FOSDEM '09 is a free and non-commercial event organized by the community, for the community. Its goal is to provide Free and Open Source developers a place to meet.

   

Speaker: Riccardo Mottola

Riccardo Mottola

Riccardo has been involved in GNUstep since he started porting PRICE to GNUstep in 2002, the imaging application for Macintosh and GNUstep which he continues to evolve. He concentrates mainly on the application side of GNUstep and is also a GNUstep contributor, mainly involved in testing on non-mainstream platforms.

Currently he is project co-leader of the GNUstep Application Project (GAP) where he wrote FTP, BatteryMonitor and Laterna Magica. He is also involved in maintaining and porting applications like Graphos.

Other current projects are the web browser Vespucci and the SOAP application DataBasin for integration with Salesforce.com, which relies on GNUstep's WebServices framework.