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I am a software engineer and computer science researcher. I was Ada's colleague at Google. Ada also introduced me to the tool and I was intrigued. Then I read David MacKay's research articles and I got even more interested.
I am trying to revitalize the software development efforts on the project. There are many things we need to improve technically so that we can attract new open source contributions. My goal is to improve the development environment, tools, processes etc. so that we can participate in the events such as Google Summer of Code or hacktoberfest where we can attract talented engineers. We can also work on improving the overall "hygiene" of the project and porting it to the new operating systems and environments.
We also need to improve the end-user experience such as the on-boarding process. Because this definitely needs to be end-user driven effort to prevent any type of software bloat.
More about me:
- Developer Story: https://stackoverflow.com/users/626563/cegrd
- Github Repo: https://github.com/cagdasgerede/
I'm an Occupational Therapist, currently working at the Ace Centre - a UK based Charity supporting Children and Adults who need access to technology to spoken and written communication. My main day to day role is assessing and supporting individuals - with a large focus on how an individual accesses the equipment. In a previous life I ended up working as a web developer working on frontend work (but this was around 1998-2002 where the magic of Javascript went as far as making a rollover image or a popup window) and then later working in more backend code - for organisations such as the BBC (my claim to fame is I worked on Eastenders and top of the pops for a short while!).
As well as my main role in assessing I also tinker with code. With my colleague Paul Hewett - we recently launched OpenAssistive - a catalogue of all open source Assistive Technology solutions (Hardware and Software). It was a replacement of OATSoft - a popular database that listed Open Source software solutions but the database got corrupted and no backups could be found. So the backend of OpenAT was created around the idea that its totally free of a database - and the data is now managed on GitHub (or any Git repository).
The Ace Centre have historically developed software - with needs coming directly from our clients. The recent re-development of the Dasher for iOS was funded by charitable donations to the Ace Centre after a client who uses dasher contacted us worried about his Dasher on iPhone soon to not work.