to thank him for coming on this podcast, maybe > give him an opportunity to introduce himself and explain the different > things you're working with the FreeBSD project. >=20 > Joe Marcus Clarke [0:56] > Thank you. My name's Joe Marcus Clarke. I've been a FreeBSD > developer now for I believe four years. I've been using FreeBSD for > over ten and a half and my main focus [way?] I got into FreeBSD [way?] > was in the committing part of FreeBSD was with the Gnome project.=20 I started using FreeBSD in November 1995. > I > also wear a few other hats in the project: I do work with the port > management team and I do repository work. So repo copies for those in > the FreeBSD know I do the copies of old ports to new ports for > developers. I've also done some minor userland work specifically for > [skiny|skinning] Cisco IP phone telephony in our lib alias, our NAT > gateway.=20 Skinny (used by Cisco IP phones to communicate with the Call Manager). > But Gnome is, still is, and will be my main primary focus in > the project. >=20 > Will Backman [1:45] > And what got you interested in the Gnome desktop? >=20 > Joe Marcus Clarke [1:48] > I guess a funny story I'd... Back in the day, I just transitioned away > from KDE to[Astrastep?] Afterstep [snip] > Will Backman [9:49] > And when you say other desktop development groups, are you hinting at > other desktop environments such as KDE? >=20 > Joe Marcus Clarke [9:55] > Yes. I'm hinting at KDE. There is a Portland project which has been > announced recently. Portland is more for making applications for > desktop agnostics. The Free Desktop Project which sponsors HAL, > sponsors DBUS, and a few other things, is trying to unify the > desktops. Instead of this constant competition and [fight]shedding bike shedding > and wars over whose desktop is better. Unifies some of these > underlying things to avoid code duplication and to come up with a best > of breeds for doing some common desktop related tasks. >=20 [snip] > Will Backman [22:09] > Were there any thing else you wanted to talk about related to Gnome or > other projects you're working on? >=20 > Joe Marcus Clarke [22:15] > Well I open partition any listener if they're willing to help out with > the project, we have numerous ways people can volunteer. Our > documentation can sometimes be a bit lacking so if there's people out > there with a creative bug or good at technical documentation, that's > always helpful. And as I mentioned before, getting the HAL (the > hardware abstraction layer) project successfully working on FreeBSD > would be a great win. It's not a silver bullet, it's not going to > make us perfect by any means, but it'll go a long way to bringing in > some much needed.. that cool desktop features of FreeBSD. And just > yesterday, fortunately, one of our team members, Jean Eve, he said Jean-Yves Thanks for transcribing this, Michael. Joe --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-668/x38+AT9EwA9KwjiN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBER45qb2iPiv4Uz4cRAhaqAJ9smB7Tv+GnddsbTRuDboXcX7LdpACfQixq LLcoC7aFp72qBWNEYC37CA8= =U0TX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-668/x38+AT9EwA9KwjiN--
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