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PÁLI Gábor János

Wearing sneakers since 1998. A former game engine programmer at Invictus, now a free software developer. Also a freelance special translator of English and Hungarian in Informatics and Mathematics. Graduated at the University of Debrecen majoring in Computer Science with minor in Special Translation. As an assistant lecturer at Department of Programming Languages and Compilers, Eötvös Lóránd University, he is mainly interested in the declarative programming approach, contemporary functional programming (especially in embedded domain-specific languages in Haskell). Professional interests also include (lightweight) documentation engineering and typography, software localization, portability issues, UNIX system administration, operating systems, and systems programming.

Current Status

• Hostmaster for the subdomain hu.FreeBSD.org since February 2009
• Webmaster for the Primary Hungarian FreeBSD WWW Mirror since February 2009
• Postmaster for the Hungarian (Free)BSD Mailing Lists since February 2009
• ports-Committer since April 2009 (was mentored by: Thomas Abthorpe and Kövesdán Gábor)
• Developer for libnetstat(3) since June 2009
• FreeBSD Sponsor for the Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System since April 2010
• Vice-president for the Hungarian BSD Association since June 2011

Mentees

• Giuseppe Pilichi (Jacula Modyun) — ports (with Thomas Abthorpe)

Past Students

• Ashish Shukla — ports (with Thomas Abthorpe)

Maintained Ports

• devel/bisoncpp — LALR(1) parser generator that generates C++ classes
• devel/icmake — An Intelligent C-like Maker (required by Bobcat, Bisonc++, Yodl)
• devel/libbobcat — Brokken's Own Base Classes And Templates (required by Bisonc++)
• lang/fsharp — Functional and object-oriented language for the .NET platform
• textproc/bibutils — Program set interconverts between various bibliography formats
• textproc/yodl — An easy to use but powerful document formatting/preparation language
• haskell — Software related to the Haskell language (as member of the FreeBSD Haskell Team)

Talks

• The FreeBSD Hungarian Documentation Project (in Hungarian) — First Free Software Night in Debrecen, 2008/07/05
• FreeBSD for Beginners (in Hungarian) — Conference on Free Software in Szeged, 2009/10/02
• Documenting FreeBSD (in Hungarian) — Conference on Free Software in Szeged, 2009/10/02
• What Functional Programming Can Do for FreeBSD and Vice Versa? — 9th European BSD Conference (EuroBSDCon 2010) in Karlsruhe, 2010/10/09
• FreeBSD 9 is Approaching! (in Hungarian) — Conference on Free Software in Szeged, 2011/09/23

Events Organized

• Central European BSD-Day 2012, May 5, 2012 (Vienna, Austria)
• bsd_day(2011), November 5, 2011 (Bratislava, Slovakia)
• FreeBSD Developer Summit, October 6 — 8, 2011 (Maarssen, The Netherlands) as part of EuroBSDcon 2011
• BSD-Day@2010, November 20, 2010 (Budapest, Hungary)
• FreeBSD Developer Summit, October 7 — 8, 2010 (Karlsruhe, Germany)

Other Projects

• Participated Google Summer of Code 2009, project: Design and Implementation of Subsystem Support Libraries for Monitoring and Management (was mentored by: Oleksandr Tymoshenko)

Past Roles

• (doc/hu_HU.ISO8859-2 | www/hu)-Committer from April 2008 to November 2010 (was mentored by: Kövesdán Gábor)
• (doc | www)-Committer from August 2008 to November 2010 (was mentored by: Kövesdán Gábor)

Translated and Maintained Documents (between 2007.09.01. and 2010.11.30.)

• articles/compiz-fusion — Installing and Using Compiz Fusion
• articles/cups — CUPS on FreeBSD
• articles/dialup-firewall — Dialup Firewalling with FreeBSD
• articles/gjournal-desktop — Implementing UFS Journaling on a Desktop PC
• articles/laptop — FreeBSD on Laptops
• articles/linux-users — FreeBSD Quickstart Guide for Linux Users
• articles/multi-os — Installing and Using FreeBSD with Other Operating Systems
• articles/version-guide — Choosing the FreeBSD Version That is Right for You
• books/faq — Frequently Asked Questions about FreeBSD 6.X, 7.X, and 8.X
• books/fdp-primer — FreeBSD Documentation Project Primer for New Contributors
• books/handbook — FreeBSD Handbook

Utilities

• mfen — a shell script for checking new versions of documentation files (uses heuristics) in the doc/www tree
• checkupdate (with Giorgos Keramidas), a Python program for checking new versions of documentation files in the doc/www (requires manual annotation), check its sample output here
• Translation Checking Service — a cron job built upon checkupdate, running for the Hungarian, Spanish, and Dutch Translation Projects
• HackageDB Port Checking Service — a cron job checking for new versions of ported Haskell software, running for the FreeBSD Haskell Mailing List
• hsporter — a Haskell program for converting Cabal packages to FreeBSD ports
• FreeBSD Haskell Maintainer's Toolkit — small utility programs that can help your work when maintaining Haskell ports

GPG

• Public Key

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  uid                  PÁLI Gábor János <pgj@bsd.hu>
  uid                  PÁLI Gábor János <pgj@elte.hu>
  sub   2048g/A780C60B 2008-04-17 [expires: 2013-04-16]