I, Felix Geyer, apply for kubuntu-dev.

Who I am

I'm 22 years old computer science student from Karlsruhe, Germany.

My Ubuntu story

My involvement

I've been using Linux since 2006 starting with Fedora Core. Then around a year later I switched to Ubuntu Feisty.
After having packaged new upstream versions of several applications for a few friends and myself, I started contributing to Ubuntu in 2009.
In May 2010 I have become a Kubuntu member.

Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of

• Firefox KDE integration

  • I worked on getting the Firefox KDE integration from openSUSE into Ubuntu.
    This includes preparing the patches for Firefox, packaging kmozillahelper and fixing a few bugs upstream.

• KDE bugfixing in lucid

  • At the end of the lucid development cycle I fixed several bugs in the kdebase-workspace package which all went upstream:
    https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdebase-workspace/4:4.4.2-0ubuntu9
    https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdebase-workspace/4:4.4.2-0ubuntu10
    https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdebase-workspace/4:4.4.2-0ubuntu11
    https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdebase-workspace/4:4.4.2-0ubuntu12

• Making multimedia keys work in KDE (pushed fix to our package and upstream).

• I've merged kdelibs (3.5) from Debian during this cycle and noticed a missing security fix in the process.

• Applied a workaround (that can be dropped once Qt is properly modularized) to qt4-x11 so QtAssitant works correctly after QtWebkit has been split into an own package.

Areas of work

• Packaging new KDE SC releases
• Maintaining various KDE related packages (especially qtcreator, amarok, synaptiks)

• Full list of my package uploads

Things I could do better

Remember to add an install file when converting single to multi binary packages.

Plans for the future

General

• Push more of our packages to Debian (e.g. libindicate-qt, kfritz).

• I'll try to reduce the cd image size so we have more space for useful applications and translations.

• I plan to implement some feature in kdesudo (e.g. bug #696345) and to clean up the source code a bit.

What I like least in Kubuntu

Nothing specific I can think of right now.

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