Hi Kris,<div><br></div><div>My day (and sometimes night) job is a software developer audio related position for Canonical (Ubuntu) on the desktop experience team. </div><div><br></div><div>And most nights and w/ends I play with various improv musicians around London. We (Sonnamble) just released an album at the start of this year. All recorded with open source software ( puredata (with some hand-baked externals), custom controller apps,  Ardour, Jamin )</div>
<div><br></div><div>review of the album:</div><div><a href="http://www.themilkfactory.co.uk/st/2010/06/sonnamble-seven-months-in-e-minor-forwind/">http://www.themilkfactory.co.uk/st/2010/06/sonnamble-seven-months-in-e-minor-forwind/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Alas if I had more time/money I would give more to the open source audio world.  Definitely up for the LAC this year in Ireland though. </div><div><br></div><div>All the best,</div><div>Conor</div><div>
<br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 3:17 AM, Kris C <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:cpczk@yahoo.com">cpczk@yahoo.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi all,<br>
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I understand that a lot of you develop for free software and are passionate at what you do.  But how do you pay the bills?  What do you do for a living?  Are you a student?  Do you do software development just as a hobby, or do you want to make a living doing this kind of work?<br>

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The reason I ask this is because I am curious about what kind of backgrounds a free software developer has.  As for me, I am a student majoring in Music and minoring in Computer Science.  I got the idea of writing this email, actually, because Google had an internship panel at my school.  Google just loooooves open source and those involved.  It sounds like Google has quite a friendly and cooperative working atmosphere, and they treat their employees very well.  Yeah, I&#39;d like to work for Google, but who doesn&#39;t right? :)<br>

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-Kris<br>
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