[gnome.org #1908] AutoReply: Application received from Duncan Coutts (duncan AT coutts.uklinux.net)

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Contact Information:
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Name: Duncan Coutts
E-mail: duncan AT coutts.uklinux.net
irc.gnome.org nickname (if any): 
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Previous GNOME Foundation member: no

GNOME contributions:
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Summary:
I am the co-maintainer of Gtk2Hs - the Haskell bindings for Gtk+ & other parts of the GNOME platform.

Detailed description:
For the last several years I have been maintainer of the Gtk2Hs project.

http://haskell.org/gtk2hs/

In that time the original author and I have improved it in many ways:

 * nearly full Gtk+ API coverage
 * improved the Haskell 'feel' of the binding
 * comprehensive documentation
   (semi-automatically generated from the C docs)
 * made it portable to Win32 and OSX.
 * added bindings for other GNOME components:
     Glade, GConf, Cairo, libsvg-cairo,
     GtkSourceView, GtkGlExt, GtkMozembed.
 * tracked the Gtk+ API over several releases
   (we currently bind Gtk+ 2.8.x)

I have helped Haskell users to learn and love Gtk+ by writing documentation and giving advice on IRC.

I was the unofficial supervisor for a Google SOC project to add Cairo bindings to Gtk2Hs. (The official 
mentor was from Google itself)

We're linked here:
http://gtk.org/bindings.html
http://developer.gnome.org/arch/lang/

and our project news feed is included in:
http://planet.gnome.org/news/

Contacts:
Since the Haskell bindings are slightly periphery to the GNOME community (which is something we should try 
and change) there's not any individuals with whom we directly interact.

The easiest way to verify is to look at the Gtk2Hs website:

http://haskell.org/gtk2hs/development/#authors_and_acknowledgements

and AUTHORS file in the source repo:
http://darcs.haskell.org/gtk2hs/AUTHORS

You can see my history of contributions here, though note that the changelog stops at the beginning of the 
year when we switched to using darcs which manages the changelog.

http://darcs.haskell.org/gtk2hs/ChangeLog

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