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* [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. | * [https://github.com/fish-face/quasselgrep quasselgrep], as it is the primary tool for searching and querying Quassel backlogs. | ||
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. | 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. | ||
Revision as of 03:32, 4 September 2016
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 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.
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.