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Joaquim Rocha

"Joaquim Rocha holds a MsSc in Computer Science Enginner from the
University of Évora. He has been involved in the organization of events
related to Free and Open Source Software and several projects that go
from web development to desktop and mobile applications and also Optical
Character Recognition.
Regarding mobile devices, Joaquim has created projects like BluePad (PC
remote control in J2ME), the port of the Eye of GNOME for Maemo and also
SeriesFinale, a TV shows' tracker application for Maemo 5. He has also
been involved in Optical Character Recognition and Document Analysis.
Within this area he developed OCRFeeder, an application for his Master's
Thesis which converts a printed document into an OpenDocument Text one.
Mixing pleasure with work, he is part of Igalia's mobile and desktop
team and currently collaborates on improving MeeGoTouch, the toolkit for
the MeeGo platform."