[AC] [R21.4] Personal update
Didier Verna
didier at xemacs.org
Wed Sep 19 10:50:18 EDT 2007
NOTE: This patch has been committed. The version below is
informational only (whitespace differences have been removed).
Dear reviewers,
the following patch updates my personal info. Recommended for 21.4.
lisp/ChangeLog addition:
2007-09-19 Didier Verna <didier at xemacs.org>
Update my personal info.
* about.el (xemacs-hackers): Use 'didier instead of 'dv.
* about.el (about-other-current-hackers): Ditto.
* about.el (about-url-alist): Add my musical website.
* about.el (about-personal-info): Update my entry.
* about.el (about-hacker-contribution): Ditto.
etc/ChangeLog addition:
2007-09-19 Didier Verna <didier at lrde.epita.fr>
* photos/dv.png: Remove.
* photos/didier.png: Add.
XEmacs source patch:
Diff command: cvs -q diff -u -t -b -B -w
Files affected: lisp/about.el
Index: lisp/about.el
===================================================================
RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/xemacs/lisp/about.el,v
retrieving revision 1.68
diff -u -u -t -b -B -w -r1.68 about.el
--- lisp/about.el 10 Dec 2005 07:43:05 -0000 1.68
+++ lisp/about.el 19 Sep 2007 14:42:49 -0000
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@
(devin "Matthieu Devin" "devin at xemacs.org")
(dkindred "Darrell Kindred" "dkindred at xemacs.org")
(dmoore "David Moore" "dmoore at xemacs.org")
- (dv "Didier Verna" "didier at xemacs.org")
+ (didier "Didier Verna" "didier at xemacs.org")
(eb "Eric Benson" "eb at xemacs.org")
(fabrice "Fabrice Popineau" "fabrice at xemacs.org")
(golubev "Ilya Golubev" "golubev at xemacs.org")
@@ -178,9 +178,9 @@
(defvar about-other-current-hackers
;; to sort this list or the one below, use:
;; M-x sort-regexp-fields RET [a-z]+ RET \(.*\) RET
- '(ben daiki darrylo dv fabrice golubev hniksic jan jason jmiller jonathan
- kazz kirill larsi martin morioka mta ograf olivier oscar rossini pittman
- scop tomonori tuck wmperry yoshiki))
+ '(ben daiki darrylo didier fabrice golubev hniksic jan jason jmiller
+ jonathan kazz kirill larsi martin morioka mta ograf olivier oscar rossini
+ pittman scop tomonori tuck wmperry yoshiki))
(defvar about-once-and-future-hackers
'(aj ajc alastair baw bw cgw chr craig cthomp dan devin dkindred dmoore eb
@@ -204,7 +204,8 @@
(daiki . "http://deisui.bug.org/diary/servlet/view")
(dkindred . "http://www.cs.cmu.edu/People/dkindred/me.html")
(dmoore . "http://oj.egbt.org/dmoore/")
- (dv . "http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier/")
+ (didier . "http://didier.lrde.org/")
+ (dvljazz . "http://www.didierverna.com/")
(fabrice . "http://www.ese-metz.fr/~popineau/")
(fptex . "http://www.fptex.org/")
(james . "http://www.cs.usu.edu/~jerry/")
@@ -979,24 +980,30 @@
He has a page at ")
(about-url-link 'dmoore nil "Visit David's home page")
(widget-insert ".\n"))
- (dv
+ (didier
(widget-insert "\
-I graduated at ENST (an engineering school in Paris) and have a Ph.D.
-in computer science. I'm currently a teacher at EPITA (another
-engineering school, still in Paris) and a researcher at LRDE (EPITA's
-research and development laboratory). Our research topics include
-generic programming and distributed virtual reality.
-
-Apart from XEmacs, I'm also involved in other free software projects,
-including Gnus, BBDB, and the GNU \"autotools\". I also wrote some
-LaTeX packages (ugh :-).
-
-All of this, actually, is only 60% true. Two days per week, I'm also a
-semi-professional Jazz guitar player (and singer), which means that it
-is not the way I earn my crust, but things may very well reverse in
-the future ...\n\n")
- (widget-insert "Visit Didier's home page: ")
- (about-url-link 'dv nil "Visit Didier's home page")
+Didier has a Ph.D. in Computer Science and is currently working as an
+assistant professor for an engineering school in Paris). He gives
+lectures on Operating Systems, Computer Graphics, Functional Programming
+and Typesetting. His research interests include Genericity, Object
+Orientation and Functional Programming, all in one language:
+
+... Common Lisp.
+
+
+Apart from the world of XEmacs and Emacs Lisp, Didier is also the author
+of several LaTeX packages (FiNK, FiXme, QCM and CurVe) and an occasional
+contributor to other Free Software projects (the GNU Autotools most
+notably; he was one of the technical reviewers for the \"Goat Book\").
+
+But all of this is only 60% true... Two days per week, Didier is indeed
+a semi-professional Jazz guitar player (and singer), which means that he
+doesn't quite earn his crust with it, but things may very well reverse in
+the future...\n")
+ (widget-insert "\nVisit Didier's scientific website: ")
+ (about-url-link 'didier nil "Visit Didier's scientific website")
+ (widget-insert "\nVisit Didier's musical website: ")
+ (about-url-link 'dvljazz nil "Visit Didier's musical website")
(widget-insert "\n"))
(eb
(widget-insert
@@ -1620,18 +1627,17 @@
(dmoore
(widget-insert "\
David has contributed greatly to the quest to speed up XEmacs.\n"))
- (dv
+ (didier
(widget-insert "\
-I joined the development of XEmacs in 1996, and have been one of the
-core maintainers since 1998. Although I'm mostly interested in the
-GUI, ergonomics, redisplay and autoconf issues, it's probably simpler
-to describe what I'm *not* involved in: I've never touched the Lisp
-implementation, and I probably never will...
-
-I'm the author of the multicast support, I wrote and maintain some
-external Emacs Lisp packages (including mchat) and I'm also
-responsible for some of the core Lisp code (including the rectangle
-library which I rewrote for both XEmacs and GNU Emacs).\n"))
+Didier joined the development of XEmacs in 1996, and has been one of
+the core maintainers since 1998. His very first contribution was the
+translation of the tutorial to French. Since then, he has contributed
+various bug fixes and enhancements in fields as diverse as the GUI,
+redisplay engine and autoconf support.
+
+Didier is the official maintainer of some core libraries (rect, cus-edit,
+wid-edit) and the author of the multicast support. He is also the author
+of several packages, including mchat and Patcher.\n"))
(eb
(widget-insert "\
Also part of the original Lucid Emacs development team. Eric played a
cvs server: etc/photos/dv.png was removed, no comparison available
cvs server: etc/photos/didier.png is a new entry, no comparison available
--
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Didier Verna, didier at lrde.epita.fr, http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier
EPITA / LRDE, 14-16 rue Voltaire Tel.+33 (1) 44 08 01 85
94276 Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France Fax.+33 (1) 53 14 59 22 didier at xemacs.org
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