• 24 years old free software developer living in Grenoble, France

• Launchpad page: https://launchpad.net/people/nussbaum

• Personal homepage: http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/

• PhD student (very general topic: clusters, grids, peer-to-peer systems, and ways to study those cool things).

Interests regarding Ubuntu (was my membership application)

I am a long time Free Software and Debian user (since ~1998), developer and advocate. More than a year ago, I got the chance to beta-test what was by then called [http://www.no-name-yet.com/ no-name-yet] (see for example this [http://bugs.debian.org/269025 xserver-xfree86 bug] I worked on with fabbione in Aug/Sep 2004). I've been using and advocating Ubuntu since then, and I got interested by the MOTU process in september when I discovered that some Ruby-related packages weren't in such a good shape. Ubuntu is a very interesting and successful project, and I'd like to help make it even better.

My areas of interest include :

• efficient management of universe packages : I started working on ["MultiDistroTools"], a set of scripts to help manage a lot of packages (see this [http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-motu/2005-November/000004.html status summary] for more info). My goal inside MOTU is to help reduce bottlenecks and make the whole process smoother by reducing complexity.

• ruby-related packages : I am a Ruby programmer, and would like to improve the general quality of Ruby in Ubuntu (which wasn't really satisfying in Breezy). I work inside both ["MOTURuby"] and the [http://pkg-ruby-extras.alioth.debian.org/ Debian pkg-ruby-extras team] to achieve this goal, and am upstream & maintainer of several Ruby-related Debian packages. (See below for merges and bugs I worked on) I'm also interested in using ["AutomatedTesting"] to test ruby packages (which is easy, since most ruby software already comes with unit tests).

• use of Ubuntu by non-computer-geeks : my 75 years old grandmother, as well as my mother and my girlfriend, are all Ubuntu users. I'd like to make it easier for people like them to use Ubuntu. I haven't thought about it a lot, but maybe starting a team like "Ubuntu for non-geeks" to share usage reports and track usability issues that makes it difficult to use Ubuntu for "normal people" would be a good start.

Outside of Debian and Ubuntu, my work includes :

• Upstream and Debian maintainer for :

  • [http://home.gna.org/feed2imap/ Feed2Imap] - RSS/Atom aggregator that uploads to IMAP

  • [http://home.gna.org/ruby-feedparser/ Ruby-Feedparser] - RSS/Atom feed parser library (to be uploaded to Debian soon)

  • [http://home.gna.org/xmpp4r/ XMPP4R] - Jabber library for Ruby

• Jabber stuff: active member of the [http://www.jabber.org/ Jabber Software Foundation], administrator of the [http://jabber.apinc.org/ french largest Jabber server], founder of the [http://www.jabberfr.org/ JabberFR.org community site].

• One of the administrators of the [http://www.gna.org Gna!] sourceforge-like service.

• Other stuff listed on [http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ my homepage]

Ubuntu Work

• ["MOTUTools"] : a set of scripts to help manage a lot of packages (see also above). Currently sitting in ["REVU"].
• ["MOTURuby"] : I 'm currently the only active member, but I hope to help get others involved too.

Merges

[https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/5253 Bug 5253] (libgettext-ruby) trivial syncBR [https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/5743 Bug 5743] (ruby-gnome2) quite simple sync BR [https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/5255 Bug 5255] (libgtk-trayicon-ruby) first a trivial sync, but build failed on Ubuntu's buildd. Now also [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=337395 Debian bug #337395]. Was uploaded. New version in Debian fixes the bug. BR [https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/5946 Bug 5946] (rubyfilter) trivial sync BR [https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/5742 Bug 5742] (libopengl-ruby) simple merge BR [https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/6352 Bug 6352] (libgtk-trayicon-ruby) trivial sync BR [https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/6395 Bug 6395] (flashplugin-nonfree) sync BR

Some bugs I worked on

[https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/5035 Bug 5035 (libgettext-ruby, specific to breezy amd64)] - submitted debdiff. was uploaded to breezy-updates. BR [https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/1299 Bug 1299 (librmagick-ruby, breezy)] Waiting for an official position from a MOTU. BR

REVU reviews

[http://revu.tauware.de/details.py?upid=1021 Review of raphink's kenigma] in REVU