• 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).

Why I am applying for membership

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]. 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 ["MOTUTools"], 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)

• 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 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 (i386 build still missing)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]. Requires review+upload. BR [https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/5742 Bug 5742] (libopengl-ruby) simple merge waiting for review+upload BR [https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/5946 Bug 5946] (rubyfilter) trivial sync waiting for review+upload BR

Some bugs I worked on

[https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/5035 Bug 5035 (libgettext-ruby, specific to breezy amd64)] - submitted debdiff. waiting for review+upload BR

Other stuff on this Wiki page

Views on Ubuntu

Package management of Ubuntu packages

I have used Debian for a very long time, and I have lots of Debian users amongst my colleagues every day. While Ubuntu's main packages really rock, some universe packages need more love (example: some ruby-related packages shipped in Breezy have serious bugs, while their Debian counterparts at the time of the breezy release had had those bugs fixed). Therefore, my goal with my involvement in Ubuntu could be summarized as "let's make packages for which we don't have enough time to care for at least as good as in Debian".

Use of Ubuntu by non-computer-geeks

My grand-mother, my mother and my girlfriend (who isn't a computer geek) are all Ubuntu users. I am interested in making Ubuntu as usable as possible for people who have never really understood a lot about computers. For example, while the command line is a very powerful tool for most geeks & nerds, this category of users often see it as something totally impossible to understand, or something that shows them that they don't really control their computer as much as they would like to. Therefore, another part of my involvement in Ubuntu is about reporting problems that my 3 favorite Ubuntu users encounter as a daily basis.