Hi all,<br><br>I also reply a little bit late, but indeed this thread is interesting. <br>On my side I have a master degree in acoustics and a professional background in acoustics and audio signal processing.<br>I previously worked in a society which develops active control systems for room acoustics.<br>
Now I am real time software engineer at Aldebaran Robotics, a french company based in Paris which develops Nao, the europe's first humanoid robot (<a href="http://www.aldebaran-robotics.com" target="_blank">http://www.aldebaran-robotics.com</a>)<br>
<br>Our robot runs under a linux embedded distribution, so I'm very interested by the open source softwares and often use LGPL libraries inside of our code.<br><br>I know that is not a commercial forum, but for those who would be interested, we just launched the Nao developer program.<br>
The aim is to constitute a community of top developers for the robot and to share our developments.<br>You can find more informations about it here :<br><br><a href="http://ognacgnouc.com/">http://ognacgnouc.com/</a><br><br>
This program is accessible only by invitation.<br>I have few ones to distribute, so if you are interested for joining us do not hesitate to contact me.<br><br>Regards<br><br>Vincent<br> <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/11/25 Olivier Guilyardi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:list@samalyse.com" target="_blank">list@samalyse.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Hi everyone,<br>
<br>
sorry, I'm a bit late here, but I wanted to answer on this thread.<br>
<br>
On 11/10/2010 09:52 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:<br>
<div>> On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 21:31 +0100, Philipp Überbacher wrote:<br>
<br>
>>> The reason I ask this is because I am curious about what kind of<br>
>>> backgrounds a free software developer has. As for me, I am a student<br>
>>> majoring in Music and minoring in Computer Science. I got the idea of<br>
>>> writing this email, actually, because Google had an internship panel at<br>
>>> my school. Google just loooooves open source and those involved. It<br>
>>> sounds like Google has quite a friendly and cooperative working<br>
>>> atmosphere, and they treat their employees very well. Yeah, I'd like to<br>
>>> work for Google, but who doesn't right? :)<br>
>>><br>
><br>
</div>> it's true, among other things they created an atmosphere that please the<br>
> needs of highly gifted people and it's no fun to work in an 'averaged'<br>
> atmosphere when you aren't 'normal'. Indeed a 'subtle' trick to catch<br>
> 'unwanted' people.<br>
<br>
I recently met someone who worked at Google and she said that she indeed had a<br>
lot of freedom, and could choose the projects she worked on. For what it's worth..<br>
<br>
> OTOH it's your choice to shit on ethics ;), because Google shits on<br>
> ethics.<br>
<br>
Well, ethics and big companies are maybe not the best friends. But Google<br>
sometimes gets above the crowd, as recently in the suit against Oracle:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20101111114933605" target="_blank">http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20101111114933605</a><br>
"Each of the Patents-in-Suit is invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 101 because one or<br>
more claims are directed to abstract ideas or other non-statutory subject matter."<br>
<br>
About myself, I have been self-employed for about 10 years, at my own little<br>
company, which is mainly comprised of myself, a few interns from time to time,<br>
and working with other small companies or freelances here in Paris.<br>
<br>
I only do software development, and for a few years now I have mostly done audio<br>
related development. And yes, it pays the bill.<br>
<br>
I also do music and have quite a lot of artistic and not-so-artistic projects<br>
maturating in the lab, which usually involve both music and software<br>
development. Free software is everywhere here, it's my culture, but I'm no<br>
fanatic. I think there's enough room in the world for other approaches, and that<br>
it can all be complementary.<br>
<br>
--<br>
<font color="#888888"> Olivier<br>
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