02/28: Paint.NET Project Lead Interview
Posted by Patrick
There is an interview at BetaNews with project lead Rick Brewster.
Via Mary Jo Foley.
BN: Who is currently working on the program? Is Microsoft directly involved in its development?
RB: Right now there is myself, Tom Jackson, and Dennis Dietrich. We all work at Microsoft full-time, but none of us work on the same Microsoft projects. Tom and I both graduated from Washington State University. Dennis is handling the German translation and is also what you could call our Localization Manager. Tom's a math genius who "knows things" and he contributes some of the more mathematically complex stuff: GIF dithering, 3D Rotate/Zoom, the math behind the new layer composition, etc. I do everything else -- the guts, the overall architecture, the installer, Web site, UI, performance, etc.
We work on the project in our spare time. You could say that it is officially an unofficial project. It's not like we have a business plan or market penetration goals.
RB: Right now there is myself, Tom Jackson, and Dennis Dietrich. We all work at Microsoft full-time, but none of us work on the same Microsoft projects. Tom and I both graduated from Washington State University. Dennis is handling the German translation and is also what you could call our Localization Manager. Tom's a math genius who "knows things" and he contributes some of the more mathematically complex stuff: GIF dithering, 3D Rotate/Zoom, the math behind the new layer composition, etc. I do everything else -- the guts, the overall architecture, the installer, Web site, UI, performance, etc.
We work on the project in our spare time. You could say that it is officially an unofficial project. It's not like we have a business plan or market penetration goals.
Via Mary Jo Foley.
