Hi Christophe,
On 8/01/2005, you wrote:
Updated list:
We corrently have the following people available to us:
I see I've been missed out. Just because I come from the other side of the world, blah, blah . . . anyway, here is part of the email I sent Christophe privately, before I joined this list:
I have been an electronics engineer and low-level programmer for 35 years. Now retired (and 60 yrs) I am enjoying myself playing with my A1. I am an OS4 betatester and I am currently translating the old 68k assembler console.device into ANSI C code.
I am most experienced with plain C, written for embedded devices. For instance, I have written the EFI software for my campervan, and designed and built all the hardware. I have not written much graphics code or code using OS3/4 libraries other than the basic CLI libs. At my last job I wrote embedded SW switching audio and data communications signals, and designed the hardware to go with it.
Some years ago I updated the OS3.9 68k port of Kaffe and made the interpreter and JIT engines wok properly. Since then the code base has changed and I will go back to it again when I can build it on OS4. Hopefully some of the new tools will make that possible soon.
I expect to be fully occupied with console.device for the next few months. Possibly around the end of March I will be able to help with coding for OpenOffice.
I am not a Linux guru, but I can find my way slowly.
Management: although I have had some management experience, I am not comfortable in such a position, and prefer to be a "back room engineer". I could assist with one of the teams later on.
Availability: as I said, I won't be able to do much for OO.A for a couple of months. I will be away on holidays for all of February and July.
cheers tony