Hello there,

My name is Ryan and I am a faceless, thoughtless graduate student at the Georgia Institute of Technology. I am pursuing a Ph.D. in machine learning, but realistically I seem to spend all my time doing software development and systems administration. I've been the president of the Georgia Tech LUG for some years and I think I still hold some leadership position there but I'm not sure what.

I spend my time (when I am not having an existential crisis) developing a machine learning library called 'mlpack', which after some years of painstaking refactoring and many iteractions between head and desk, was finally released. Now that it has been released, we are trying to push it into various repositories so it is easier for people to install and use.

I have prepared a spec file and SRPM in bug #843997 [1] and am looking for a sponsor, as it is my first Fedora package. I believe that I have followed all the package guidelines properly. Hopefully someone can take the time and help me learn all the necessary skills to get this properly packaged, otherwise I will be forced to read Ph.D. Comics incessantly, then spiral into depression as my research assistantship runs out, eventually resulting in certain substance abuse and addiction and jailtime. Oh, the humanity!

I can be found in IRC as 'naywhayare' and I also communicate through email and/or carrier pigeon (whichever medium is most convenient).

Thanks,

Ryan Curtin (rcurtin)

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=843997