[gnome.org #4520] AutoReply: Application received from Travis Reitter (treitter-dev AT netdrain.com)

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Contact Information:
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Name: Travis Reitter
E-mail: treitter-dev AT netdrain.com
irc.gnome.org nickname (if any): treitter
svn.gnome.org username (if any): treitter

Previous GNOME Foundation member: no

GNOME contributions:
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Summary:
Creator and maintainer of Soylent, Gnome conference participant, general advocacy

Detailed description:
Creator and maintainer of Soylent (http://live.gnome.org/Soylent):
  * GTK+-based application for interacting with people (currently focused on communication)
  * Ties into Evolution Data Server for contact management
  * Uses Empathy/Telepathy for IM communication
  * Plan to integrate with (and help shape) Gnome Online Desktop
  * Will propose for inclusion in Gnome once it is more featureful and polished

Gnome conference participant (GUADEC 2006-07, Boston Summit 2006-07)
  * Organized BOFs on integrating People as first-class objects into Gnome and integrating the Gnome Online 
Desktop, Evolution Data Server, and Gnome desktop applications (eg, Soylent)
  
General advocacy
  * While active in the Cal Poly (San Luis Obispo, California) Linux Users Group, streamlined Linux 
installfests to default to Ubuntu Linux, making Gnome the default desktop for new LUG members
  * Actively supported CPLUG members with Gnome-related questions and problems

Contacts:
Jeff Waugh (jdub AT gnome.org) (Director, Gnome Foundation Board)
Luis Villa (gnome AT tieguy.org) (early Gnome contributor, advocate)
Owen Taylor (otaylor AT redhat.com) (Mugshot/Gnome Online Desktop developer)
Havoc Pennington (hp AT pobox.com) (Mugshot/Gnome Online Desktop developer)
Robert McQueen (robert.mcqueen AT collabora.co.uk) (Telepathy developer/maintainer)
Xavier Claessens (xclaesse AT gmail.com) (Empathy maintainer)

Pointers:


Other comments:
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I have been approached by a student (Sven Pfaller) who would like to work on Soylent as a Google Summer of 
Code project for Gnome (as suggested by Luis Villa on http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2008/Ideas). I would 
really like to be a mentor for Sven in the GSoC, and the Gnome mentor requirements include Foundation 
membership. This would be a fantastic opportunity for Soylent, Gnome, Sven, and myself, and my Gnome 
Foundation membership could make this possible.

Thank you for your consideration!

[Application received at Sat Mar 22 21:28:12 2008 (Eastern time)]

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