GNOME &guadec &nerdy stuff reinout | 12 Jun 2010 02:20 pm
5 questions for GUADEC participants
My answers:
1)Who are you and what do you do?
I’m Reinout van Schouwen, age 33. I live with my girlfriend in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. For a living, I develop Java-based web applications for academic use. I studied Artificial Intelligence at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam where I graduated in 2006.
2) How did you get into GNOME?
It started when, at the university in the late nineties, I was looking for a graphical environment to use under Solaris that resembled OS/2′s Workplace Shell. (At the time, I was an avid OS/2 user.) I found that GNOME 1.something combined with the IceWM window manager came close to what I wanted.
Later, when I installed Mandrake (currently Mandriva) Linux on my parents’ machine, I found that the Dutch translations could *cough* use some improvement. That’s how I got involved in the Dutch Gnome l10n project.
3) Why are you coming to GUADEC?
My first GUADEC was in Dublin, and I’ve missed no edition since then except the one in Vilanova, 2006. This year, I am part of the team that won the bid to get GUADEC to The Hague, so naturally I will be there!
4) In 1 sentence, describe what your most favorite recent GNOME project has been.
Without a doubt, that’s Epiphany. I’ve been a contributor ever since the project split off from Galeon and I’m very happy to see that the browser is going through a “second youth” with the switch to the WebKit back-end.
5) Will this be your first time visiting the Netherlands?
I’ve been living here since my birth. 
