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><>|| || '''Name''' || Alessandro Ghersi || || '''Launchpad Page''' || https://launchpad.net/~alessandro-ghersi || || '''Wiki Page''' || https://wiki.ubuntu.com/alessandro-ghersi || = Who I am = I live in [[http://tiny.cc/2wq0f|Loano]], a small town in Italy. I've been a regular Kubuntu user since Gutsy. I like to contribute to Kubuntu as much as my time allows. I'm a fanatic of [[http://abc.go.com/shows/lost|Lost]] = My Ubuntu story = Kubuntu was my first Linux distribution I've installed in my computer and I never left it. After installing it, I started to study how it worked and giving support in the italian forum, I'm still doing this but in a different way, I keep now update users about what we are doing in the Kubuntu development. I writed also some wiki page in italian wiki about how Kubuntu and KDE applications works, there was none one about KDE/Kubuntu before that. I started to partecipate with Italian Marketing Team to ship CDs to people without broadband and ship stickers made by System76. Then, I started to work in the Kubuntu development and I became Kubuntu Ninjas and Kubuntu member. == Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of == There is no specific work for which I am proud of it. I am proud to partecipate in the development of Kubuntu. Anyway: * KDE package maintenance in general. * KDE merges with Debian: [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kubuntu/KarmicKDEMerges|Karmic]] (only 1 package) - [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kubuntu/LucidKDEMerges|Lucid]] - [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kubuntu/MaverickKDEMerges|Maverick]] * All of the KDE/Qt applications I've been able to package * Fix for these two bugs at the end of Lucid cycle: * https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kubuntu-default-settings/+bug/551290 * https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hal/+bug/528907 == Areas of work == I'm involved with the maintenance of our core KDE packages, I like to work in packaging release of KDE and in its build dependends, I started with KDE 4.2.3 I work very hard also in backporting KDE release. I am active with other non-core KDE packages that are in main like Qt libs, phonon, digikam, QtCurve, K3b, Ktorrent, etc, and all KDE build-depends. Every development cycle starts I do many merges with Debian. I like also keeping update the KDE/Qt packages in the Universe repository. I can do library transitions, upgrades, merges, and I can make package with cdbs and debhelper. == Things I could do better == I would like to do more bug triage like I did in the end of the cycle of Lucid, but spare time is not enough sometimes. = Plans for the future = == General == I plan to keep on maintaining the core KDE packages as well as non-core KDE applications in both main and universe. I will do what I can do, like I did in the other cycles == What I like least in Ubuntu == ---- = Comments = ''If you'd like to comment, but are not the applicant or a sponsor, do it here. Don't forget to sign with `@``SIG``@`.'' ---- = Endorsements = ''As a sponsor, just copy the template below, fill it out and add it to this section.'' ---- == TEMPLATE == {{{ == == === General feedback === ## Please fill us in on your shared experience. (How many packages did you sponsor? How would you judge the quality? How would you describe the improvements? Do you trust the applicant?) === Specific Experiences of working together === ''Please add good examples of your work together, but also cases that could have handled better.'' === Areas of Improvement === }}} ---- [[CategoryMOTUApplication]]