<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Hi,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">So I thought it would be courteous to introduce myself to the SANE community as a new maintainer of xsane.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I'm a C++/C programmer of about 30 years experience working here and there in proprietary software houses.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I'm a Brit currently living and working in BC, Canada.<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">My first dalliance with Linux was with a big stack of floppies in the early nineties on my newly purchased ESCOM tower sporting a blistering 486 DX33. :O</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">A lot of my interest with scanning comes from my other love of music as a trumpet player.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I came to SANE originally with a new Canon MF4770N multifunction for my daughter which wasn't supported on Linux. With some great help from Rolf, I managed to get scanning to work. Network scanning from the ADF is still a bust but that's something that I plan to work on again and I have some ideas about what is going on there.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Most of my Linux experience has been as a user rather than as a developer although I do some Linux dev at my current place of work. So my autoconf foo is embryonic.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I will try not to let you down!</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Cheers, <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Ralph<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div></div></body></html>