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List:       kde-kuml-devel
Subject:    bio (was: Project goals)
From:       Mark Coletti <mcoletti () clark ! net>
Date:       2000-10-31 23:14:23
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On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 11:47:42 +0200, "Baak, E.J.M." wrote:
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> - what's your expertise (education and work)

  A detailed CV is at http://www.clark.net/~mcoletti/me/resume.html

  10 years of C++ slinging and OO/AD.  Have BSc in computer science
and am finishing up my Masters in same.  I'm also working for SAIC on
contract with the US Geological Survey where I'm doing GIS related C++
development.  I'm also a research associate at George Mason
University doing evolutionary computation research.

> - what are your interrests

  Evolutionary computation, Geographic Information Systems, machine
learning, C++, OO/AD, software engineering, and computer graphics.

> - what's your thoughts about GNU projects and open source

  ESR is right, open source is a superior development methodology.
I've no strong opinions regarding free vs. open source.

> - what do you want to contribute to the project e.g. on what part do you
> want to work

  I started working on programmer's documentation (of which
requirements, use cases, and design are a part) because that was
missing in the initial iteration.  These are needed for any software
development project, and so would be especially egregious to be
missing those on a UML software tool.

  I'd really prefer to jump in on the design and some of the
implementation.  I've no particular preference for working on either
the library or GUI.

> - how much time do you think you are going to spend on it (per week)

  Zero to eight hours a week.

> - what do you think is the most important goal we should achieve
> with kUML [...]

  I'm pragmatic.  I want a useful, free UML tool that I can
immediately employ on my other projects.

> - what do you think about the Kde-Gnome discussion [...]

  I think the library should be as desktop neutral as possible.  I
like the notion of Gnome developers leveraging off the same core source.

> - why do you want to support kUML, why don't you support Argo or Dia or [...]

  Argo is unusable.  It's slow, mostly courtesy of Java.  And the UI
is infuriating.  Moreover, it generates many different files, which
makes CVS file management a nightmare.  And it's buggy.

  I currently use Dia for my projects.  Yes, it's a diagram editor,
but IT WORKS NOW.  And I can export the diagrams as encapsulated
PostScript to embed in my LaTeX design documents.  That's important to
me.

Cheers!

Mark
-- 
Mark Coletti | mailto:mcoletti@clark.net | http://www.clark.net/~mcoletti/
"The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by
a word and a comma."  -- Larry Wall

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