David Gümbel
email: <david.guembel@gmx.de>
I've written the winestart utility, and as a former Gentoo developer I was a member of the Wine herd there. I also am a co-founder of ITOMIG, and have been responsible for the installation of the city of Munich's Wine-based software migration laboratory, the so-called "Wine-Keller" (see below).
Aside of that, I've written a bunch of free software (here's a list) mostly unrelated to Wine, contribute(d) code and bug reports to KDE, and I'm a member of the fellowship program of the Free Software Foundation Europe.
Current Projects
WineInAcademics. We've established a working agreement with a professor at Tübingen university, allowing us to propose subjects for Master's thesis' related to Wine, which he and /me will supervise. Please see WineInAcademics for more information and project proposals. I also frequently do some propaganda for Wine among students. So far, we have:
MichaelBuettner, who's working on the subject of winelib-based ports of specialized software in his Master's thesis
KaiBlin, who's working on SingleSignOn as his SummerOfCode 2005 project, and continues to work on Wine in Summer of Code 2006: NtlmSigningAndSealing
ChristophProbst, who is integrating the Clam Antivirus engine into Wine as his SummerOfCode 2006 project: ClamAntiVirusIntegration
Wine-Probe initiative. My company has launched the "Wine-Probe" initiative. Its goal is to make local software vendors aware of the potential bussiness opportunity in a Wine-based port or a Wine/Linux version of their software. Details can be found in the WWN issue 254, in WWN issue 269, and on our webpage (de).
Wine-Keller. The so called "Wine-Keller" is the laboratory for software migration of the city of Munich's migration project LiMux. Munich is migrating around 14 000 PCs to Linux (Debian), many of which need to run proprietary and highly specialized software. I've put up a list of their pipeline of programs that need to be analyzed WRT to their possible compatibility with Linux/Wine: LiMuxWineKellerApplications