I, Andrea Gasparini, apply for MOTU.

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Who I am

I'm 29, from Bologna, Italy... married with two little children and an electronics engineering degree.

I'm an embedded developer for a videosurvaillance company, recently I work mostly with device driver and "low-level stuff" in some kind of ARM SoC, but I worked at almost all abstraction level, from webapps to initscripts.

Linux is my only OS for quite a long time. ( I don't remember the exact year, but the first distro I clearly recall on my PCs is Debian Potato, so probably it was near 2000). I'm using Ubuntu since the ealier releases, starting with only some "install tests", but ever with a growing attention, till the September of 2007, when I really started my contributions.

My knowlegde inside Linux involves mainly C and Python as programming language, although my job is a whole-round kind, so I touched from the kernel to web interfaces, being a programmer as than a sysadmin, probably without having a deep experience of all what I did, but a very good knowledge of the system in his whole. I wrote scripts and code,scripts and pages also in Perl, C++, HTML, XSL(plus XPath&Co.), Javascript and probably some other stuff I didn't recall, and I'm studying Haskell and functional programming in this period (at a veeeery slow rate, my free time is currently very low)

Apart the time devolved to free software, I like spend time in mountains, free climbing and miniature painting...

My Ubuntu story

My first work for Ubuntu was on usplash, when I worked on it for my job, and subsequently sent some patches that was reworked and accepted ( see bugs #152933 #152952 #154234 ). This makes me discover a very dynamic and comfortable community of developers. Seeing my work accepted in few time, makes me happy to begin to actively contribute to bugfix, merge and sync.

My involvement

• italian community, teach to new devels, talk in devweek.
• QA, script and builder server
• bug in ubuntu, build machine.
• I trust that working for Ubuntu means also working for Debian, as the more code we share, the more code we could get better and better. Said so, I usually try to get new packages to Debian direcly, and bugs reported to both distros:
  • I currently maintain two packages in Debian, and one is awaiting for a sponsor in mentors.debian.net (note that for smile I'm working with the person that's uploading it to revu )

  • This is a list of some bugs reported in debian by me: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?submitter=gaspa@yattaweb.it

    • ( often I try also to contact directly the maintainer in IRC or mail )

Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of

• usplash, but quite old.

• vtk merge, even if still bugged

• matita and ikiwiki as an example of debian collaboration.

Areas of work

Things I could do better

• more international partecipation
• Be more precise: sometime I fall into the "run thoughts" and this distract me from some particular.

• More effective and save time to do things I like more (python&3d applications are in my sight since too much time, but I never had the time to study and apply seriously in these kind of stuff).

Plans for the future

• qa
• mentor and sponsor queue.
• debian collaboration

General

What I like least in Ubuntu

• the size of patches.ubuntu.com.

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