Me

I am a free software developer and student of computer science and philosophy. I also consider myself a musician, I like both, real piano playing and making music using software.

Recently, I also started a blog.

Contact Information

• FaceBook: ID: 1134935241
• IRC: stw @ irc.gimp.org in #beast
• ICQ: #222191003

Software

Cut and Play - small java presentation software
BEAST - music composition and modular synthesis application
aRts - synthesis and media framework used by KDE2 and KDE3 [no longer maintained by me]
quickOpenJPEG - experimental performance optimized version of the OpenJPEG JPEG2000 library

Talks/Writing

• 2009: More secure than AES - mode FMC
• 2009: Erstellung eines webbasierten Sprachlehrsystems mit Spracherkennung (german)
• 2006: C++ Kurs (learn to program C++, german)
• 2003: Seminararbeit über Granularität und Vagheit in intelligenten Systemen (german)
• 2002: LinuxWorldExpo Paris: The aRts Project
• 2001: Chapter on aRts in the KDE2.0 Book

Music

• Fantasy III
• Fantasy II
• Some stuff I created with BEAST

Friends

Some friends - approximately in the order I met them:

• Maxi (Computer Stuff)
• Slink (Computer Science)
• Katharina Birkenmeier (Architect)
• Freddy (Physics)
• Christian Busse (Medicine)
• Hans Meine (Computer Science)
• Harri Porten (Informatics / KDE)
• Matthias Kretz (Multimedia / KDE)
• Tim Janik (BEAST / Gtk)
• Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (Buddhist Monk) [Losang Zentrum Hamburg]
• Mirko Weidtmann (Mathematics)
• Stoni (Musician) & Christiane
• Katharina Becker-Steinberger (Mathematics)

Unsorted

KDE related stuff

Donations

Software, Music, Books, Education and other things should be available for free; I think this is the right way to go for the future. Other software projects like KDE, OpenOffice, FireFox, the Gimp and GCC have demonstrated that it is possible to create high quality software without directly charging money. Still, even free software developers have bills to pay. One way to finance these is this: if somebody uses a program to do his work, he or she is probably interested to see bugs fixed, new features added and so on. To enable the developers to do this, donating some money to the project helps keeping it alive and growing.
So thats why I am asking for donations here. If you want to support my work on any of the free software projects I work on, consider donating an amount that you consider reasonable. For instance, if you are using BEAST to create music, ask yourself:

• How much money did I save due to this software?
• How much would an equivalint non-free software cost?
• Given that the non-free variant would cost me 100$ (just an example), I might as well donate 20$ to keep the project alive.

So if you want to donate, you can do so using my

• PayPal Account