[vlc-devel] [ANNOUNCE] VLC Technical Committee

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

My dear fellow hackers,

I'm very proud to present to you the VLC Technical Committee, as described during the last VDD conference:
Denis Charmet, Rémi Denis-Courmont, Hugo Beauzée-Luyssen, Thomas Guillem and David Fuhrmann.

The role of the VLC Technical Committee (TC), is mostly a technical resolution committee, that will arise and decide when there are disagreements and bike-shedding in our community.

Denis Charmet, the wisest of the VLC developers, and the most-tampered, claims to have never been in conflict with anyone in the community. Let's hope that does not change. (And he has the Mon€¥, so we like him)

Rémi Denis-Courmont, the biggest contributor to VLC ever (and still the most active non-sponsored developer around VLC);
without him, VLC would not exist anymore; the one that knows more about UB, threads and network that 99.999% of the developers.

Hugo Beauzée-Luyssen, active on the VideoLAN community since the late 2000s, C++1x lover (yet I saw him write Go, once!), very active on the Medialibrary, compilers, toolchain, CI/CD, code-coverage, fuzzing and other toolings; he also knows about UB, even in C++ :)  (some say he is secretly in love with Windows, but he will deny this). Also member of the board, since quite some time now.

Thomas Guillem, one of the most (the most?) active on VLC development; knows wayyyyy too much about audio and video outputs, and codecs in VLC, a lot about Android (and too much about Tizen) and other weird OSes (he even has a mac on his desk). Probably the most knowledgeable about VLC, after Rémi. He loves C and will never switch to other punk langages!

David Fuhrmann, the youngest of the TC, is the macOS/iOS touch of this TC, and knows this weird language called Objective-C. Some people claims he even understands Xcode and the macOS toolchain! But in his every day life, he knows C++ (don't tell Hugo)!

As you can see, in all fairness, there are 2 people of the board in the TC, 2 out of 5 are VideoLabs employees, no roots are part of the TC, nor am I. They know about C, C++, obj-C, and Linux, Windows, macOS.


The fine prints:

- The TC can be contacted to take action, or decide by itself to take an action, on any technical subject that did not reach consensus. If no issue there is, there is no need to call the TC.

- Votes and discussion of the TC are private.

- You can contact the TC at vlc-tc at videolan.org

- The VLC TC cannot take action on community issues or CoC.

- The VLC TC can be fired by the GA or any other VideoLAN meeting with the majority of votes.
 

May they do good work!

With my very best regards,
jb

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Jean-Baptiste Kempf -  President