[PD-dev] Introducing myself

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

This is way overdue, sorry it took so long.  Since there are no  
objections, I am adding you now.  Welcome!

.hc

On Dec 17, 2007, at 7:47 PM, Russell Bryant wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I really like how this list encourages introductions of people that  
> are new to
> the development community.  It's nice to see where other people are  
> coming from.
>
> A few years ago, I started working on the open source project,  
> Asterisk
> (http://www.asterisk.org).  Asterisk is an open source telephony  
> applications
> platform.  It is most often used as a typical phone system, but it  
> is really a
> toolkit where we try to make it possible to do whatever you want to  
> with a phone
> call.
>
> While in school, I started working part-time for Digium, the  
> company that
> sponsors Asterisk.  I have been working full time for Digium since  
> January of
> 2007.  I now hold the position of Senior Software Engineer, and  
> Open Source Team
> Lead.
>
> About a month ago, I visited New York University's ITP program.  I  
> was there to
> meet people that had done some extremely creative projects that  
> involved
> Asterisk.  I was looking for new ideas, or things that I could work  
> on to make
> Asterisk easier to use as a part of a larger creative project.   
> Whlie I was
> there, I briefly met Hans-Christoph Steiner.  He gave me a quick  
> rundown of
> pure-data as we walked down the street.  We chatted about how there  
> could be
> some interesting applications between Asterisk and Pd.  So, I have  
> been looking
> at it since then.
>
> I have since written a Jack interface for Asterisk so that I can  
> hook up any
> number of phone calls to other applications that support Jack.  I  
> am currently
> trying to figure out how to make a Pd patch to do it.  :)
>
> While learning about Pd, I have started making some contributions  
> to the source.
>  I have been reading code to learn how things work in Pd.  Along  
> the way, I have
> been making little fixes to problems as I notice them.  I am  
> "russellbryant" on
> the sourceforge patch tracker.  Most of my changes so far have been  
> little bugs
> in string buffer handling.  However, I do have one sourceforge  
> patch pending
> that fixes a remotely exploitable stack buffer overflow (marked as  
> private so it
> can only be viewed by project members).
>
> I'm interested in commit access, if and whenever other project  
> members would
> feel comfortable with it.  Mainly, I'm just interested in using it  
> for smaller
> bug fixes that are obvious enough for direct commit.  I am now  
> starting to look
> into the implementation of the various parts of existing jack  
> support in Pd.  It
> may be nice to be able to work on any larger changes in a developer  
> branch or
> something.  (However, before I started committing anything, I would  
> like to help
> draft a patch workflow document, that describes what gets committed  
> where, when,
> and by whom, so that I can ensure that I don't step out of bounds.   
> Please let
> me know if something like this exists, and I missed it.)
>
> Anyway, thanks to everyone who has contributed to Pd.  This is a  
> really cool
> application.  I hope that I can contribute something useful to the  
> project.
>
> --
> Russell Bryant
>
>
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