PedroGiffuni [FreeBSD WIKI]

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====== Pedro's FreeBSD activities, or a small account of them. ======

Email: <pfg@FreeBSD.org>

My name is //Pedro Giffuni//. I was born in Bogotá (Colombia) but I am of Italian origin and I learned English since at a very young age.

I am a Mechanical Engineer with a M Sc. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh.
I normally work in mechanical engineering/production settings in design or quality control roles.

My personal interest in the BSDs started by the code quality and free license, and eventually I just had a lot of fun with it.
I have been using %%FreeBSD%% since 1997, while looking for free alternatives to do my professional work. I am particularly
interested in engineering applications and anything that has relationship with getting more performance, even if it involves playing with low level stuff like toolchains, libraries or filesystems.

I have contributed a huge amount of ports (more than 200 PRs) mostly for the Math and CAD sections of %%FreeBSD%%'s
ports tree. Curiously I ended up becoming a src committer and not a ports committer in 2011. Lately I have been
contributing to filesystems, particularly ext2fs sources and I also have some interest in security.

===== FreeBSD Development =====

I was heavily involved in ports since 1997, specialiced in the areas of Math, Science, and CAD.
I still do maintainance for some packages that I jusr can't leave behind.

I am a %%FreeBSD%% committer (src) since 2011/12/01 according tho committers-src.dot and my mentor was John Baldwin.
Some things I have done are:

  * Replacement of all the GPL'd headers from the sound system.

  * Cleanup and enhancements to the BSD-licensed EXT2FS port.

  * Updates to basic libraries like libedit and utilities like patch(1).

  * Merged updates to DTrace from illumos.

  * Revamp the native gcc port,  add more warning levels, fixing bugs and bring in support for Apple's "blocks" (closures) support.

  * Clean up memory leaks and other nasty bugs from the main C library (libc).\\  These have a particular high effect on all the overall system.

  * Extensive cleanups and enhancements, many of them using devel/coccinelle and Coverity.

  * Initial sweep ot add SPDX tags all over the src tree.

  * %%GSoC%% mentor for three years in a row and later a %%SoC%% admin for the project.

===== Ports I Maintain =====

  * cad/NASTRAN95
  * cad/calculix
  * cad/calculix-ccx
  * devel/R-cran-praise
  * devel/R-cran-vcd
  * devel/jetbrains-phpstrom
  * devel/ libarea
  * graphics/R-cran-qcc
  * graphics/py-pivy-devel
  * lang/bsh
  * math/R-cran-%%BsMD%%
  * math/R-cran-%%DoE%%.base
  * math/R-cran-%%FrF2%%
  * math/R-cran-Rsolnp
  * math/R-cran-combinat
  * math/R-cran-conf.design
  * math/R-cran-nortest
  * math/R-cran-qualityTools
  * math/R-cran-scatterplot3d
  * math/R-cran-truncnorm
  * math/reduce
  * math/reduce-psl
  * math/viennacl
  * misc/fortune-mod-psalms

===== My Talks =====

Participating at conferences is a good way to get in touch with awesome people that change the world.

==== GSoC Mentor Summit 2016 ====

I have attended this event a couple of times.
The first time I attended I gave a short (3 min.) talk about %%FreeBSD%% and our interaction with other open source projects.

==== ApacheConEU 2016 ====

I participated in %%ApacheCon%% EU 2016 - Seville, Spain, with a talk about the random numbers as implemented in Apache %%OpenOffice%%.

==== ApacheConEU 2014 ====

I participated in %%ApacheCon%% EU 2014, Budapest Hungary, with a talk on Apache %%OpenOffice%% extensions, or the little I was able to figure out about them ;).

==== BSDCan 2014 ====

I participated at BSDCan 2014, Ottawa Canada, with a technical talk about the multiple enhancements in [[http://www.bsdcan.org/2014/schedule/events/483.en.html|FreeBSD's ext2fs implementation]]. %%OpenBSD%%, and later %%NetBSD%%, adopted the read-only ext4 support, which made me very happy.

==== ApacheConEU 2012 ====

I participated in %%ApacheCon%%EU 2012 - Sinsheim, DE, with a talk about the IP cleanup and updates for the %%FreeBSD%% port of Apache %%OpenOffice%%.

==== EuroBSDCon 2008 ====

I participated in %%EuroBSDCon%% 2008 - Strasbourgh, FR, with an article about applications for mechanical/electrical engineering in %%FreeBSD%% ports framework.

{{pedrogiffuni/eurobsdcon_2008_-_engineering_applications_on_freebsd_slides?linkonly|EuroBSDCon 2008 - Engineering Applications on FreeBSD (Slides)}}

{{pedrogiffuni/eurobsdcon_2008_-_working_with_engineering_applications_on_freebsd_article?linkonly|EuroBSDCon 2008 - Working with Engineering Applications on FreeBSD (Article)}}

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