Mary-Anne's self introduction
Mary-Anne Wolf
mgwmgw at comcast.net
Tue Mar 22 13:16:18 UTC 2011
Hi, I'm Mary-Anne.
I heard about Replicant at Planet Libre just recently,
and I would like to participate.
However, I do not own a smart phone.
I carry a trak phone which is just used for making phone calls,
and mostly sits turned off in my car.
I live outside of Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
I am a very experienced, but unemployed, software engineer,
mostly Java with a little PHP. I used to do C, years ago.
I have used emacs since the 1980's and I have dreamed in C.
I have no mobile experience, and I am thinking that working
on Replicant might also help me to find a job by giving me some,
not to mention overcoming some of the evil things which are done
about software rights on cell phones.
I expect to have more time now than when I get a job.
I am thinking that the relationship between Replicant and Android
will become similar to the relationship between MythTV and TIVO.
As best as I recall, MythTV is restrictive about what hardware it
works with, and TIVO is used by a lot more people. What should we
learn from that?
I have been puzzling over how I can contribute when the usual way
to contribute seems to be testing whether Replicant works on the
smart phone one happens to own.
Is there some wish-list of applications that people strongly wish
existed on F-droid? Maybe I should start there.
My primary computer is a Mac laptop. I also have some linux boxes.
I am okay with any licenses the rest of you agree to.
I would prefer to use Replicant's own logo, not the android one,
if that still needs to be decided.
Mary-Anne
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