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I have not produced any really interesting presentations recently, so this section is blank. However, my PhD. thesis is done!
Who is this guy?
You might identify me by my GPG key ID FEA2 A3FE or similarly my KPilot key, or perhaps you recognize [ade] from IRC (#kpilot or #ebn on freenode).
You might distinguish me from people I'm not. Not Ade Lovett, who is a FreeBSD ports committer whose screen name ade is close to mine. Not Adriaan D. de Groot, a professor of psychology and a master chess player -- this I definitely am not.
A positive description would be: CS researcher in formal methods for embedded systems, teacher at the University of Nijmegen, KDE developer, KDE-FreeBSD porter, KPilot maintainer, cook, guitarist, cyclist, father of two. I'll listen to anything once. Banjos are not totally evil. Mathematics is something I enjoy, as well as Walt Kelley's Pogo.
There is an interview with me (by Tink) as well as an older interview also by Tink -- contrast and compare.
Professional Bio.
Adriaan de Groot is a Canadian by birth and a Dutchman by training. He lives in the Netherlands and works in Greece with his German colleagues. As a researcher in (Free) Software Quality, he travels in Europe trying to spread the word on quality checking tools and Free Software.
Adriaan's first Open Source project started in 1989 when visual editors on serial consoles were all the rage. He contributed bits and pieces to other projects until settling down with the KDE project where he works on synchronizing PalmOS-based handhelds with the desktop; he also works on FreeBSD and OpenSolaris portability. Free Software takes up most of his work day. The EBN is his sideline in Free Software Quality Checking.
Adriaan is a member of the board of directors of KDE e.V. and a member of the board of directors of the NLUUG.
Just last night / I was reminded of / just how bad it had gotten