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I am a software engineer and a long time GNU/Linux user. I am an operating system enthusiast, interested in OS development, programming and embedded systems. I started out with Red Hat and Slackware in my childhood days, later on getting sucked into BeOS and its open-source rewrite - Haiku (both as an user and developer). I have worked on the development of the niche' [[http://lintrack.org|Lintrack]] GNU/Linux distribution for around 2 years. During the same time I have worked on a few custom Linux distributions used for embedded systems and network devices from the Miure and ASN products (Miure Duo, ASN RadioOS). Since 2012 I am also involved in the release process of many Ubuntu upstream flagship projects, e.g. Unity, HUD, Compiz. Member of the Canonical Ubuntu Engineering and it's Landing Team, responsible for scheduling and preparing releases for many desktop and touch projects. My programming languages of choice are C, C++ and Python. I am a software engineer and a long time GNU/Linux user. I am an operating system enthusiast, interested in OS development, programming and embedded systems. I started out with Red Hat and Slackware in my childhood days, later on getting sucked into BeOS and its open-source rewrite - Haiku (both as an user and developer). I have worked on the development of the niche' [[http://lintrack.org|Lintrack]] GNU/Linux distribution for around 2 years. During the same time I have worked on a few custom Linux distributions used for embedded systems and network devices from the Miure and ASN products (Miure Duo, ASN RadioOS) - also working on GNU/Linux kernel and driver development for those platforms. Since 2012 onward I am also involved in the release process of many Ubuntu upstream flagship projects, e.g. Unity, HUD, Compiz. Member of the Canonical Ubuntu Engineering Landing Team, responsible for scheduling and preparing releases for many desktop and touch related projects. My programming languages of choice are C, C++ and Python.
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After joining Canonical in 2011 I have worked on many packaging related tasks for internal projects. Later I was helping out with preparing new releases of components from the Unity stack (Unity, Nux, Compiz, BAMF etc.) into the archive. Currently maintaining package releases from the CI Train and the now deprecated cu2d (daily-release infrastructure). (...)
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Current maintainer of the appmenu-qt and appmenu-qt5 projects.
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Besides my contributions to some smaller Ubuntu/Xubuntu projects, after joining Canonical in 2011 I have worked on many packaging related tasks for internal projects. Later I was helping out with preparing new releases of components from the Unity stack (Unity, Nux, Compiz, BAMF etc.) into the archive. Currently maintaining package releases from the CI Train and the now deprecated cu2d (daily-release infrastructure). I am acting as a debian packaging helper for those projects, reviewing packaging changes, helping out in package maintenance.

I am the current maintainer of the appmenu-qt and appmenu-qt5 projects - also helping out in the maintenance of ubuntu-keyboard.

I, Łukasz Zemczak, apply for MOTU.

Name

Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak

Launchpad Page

https://launchpad.net/~sil2100

Wiki Page

N/A

Website

http://sil2100.vexillium.org

Who I am

I am a software engineer and a long time GNU/Linux user. I am an operating system enthusiast, interested in OS development, programming and embedded systems. I started out with Red Hat and Slackware in my childhood days, later on getting sucked into BeOS and its open-source rewrite - Haiku (both as an user and developer). I have worked on the development of the niche' Lintrack GNU/Linux distribution for around 2 years. During the same time I have worked on a few custom Linux distributions used for embedded systems and network devices from the Miure and ASN products (Miure Duo, ASN RadioOS) - also working on GNU/Linux kernel and driver development for those platforms. Since 2012 onward I am also involved in the release process of many Ubuntu upstream flagship projects, e.g. Unity, HUD, Compiz. Member of the Canonical Ubuntu Engineering Landing Team, responsible for scheduling and preparing releases for many desktop and touch related projects. My programming languages of choice are C, C++ and Python.

My Ubuntu story

I started out as an Ubuntu user in the year 2006 - I don't know the exact date, but that's when I remember using Xubuntu and contributing to the then-used XArchiver file archiver. Since then Ubuntu became my primary operating system.

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My involvement

Besides my contributions to some smaller Ubuntu/Xubuntu projects, after joining Canonical in 2011 I have worked on many packaging related tasks for internal projects. Later I was helping out with preparing new releases of components from the Unity stack (Unity, Nux, Compiz, BAMF etc.) into the archive. Currently maintaining package releases from the CI Train and the now deprecated cu2d (daily-release infrastructure). I am acting as a debian packaging helper for those projects, reviewing packaging changes, helping out in package maintenance.

I am the current maintainer of the appmenu-qt and appmenu-qt5 projects - also helping out in the maintenance of ubuntu-keyboard.

Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of

Areas of work

Let us know what you worked on, with which development teams / developers with whom you cooperated and how it worked out.

Things I could do better

Plans for the future

General

What I like least in Ubuntu

Please describe what you like least in Ubuntu and what thoughts do you have about fixing it.


Comments

If you'd like to comment, but are not the applicant or a sponsor, do it here. Don't forget to sign with @SIG@.


Endorsements

As a sponsor, just copy the template below, fill it out and add it to this section.


TEMPLATE

== <SPONSORS NAME> ==
=== General feedback ===
## Please fill us in on your shared experience. (How many packages did you sponsor? How would you judge the quality? How would you describe the improvements? Do you trust the applicant?)

=== Specific Experiences of working together ===
''Please add good examples of your work together, but also cases that could have handled better.''
=== Areas of Improvement ===


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