Carandraug

I got involved with Octave on the Winter of 2010, at the end of my first year as PhD student. My project involved using a Matlab piece of code written by a collaborator but I refused to use it, I wanted free software. So I convinced the collaborators to release it under GPL and ported it to Octave (released as [https://github.com/af-lab/frapinator frapinator], but I really should go back and write it properly).

 

Since then, I have contributed to Octave many times, became maintainer of the Octave Forge project and its image package. While I have no formal education in programming or computer science, it was the freedom of Octave and its community that allowed me to learn so much.

:: I am a PhD student in Biochemistry and Bioinformatics, doing microscope image analysis and automatic catalogue and curation of biological data on online databases. I have taught myself own to program by scratching my own itches. I believe in software freedom which allowed me to learn much more than I could otherwise.

:: While I keep a constant flow of code contributions to free software (a week without activity somewhere is very rare), they are mostly small fixes. I will apply for a job of software engineering after my PhD and want the experience of being involved in a large plan with a well defined goal. This will also allow me to gain experience with C++, something that I have been delaying for too long and will give me scratch access to a whole new world of itches. Finally, the proposed project will be a chapter on my PhD thesis, and part of a planned paper on the usefulness of GNU Octave for microscope image analysis.

:: I have been using Octave regularly for almost 3 years and it's relevant for my studies. The project being proposed also has a direct impact on my research work.

:: I live on IST (GMT+1 during the summer) which is very unlikely to change during the summer.

:: I usually work between 12:00 to 20:00 and 23:00 to 03:00.

:: I have no experience with OpenGL or Qt. I have extensive experience with Octave m functions, through my contributions to Octave and Octave Forge in the last 3 years. I have minimal experience with C++, the minimum required for maintenance of some Forge packages. Though I have been improving my C++ lately, I haven't contributed anything useful to the community yet.

::* implemented the {{codeline|citation()}} with {{cset|3a93af21d206}}. This included making Octave's build system, and {{codeline|pkg()}} aware of it.

::* several improvements on Octave indexed images, {{cset|37a21f615d67}}, {{cset|dffb28f47ea8}}, {{cset|7d21456c09d1}}, {{cset|14b7679891dd}}, {{cset|4db08f52a6ed}}, {{cset|89c8d8f8f87b}}.