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Martin Kolman - activity overview

  1. Martin Kolman - activity overview
    1. Education
    2. Experience
      1. Linux
      2. Python
      3. Packaging
      4. GIT
    3. Projects
      1. modRana
      2. modRana data repository
      3. Monav data generator
      4. Mieru
      5. RePho
      6. Panora
      7. Coding competitions
      8. Maemo Coding Competition 1 (2010)
      9. MeeGo Coding Competition 2011
      10. Maemo.org Coding Competition 2012
      11. Be Qt
      12. Be Qt : Summer Contest
    4. Past RedHat/Fedora involvement

Education

I've got my Bachelors on the Faculty of Informatics of the Masaryk University in Brno with bachelors thesis on the topic of​Flexible GPS Navigation for Mobile Devices with Linux OS. I've started the development of modRana while working on this thesis.

I'm currently working on my masters thesis called Comparison of today's mobile Linux distributions.

Experience

Linux

I've been using Linux for many years at home & at school and I've also helped other users in need. :)

Python

Packaging

GIT

Projects

modRana

ModRana is a flexible navigation system for Mobile devices. It can show various map layers, manage POI, search for amenities, addresses or Wikipedia articles and has a powerful command-line interface, that exposes many of its features to third party applications. This interface is already in use by ​Saera for voice triggered amenity & weather search.

ModRana supports both online and offline routing (using the Monav backend) & provides multilingual voice directions turn-by-turn.

website: ​http://www.modrana.org
source code repository: ​https://github.com/M4rtinK /modrana
Maemo package: ​http://maemo.org/downloads/product/Maemo5/modrana/
main discussion thread: ​http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=58861

modRana data repository

The modRana data repository is a server application, that generates navigation data packages from OpenStreetMap data for use by modRana and other compatible navigation systems.

The data repository development started after support for Monav offline routing was added to modRana. The users need up-to-date routing data packs to use this and the data repository is there to generate and host them. It currently generates & hosts only Monav routing data packs, but its architecture is prepared for seamlessly adding support for handling other data packages.

The repository (re)generation is fully multi-threaded, so that, if running on suitable hardware, even a global data update takes just a few hours. For example, global Monav routing data generation takes less than 4 hours on a 48 core Opteron server (including data downloads & result packaging).

source code repository: ​https://github.com/M4rtinK/modrana-data-repository
main repository instance: ​http://data.modrana.org

Monav data generator

A simple script for Monav routing data generation. I takes one OSM data pack (in .osm or .pbf) and generates a folder with Monav routing data from it.

Mieru

RePho

Panora

Coding competitions

Maemo Coding Competition 1 (2010)

3rd place with modRana in the Location & Navigation category.

​results table

MeeGo Coding Competition 2011

2nd place with modRana in the Location & Navigation category.

​results table

Maemo.org Coding Competition 2012

1st place with modRana in the Updates & Development on Existing Apps category.

​results table

Be Qt

3rd place with RePho.

Be Qt : Summer Contest

6th place with Panora.

Past RedHat/Fedora involvement

I've visited many interesting RedHat organized events in the past (Software Freedom day, Openhaus, Tower talks, Fedora release party, Devconf,...). I've also got the first place in Quiz on the Fedora 17 release party in Brno & got a nice RedHat? + Fedora flash drive as a result! :)

I've also taken part on Fedora test days: