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I am Bryce Harrington, I've been involved in Open Source since 1994, Ubuntu specifically for about a year, and mandrake and gentoo in years prior. I am currently focusing on maintaining Xorg, through packaging, bug triaging/fixing, and spec work as Canonical's Xorg maintainer. Thus I am eating and breathing all things X lately. Before Xorg, I Outside Ubuntu, I am one of Inkscape's founders and I enjoy woodworking. :-)

core-dev. packaging, bug fixing, community
My near term intentions are to first get all Xorg packages in Ubuntu up to date (I am working to get the rightmost column of http://people.ubuntu.com/~bryce/Xorg/versions_current.html to be all-green), then work to resolve the many monitor detection / configuration bugs. I'm also planning to work on organizing an X testing community, as several people have expressed interest in helping with this. Beyond that, my plans include becoming a MOTU and then a core-dev member.

Documentation and statistics
 * Created web interface for [http://people.ubuntu.com/~bryce/Plots/ Ubuntu Bug Plots]
 * Coded up [http://people.ubuntu.com/~bryce/Xorg/versions_current.html X Merge Status page]
 * Wrote Xorg Debugger's Handbook: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Debugging
 * Collected Xorg documentation at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/X

 Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BryceHarrington
 Blog: http://bryceharrington.org/drupal/

== Ubuntu Gutsy Contributions ==

Packaging - small stuff, up to xorg, xserver, mesa, linux-restricted-modules
Bulletproof-X
Bug fixing
Monitor resolution detection, xresprobe

== Ubuntu Hardy Contributions ==

 * -intel driver
 * bug triage
 * Screen Resolution tool
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I've helped get a variety of open source projects off the ground, and especially enjoy building successful communities. Most recently I co-founded and help run a project called Inkscape. Professionally, I worked for the Open Source Development Labs building automated test harnesses, web app development, and NFSv4 testing from 2001-2007. Before that I designed spacecraft propulsion systems. Today I'm with Canonical as Ubuntu's Xorg maintainer. I am Bryce Harrington, I've been involved in Open Source since 1994, Ubuntu specifically for about a year, and mandrake and gentoo in years prior. I am currently focusing on maintaining Xorg, through packaging, bug triaging/fixing, and spec work as Canonical's Xorg maintainer. Thus I am eating and breathing all things X lately. Before Xorg, I Outside Ubuntu, I am one of Inkscape's founders and I enjoy woodworking. :-)
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I am passionate about open source and open content communities, and feel strongly that projects founded on a solid community are inherently better than any others. I've been involved in the early stages of a number of these sorts of projects - Mozilla, Wikipedia, OCAL, etc. - I guess I'm sort of an open source entrepreneur at heart. My near term intentions are to first get all Xorg packages in Ubuntu up to date (I am working to get the rightmost column of http://people.ubuntu.com/~bryce/Xorg/versions_current.html to be all-green), then work to resolve the many monitor detection / configuration bugs. I'm also planning to work on organizing an X testing community, as several people have expressed interest in helping with this. Beyond that, my plans include becoming a MOTU and then a core-dev member.
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I've used a number of distros, generally preferring ones that seem to have vibrant communities. I was very impressed by the quality of mandrake's community-supported packaging and used them for about 4 years. From that I switched to gentoo, which seemed the most community-oriented distro at the time. But Ubuntu's combination of community focus, politeness, and good (deb-based) packaging system convinced me that it was far and away the best. I want to help solidify Ubuntu's superiority by strengthening the communities behind it. Professionally, I worked for the Open Source Development Labs building automated test harnesses, web app development, and NFSv4 testing from 2001-2007. Before that I designed spacecraft propulsion systems. Today I work for Canonical as Ubuntu's Xorg maintainer.
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Since mandrake integrated KDE quite nicely, I've had a strong preference for KDE. Despite this, most of my coding experience has been GNOME, due largely to my Inkscape involvement. Ubuntu's good GNOME integration is quickly winning me over, however. Ultimately, though, I'd like to see much of the Gnome or KDE specific things be done at the X level.


== Contributions to Ubuntu ==

 * installation testing of feisty & bug reporting
 * misc bug triaging in launchpad, esp. in xorg

== Goals ==

People judge books by their covers, and for Linux the book cover is drawn on X. Thus I feel that in order to make Linux successful as a desktop operating system, xorg must be improved. In particular:

 1. '''Monitor detection.''' Everyone complains about this. it needs to "just work", including HD and multi-monitor.
 2. '''Xorg testing community.''' Tons of people love fiddling with xorg; if they can be organized into an effective analysis community, we could address a lot of xorg's hardware-specific troubles.
 3. '''Graphics driver project relations.''' Whether it's open source reverse engineer communities or proprietary graphics driver vendors, we need to provide them good testing resources and gain rapid feedback for real issues.
 4. '''Eye candy.''' From beryl/compiz to opengl and other powerful technologies, we have the tools to make Linux absolutely beautiful. We simply need to get organized about integrating these things and making their stability rock solid.		 I am passionate about open source and open content communities, and feel strongly that projects founded on a solid community are inherently better than any others. I've been involved in the early stages of a number of these sorts of projects - Mozilla, Wikipedia, OCAL, etc.

Contact Info

  • Email: "bryce at bryceharrington dot org"

  • IRC: bryyce at irc.freenode.net

I am Bryce Harrington, I've been involved in Open Source since 1994, Ubuntu specifically for about a year, and mandrake and gentoo in years prior. I am currently focusing on maintaining Xorg, through packaging, bug triaging/fixing, and spec work as Canonical's Xorg maintainer. Thus I am eating and breathing all things X lately. Before Xorg, I Outside Ubuntu, I am one of Inkscape's founders and I enjoy woodworking. Smile :-)

core-dev. packaging, bug fixing, community My near term intentions are to first get all Xorg packages in Ubuntu up to date (I am working to get the rightmost column of http://people.ubuntu.com/~bryce/Xorg/versions_current.html to be all-green), then work to resolve the many monitor detection / configuration bugs. I'm also planning to work on organizing an X testing community, as several people have expressed interest in helping with this. Beyond that, my plans include becoming a MOTU and then a core-dev member.

Documentation and statistics

Ubuntu Gutsy Contributions

Packaging - small stuff, up to xorg, xserver, mesa, linux-restricted-modules Bulletproof-X Bug fixing Monitor resolution detection, xresprobe

Ubuntu Hardy Contributions

  • -intel driver
  • bug triage
  • Screen Resolution tool

About Me

I am Bryce Harrington, I've been involved in Open Source since 1994, Ubuntu specifically for about a year, and mandrake and gentoo in years prior. I am currently focusing on maintaining Xorg, through packaging, bug triaging/fixing, and spec work as Canonical's Xorg maintainer. Thus I am eating and breathing all things X lately. Before Xorg, I Outside Ubuntu, I am one of Inkscape's founders and I enjoy woodworking. Smile :-)

My near term intentions are to first get all Xorg packages in Ubuntu up to date (I am working to get the rightmost column of http://people.ubuntu.com/~bryce/Xorg/versions_current.html to be all-green), then work to resolve the many monitor detection / configuration bugs. I'm also planning to work on organizing an X testing community, as several people have expressed interest in helping with this. Beyond that, my plans include becoming a MOTU and then a core-dev member.

Professionally, I worked for the Open Source Development Labs building automated test harnesses, web app development, and NFSv4 testing from 2001-2007. Before that I designed spacecraft propulsion systems. Today I work for Canonical as Ubuntu's Xorg maintainer.

I am passionate about open source and open content communities, and feel strongly that projects founded on a solid community are inherently better than any others. I've been involved in the early stages of a number of these sorts of projects - Mozilla, Wikipedia, OCAL, etc.

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