* Tech blog: http://www.kdedevelopers.org/blog/57
 * Homepage: [[http://jriddell.org/|http://jriddell.org/]]
 * Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~jr

== Moi ==

I'm a KDE and Kubuntu developer.  I'm 28, living in Edinburgh in Scotland.

== Kubuntu ==

I was one of the first Kubuntu developers.  I started off by packaging the latest KDE for Ubuntu as soon as Ubuntu went public and supporting the many new Ubuntu users who wanted to use KDE.  Ubuntu took a wee while to work out its community processes but once it did I was the first Ubuntu member and the first core-dev and started uploading KDE packages.  By the time of the second Ubuntu release we were in a position to release a KDE variant called Kubuntu.  

I'm now a Canonical employee privileged enough to work full time on Kubuntu.  I make packages, write apps such as the installer, test images, do releases and try to build the community.

== KDE ==

I'm also a KDE developer.  I look after Umbrello UML Modeller (not very much these days alas).  I'm an editor on KDE Dot News and run Planet KDE.

== Ubuntu ==

In the wider Ubuntu world I'm an archive admin, processing new queue and other tasks each Tuesday.  I'm also on the release team.

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