Rodrigo Moya

I am involved in the development of GNOME, a free desktop environment for computers running UNIX/Linux. I have worked and am working in several parts of the desktop:

• GNOME-DB, a complete database architecture to provide access to several data sources
• GNOME Control Center, which provides UIs for managing the desktop settings
• Evolution, a mail, contacts and calendar application developed by Ximian (now Novell)
• GNOME Hispano, the Spanish-speaking GNOME community

As part of my job at Novell, I am involved in the development of the openSUSE distribution, more specifically on the GNOME desktop part.

After buying a GPS, I came around the OpenStreetMap project, which is a collaborative effort, similar to Wikipedia, but to provide a free map of the world. But not only that, because around those free maps, a lot of software utilities and tools are being developed, to make for a convenient usage of GPS and maps on free software platforms.

For openSUSE 11.0, I worked on integrating the new PulseAudio sound server, which provides lots of improvements over the old esound used in GNOME.

Mono is a free implementation of the .NET development platform specification. I helped a tiny bit in the first stages of the Mono project in the form of some database classes. Since then I have been only an observer, but it's a project I like promoting, specially for newcomers to the Linux world, as Mono helps a lot developers from the Windows world in entering the Linux development world quickly and easily.