Contacts
LinuxMCE is a media centered Linux distribution. It's built on the solid foundation laid down by debian and Ubuntu. But with all kinds of goodies for the home of the future, from digital video recorder capabilities and home automation to functioning as a telephone switching hub for your home in lieu of a boring intercom system; all tied together by an advanced messaging infrastructure. While the next release 0810 is almost done and focuses on stability, we're already planning for the next release and you could contribute to it's direction. We're always looking for developers and maintainers to join the team.
Core Team
Daniel Kristjansson -- contact: danielk -at- cuymedia (.net)
Responsibilities: Community liaison, organizing open source volunteers and roadmap
Thomas Cherryhomes -- contact: thom.cherryhomes -at- gmail (.com)
Responsibilities: Hacking, Coding, Media Plugins/Players, Orbiter Development, HA Designer specialist.
Harald Klein -- contact: hari -at- vt100 (.at)
Responsibilities: sqlCVS maintenance, JavaMO, open ZWave driver, testing
Michael Stepanov aka nite_man -- Contact: stepanov.michael -at- gmail (.com)
Offering: Build and test SDL Orbiter for Linux-based PC and Nokia770/N800/N810, Russian translation, testing and feedback.
Pete Kalogiannis -- Contact: pkalogiannis -at- gmail (dot) com
Offering: Insteon Integration
Jon Decker (aka jondecker76) -- Contact: jondecker76 -at- windstream (.net)
Offering: CM11A Driver support and integration, Lighting_Plugin maintenance and upgrades, Climate_Plugin and maintenance and upgrades, Web Admin maintenance and upgrades
Dan Damron -- Contact: dan.damron -at- techengine (dot) ca
Offering: Insteon Integration via PLM (In OPEN beta test now!) / EZBridge/EZServ, PLCBUS Integration
Derrick Lewis aka dlewis -- Contact info: dlewis (at) linuxmce (dot) org
Responsibilities: Forum Moderator and Evangelist
Colin Jones aka colinjones -- Contact info: colin_a_jones (at) hotmail (dot) com
Responsibilities: Forum Moderator and Evangelist
Roguen aka JimmyGosling(Forums), JimmyGos (IIRC) or TheGos (IIRC) -- Contact: Roguen (at) garage68 (dot) com
Offering: code development, wiki documentation
Offering help
Right, having looked at the detail in this post [1] i felt its time to see what we are made of as a community, please add your details.
GUIDE: copy'n'paste the following lines then append them into the table below (prior to the final line that contains '|}'). This formatting should make it easier for the 'big 5' to work out who can contribute what...
| Your username | Your relevant expertise/experience | Your other experience/expertise | Your approx time available for the project | Your time zone or location | Your particular interest area (if any) |-
| Username | Relevant expertise/experience | Other Experience/Expertise | Time available for the project | Time zone or location | Particular Interest Area (If any) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geekyhawkes | advanced newbie | use to some C+/linux/ubuntu/ html / xml / flash | few evenings a week | UK GMT | User documentation, newbie guides, website design , wiki topics and guides. Line by line intros to get 810 up and running regardless of user experiance. |
| qball4 | regular user | HADesigner, graphic design, hardware a/v distribution systems | average 20-40 hrs/wk available | US CST | User Interface, new orbiter platforms |
| Fastie81 | advanced newbie | work with linux/Red Hat/ubuntu day to day / Project Manager / Systems Administrator / Quick Learner | My work load goes up and down so would have few days one week and none another | GMT +12 (NZ) | User Documentation, guides, wiki guides. I would like to learn some coding. Adding Hardware support ,Devices Templates. |
| Techstyle | Advanced Newbie | System builder, Linux newbie, some Wiki writing experience / PMP (Project Management Professional), MBA, Mechanical Engineer, Entrepreneur | 1hr per day | US central (Milwaukee, WI) | Anything structured |
| nite_man | regular user | Integrator, consultant, GSD, Ruby, Maemo Orbiter / More then 10 years of software development - Perl, PHP, Linux sysadmin | 2-4 hours per day | UTC+2:00 Nicosia, Cyprus | Admin site, Maemo Orbiter, posting news, blogging, Russian translation |
| Daballiemo | regular user | Worked my way through Linux/Ubuntu/Fedora mainly on virtualization / Working within MOD and about 15 years of exp. with "paper" documentation | About 3-6 hours a week | GMT +1, Amsterdam | Virtualization and interfacing (webui, remote, keyboard, touch aso) |
| SteveC | LMCE Newbie but keen to get cracking. | Electronics/Software Engr, C/C++ for 15years. | Approx 5 hours/week | UTC+10:00 Brisbane, Australia | Main interests relate to external hardware interfaces eg. Clipsal CBUS lighting, Caddx/Networx Alarm system. |
| Lemming86_au | Advanced Newbie | IT Consultant, Network Engineer, Asterisk Admin (No programming experience, yet) | 3-5 hours/Week | UTC+9:30 Adelaide, Australia | Asterisk |
| castlec | LMCE Noob. Linux regular user/noob | Java Dev, C++ trained (University). | 3-5 hours/Week | UTC-5 Ohio, USA | |
| ZuG | Regular User | Linux, PHP and a bit of C. Very familiar with Asterisk and OpenVPN | 3-5 hours/Week | GMT Cardiff, United Kingdom | OpenVPN development |
| ccoudsi | Regular user | 15+ years embedded hardware design, 8+ years engineering manager, Assembly, C, Perl, Ruby (newbie) | 5-8 hours a week | UTC-08 PT | Security Panels |
| colinjones | Regular User | Bit of bash, some simple coding, learning C++, familiar with the DCE system | ~15-20 hours/Week | UTC+10, Sydney, Australia | LMCE! |
| sp00nhead | User since Pluto days | IT support & Training, want to be python coder, solid knowledge of Linux systems | ~5 hours/week unless i get hooked again. | GMT Crewe, UK | take the LMCE framework and make it as popular as xbmc/boxee! |
| darrenmason | User/Developer since Pluto days, familiar with the codebase and architecture | IT Consultant with Software engineering background specialising in Integration. Have developed in C++/Java and various other languages | Varies depending upon family but can/will find time if interest level is there | UTC+10, Sydney, Australia | New devices, Microcontroller integration, Constrained resources Media Directors, DLNP |
| patricez | Advanced Newbie | Tech addict. Dev Team Manager, have experience in C,SQL,Xen,vmware,citrix,Asterisk,network... | Varies depending my job(s) and family but could be 5-10hrs/week | UTC-5, Quebec, Canada | Home Automation, VOIP, Virtualization, Networking |
| PeteK | User Since Pluto, some development work submitted to Pluto (early Insteon) | Avionics Engineer, Hardware/Software C++ experience | Shooting for 5-10 hrs/week | UTC-8/-7 Mojave, CA, USA | Automation Interfaces |
| davegravy | LMCE Newbie | Electrical/Acoustical Engineer, Project Manager. Java, Assembly, some C++ learned in university. | 5-10hrs/week hopefully | UTC-5, Toronto, Canada | Home Automation, VOIP, Documentation |
| LegoGT | Regular User | EE(CmpE); Hardware design, firmware/software dev; C/C++, Assembly, Java, shell scripting | 10-15 hrs/week | GMT-5 Atlanta, USA | Home Automation, Asterisk, A/V distribution, Embedded dev (drivers, hw/fw, etc.), Security, Maemo |
| TSCHAK | Advanced LMCE Hacker | Polymath, Hacker, Sound Designer, Accoustics Engineer, Software Designer, Programmer, Computer Scientist, Human Interface Design Specialist, Web Application Developer, Domotics Researcher, Professional Musician, Graphic Designer | 18+ hrs/day | GMT-5 Cambridge, MA USA | Virtually Every Single Subsystem. Most of my work however, has been in Orbiter, Media Plugin, and Telecom Plugin/Asterisk DCE Device. I have also written a security panel driver (VistaICM2), as well as a new media type (Game Player), etc. |
| sptremblay | I'm a passionate newbie | I'm a .Net developer. I've done a few Java. It's always part of development "I want to learn something new" | approx 8 hrs/week (I have 6 month old triplets! I'll do my best) | GMT-5 Quebec, Qc, CAN | Anything I want to get my hand in development. |
| Bdfoster (Brian Foster) | Regular User | 10 Years Experiance building computers, know Windows UI well, have used Linux for last 2 years | 2-3 Hrs/Day | GMT+1 (most of the time) | Telecom, Z-Wave, Other Hardware |
| roberto99 (Roberto) | newbie | User and supporter of MS products (not a pro), newbie with Linux and LMCE, some HW assembling and support, nothing relevant really | to be determined | Switzerland GMT +2 | Translation of the wiki/guides/whatever from english to german, if this is of interest (to attract german speaking users from Germany, Switzerland, Austria) |
| Ray_N | Regular User | Software development, Linux/Unix administration and development, C, Java, Intel assembly, MySQL and networking, Documentation, structure/organization, some graphics background/understanding, fluent in Spanish | Less than 8hrs/week :-( | GMT -4 hrs | Media, Usability, Optimization, making it work, seeing LMCE become THE home media system |
