Application received from Aaron Bockover (aaron AT aaronbock.net)

[GNOME Foundation Membership Committee Script <membership-committee gnome org>]

Contact Information:
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Name: Aaron Bockover
E-mail: aaron AT aaronbock.net
irc.gnome.org nickname (if any): 
cvs.gnome.org username (if any): abock

Previous GNOME Foundation member: no

GNOME contributions:
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Summary:
Sonance
libipoddevice
GOCBuilder
MixMaker
Mono

Detailed description:
Lead developer of Sonance, a multimedia playback and management platform, written in C#/Mono. It is still 
under heavy development, but is set for a first stable public release by the end of August 2005. Major 
features include a SQLite databaes backend, CD burning, CD ripping, and iPod support. 
[http://sonance.aaronbock.net/]

Developing libipoddevice (see GNOME CVS) to bring native iPod support to GNOME through gnome-volume-manager. 
Plans to integrate with Nautilus. The library makes it easy for applications to interface with an iPod 
without having to worry about boring device details (Evolution to sync calendars/contacts, for example).

Wrote GOCBuilder, which was turned into an Anjuta2 plugin to generate GObject class templates.

Wrote MixMaker, a GNOME application to burn audio CDs from encoded music files. Project terminated in favor 
of a more complete multimedia platform, which is now Sonance.

Actively involved in the Mono community.

Contacts:
Nat Friedman (nat novell com) (heavy interest in Sonance, now a Novell project);

Miguel de Icaza (miguel novell com) (same as Nat);

Larry Ewing (lewing novell com) (helping eachother with iPod support in Sonance and F-Spot (libipoddevice));

Other comments:
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I am enthusiastic about making GNOME more usable, feature complete, and quite simply the best Desktop 
Environment on the planet.

[Application received at Tue Jun 14 16:32:02 2005 (Eastern time)]

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