Hi and welcome to my website. I'm Andrew John Hughes, currently a
PhD student at the
University of Sheffield. This site, however,
focuses on my personal interests, particularly my involvement within
the Free Software community. I started using GNU/Linux in 1998, and as
my sole OS in early 2002. As part of this community, and a developer, I
try and contribute back to those who have given me my freedom. My central
focus over the last four years has been Free Java and the
GNU Classpath project,
along with associated upstreams, such as GCJ,
the Mauve test suite,
Kaffe,
JamVM,
Cacao and
Jikes RVM. I'm now also involved
in the OpenJDK project by virtue of
the Innovation Challenge Awards,
and have also recently being acting as a secondary maintainer to Mark Wielaard on
the GNU Classpath project, being responsible for our last two releases (0.96 and
0.97). I'm due to complete my PhD by 30/09/2008 and am thus looking for suitable
employment; my resume is available here.
I also occasionally make minor contributions to other
projects, as I need to scratch a particular itch: this has
included Wine and
libdvbpsi
in the past. I also have my own projects that I play with
when I get chance, including a port of the
XMMS code
to Gtk+ 2.
Each movie is provided as a Theora video stream together with a Vorbis audio stream using the Ogg container format. Three versions are provided,
suitable for different downloading capabilities: full size (704x576), half size (352x288) and quarter size (176x144). The audio stream is also
provided as a separate download using Speex, which may be preferable if you are not bothered about seeing the visual content. Further details of
these formats are available on the Xiph website. A DVD copy is available on request.All videos are licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative license.
Due to the expected high demand for this talk, we ask that you obtain a copy via BitTorrent where possible. My thanks to those who have provided HTTP and torrent mirroring for this talk.
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