Application received from Luca Padovani (lpadovan AT cs.unibo.it)

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

Contact Information:
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Name: Luca Padovani
E-mail: lpadovan AT cs.unibo.it
irc.gnome.org nickname (if any): luca
cvs.gnome.org username (if any): luca

Previous GNOME Foundation member: no

GNOME contributions:
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Summary:
* Development and maintenance of gtkmathview
* Development and maintenance of gdome2
* Development and maintenance of OCaml and C++ bindings for gdome2
* Development and maintenance of the Bonobo control for gtkmathview

Detailed description:
* Developer and maintainer of gtkmathview, a GTK+ widget for displaying MathML documents.

* Co-developer and co-maintainer of gdome2, the GNOME DOM engine which provides a DOM-compliant API on top of 
libxml2

* Co-developer and maintainer of gmetadom, which provides an XML-based framework for the automatic generation 
of DOM bindings based on gdome2.

* contributed to performance improvement of namespace handling in libxml2.

Contacts:
People:

* Daniel Veillard (main author and maintainer of libxml2)

* Paolo Casarini (co-author and current maintainer of gdome2)

Publications:

* Paolo Casarini, Luca Padovani, "The Gnome DOM Engine", in Markup Languages: Theory & Practice, Vol. 3, 
Issue 2, pp. 173--190, ISSN 1099-6621, MIT Press, April 2002.

* Luca Padovani, Claudio Sacerdoti Coen, Stefano Zacchiroli, "A Generative Approach to the Implementation of 
Language Bindings for the Document Object Model", in the Proceedings of the Third International Conference on 
Generative Programming and Component Engineering (GPCE'04), LNCS 3286, pp. 469--487, Vancouver, Canada, 
October 2004.

* Luca Padovani, "A Math Canvas for the GNOME Desktop", in the Proceedings of the 5th annual GNOME User and 
Developer European Conference (GUADEC 2004), Publication Series No 107, ISSN 0806-5942, Agder University 
College, Kristiansand, Norway, June 2004.

GNOME news:

News #7, see http://developer.gnome.org/news/summary/2001_May06-May12.html

Other comments:
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