About Me

I'm Alexandre Vassalotti, a computer science student from Quebec, Canada. I am a Ubuntu user since the 5.04 release, the Hoary Hedgehog. It was my first real introduction to a Linux system. Since then, I never stopped to enjoy learning to use it.

Contributions

Here a list of some of my contributions.

Documentation

• UbuntuPackagingGuide: I worked with JordanMantha for creating this guide. Since I didn't really knew anything about packaging, when I started it, my contributions were mainly geared toward describing the tools packagers uses. I also wrote most of the section called Packaging with Debhelper.

Artwork

• I did several splashes images for Ubuntu for Breezy Badger, that I posted in this thread. I also distributed the source file for the image

• I did upstart's logo, with the help of ScottJamesRemnant. I'm quite proud of the result.

Bug Report

• https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/sbcl/+bug/34257 : My first bug report.

• http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=340422 : This was my first upstream bug I reported. I particularly like this one, because it's one of those bug that can be only triggered after an exact sequence of steps. It's like a secret code for crashing the application.

• https://launchpad.net/products/upstart/+bug/58518 : An upstream bug in upstart.

• https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/libming/+bug/64535 : An UVF exception

This is just my favorite bug reports. For the complete list, look in launchpad.

Support

I try my best to answer support requests on Launchpad. The list can be found here: https://launchpad.net/people/avassalotti/+tickets I also started a new team which is goal is to provide free support to Ubuntu users.

I also done a significant amount of support in the IRC channels.

Community

• I started UbuntuTrivia, which is a themed quiz about anything that can be interesting.

• When I got the time, I try my best to help on UbuntuWeeklyNews.

Future Plans

• Debug and improve applications provided by Ubuntu. (ie. gnome-app-install, update-manager, upstart)
• Help to coordinate the efforts between the developers.
• Improve the existing documentation.
• Maintain the packages in Universe and possibly in Main too.

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