MartinWimpress
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About Me
I'm a forty something information technology professional and Linux enthusiast. I live in Hampshire, England, with my wife and daughter. I have been using Linux since 1995 and my first experience with Ubuntu was 4.10 (Warty Warthog). Prior to Ubuntu I used Yggdrasil, Slackware, Redhat, CRUX and Fedora and I switched to Arch Linux for my workstations in early 2012.
Things I do for Ubuntu
I have recently co-founded https://ubuntu-mate.org and am currently the project lead. I am keen that Ubuntu MATE get recognised as an official Ubuntu flavor. Since starting work on Ubuntu MATE I have contributed several merge propsals to Ubuntu.
External Stuff
https://www.archlinux.org/trustedusers/ currently maintaining ~200 packages.
Maintainer of the http://mate-desktop.org/blog/2014-01-30-mate-desktop-live-cd (based on Arch Linux)
- Debian contributor for the MATE packinging team.
MATE desktop and Arch Linux liason for http://sonargnulinux.com/.
Regular contributor to http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/linuxun/.
- Interviewed for several Linux related podcasts.
- Member of 2 local LUGs.
Future Work
- Establish a larger team of regular contributors for Ubuntu MATE.
Room for Improvement
There are areas where I'd like to improve myself and my own knowledge:
- Development using Gobject Introspection.