Hi there, My name is Roman, I'm studying Computer Science and I'd like to participate in the GSoC this year. Also I'd like to do this in a linux audio related project if possible, because I want to help improve the Linux Audio world! So if anyone here is part of or knows an organisation that would like to mentor a GSoC student and have them work on one of their projects, please let me know! My background: I'm a Master student in CS and my focus so far has been centered around operating systems (incl. kernel development), security, concurrency and (hard) real-time. At the University I also took a few signals, systems and DSP courses, so I know what an LTI system is, how digital filters work and what a hilbert transform does. To pay my rent and food I work part time as a repair technician fur electronic musical instruments and equipment and therefore have a background in electronics as well. I'm also a passionate hobby musician and live mixing technician. I know how to write C code that doesn't blow up. I'm familiar enough with C++ to get around comfortably. Recently I started writing an 8-bit microcontroller emulator as a University project in Rust and so far I really like the language. Python is also a very nice language in my opinion. Audio related things I've written include python bindings for the jack dbus interface, a jack application managing tool to start/stop/mute applications via hardware buttons and used mididings to map MIDI CC to Sysex for my hardware synths. I've also written a bit of FAUST code to create a number of effects I want to use. A few ideas and fields I can imagine working on (non-exhaustive, no particular order): - Mididings backend for embedded devices - Polyrhythmic sequencing - Sysex integration in sequencers - Linux kernel work - Emulation of analog hardware (setBfree still needs a nice overdrive afaik ;) ) - jack and/or pipewire Something I'd really like to see someday is being able to sit down at (or stand up with) my Instrument and just jam and when I played something I like, I can go back to, say, 28s ago and extract a few bars and build a song from there. Also I'd really like to hear your ideas and suggestions! :) I'm really looking forward to your responses and hopefully a great collaboration as a result! Feel free to ask any questions, as will I! ;) Cheers, Roman / etXzat