[gnome.org #9240] AutoReply: Application received from Adrien Bustany (madcat AT mymadcat.com)

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Contact Information:
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Name: Adrien Bustany
E-mail: madcat AT mymadcat.com
irc.gnome.org nickname (if any): webustany
svn.gnome.org username (if any): 

Previous GNOME Foundation member: no

GNOME contributions:
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Summary:
Tracker development, GThumb patches, libexiv patches

Detailed description:
My main contribution to GNOME has been for Tracker (which is not yet a GNOME module, maybe soon ?) as a 
Summer of Code this year. I've been designing a way for Tracker to index remote resources like Flickr, 
Facebook etc. Tracker was already beginning to split the indexer component of the storage component (which is 
being proposed a GNOME module), so basically I coded several standalone indexers that connect to remote 
webservice and pull metadata into the Tracker Store. As these indexers have a lot of needs in common, some 
code is factored into a shared lib (meanwhile, something similar was being developped in Tracker although I 
didn't hear of it... We're now merging the two libs).
This allow applications to see not only local data, but also remote, reinforcing the integration of GNOME 
with remote services.

Earlier (two years ago), I also participated in the Google Highly Open Participation Contest and wrote some 
patches for GThum and libexiv.
For GThumb, I fixed the documentation of the crop tool, and completely rebuild the script launching system 
which was quite limited. It used to be limited to 10 scripts with fixed hotkeys, now you can have an 
arbitrary number of scripts, as well as dynamic hotkeys (and the default scripts names are translated).
I also worked on normalizing the display of metadata between EXIF and XMP. This required patching both GThumb 
and libexiv.

Contacts:
Rob Taylor (rob.taylor AT codethink.uk) (has mentored my GSOC)
Alberto Ruiz (aruiz AT synaptia.net) (has worked with me on Tracker)
John Carr (john.carr AT unrouted.co.uk) (has worked with me on Tracker)
Richard Hughes (richard AT hughsie.com) (I work with him on PackageKit)

Pointers:


Other comments:
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I'd also like to quickly present the rest of my work, in the non GNOME world :
- I'm the maintainer of the PackageKit Qt bindings, for almost 2 years now (working with Daniel Nicoletti, 
the developper of KPackageKit). Yes, I'm a GNOME user, and I develop KDE software sometimes...
- I've been working last summer on KDE-Nepomuk (what ?? more KDE software ??). This gave me a good insight on 
what the semantic desktop is about, and gave me the will to develop it for GNOME :)

Oh, and I have two GNOME t-shirts ;-)

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