MichielSikkes

Differences between revisions 4 and 5
Revision 4 as of 2005-08-15 13:36:36
Size: 435
Editor: 62
Comment:
Revision 5 as of 2005-08-15 13:46:31
Size: 1907
Editor: 62
Comment:
Deletions are marked like this. Additions are marked like this.
Line 3: Line 3:
== Profile ==
Full name: Michiel Sikkes
Date of birth: July 19th, 1988
Tech experience and interests: GNU/Linux, Open Source, Community development, programming (C, C#, Python, Ruby, PHP), web development, package maintainance.

== History ==
I've been involved with GNU/Linux and GNOME for about three years now. I started developing, contribing and maintaining applications around the GNOME 2.0 hype and started to become more and more interested in open source software development.

My first package was beep-media-player which I packaged for Debian. I maintained it for about a year and stopped doing so some time ago after noticing upstream was not very active anymore and the upstream bugreports still flushed in.
http://packages.qa.debian.org/b/beep-media-player.html

After this I started writing little GNOME applications like Trash Applet which is now addopted in the GNOME Applets module. Soon I signed up with the GNOME foundation and obtained CVS access. Also, I wrote some patches for nautilus (higification of progress dialogs).
Line 4: Line 17:
=== Trash Applet ===
By coincidence I discovered Trash Applet was already in Ubuntu before I actually knew anyone was using it. Of course, I was happily surprised. When I started to use Ubuntu myself I merged Ubuntu's patches and started to improve Trash Applet with the help of Emannuele and James (you might remember Davyd's 'corporate influence' screenshot when Trash Applet just arrived in gnome-applets)

MichielSikkes

Profile

Full name: Michiel Sikkes Date of birth: July 19th, 1988 Tech experience and interests: GNU/Linux, Open Source, Community development, programming (C, C#, Python, Ruby, PHP), web development, package maintainance.

History

I've been involved with GNU/Linux and GNOME for about three years now. I started developing, contribing and maintaining applications around the GNOME 2.0 hype and started to become more and more interested in open source software development.

My first package was beep-media-player which I packaged for Debian. I maintained it for about a year and stopped doing so some time ago after noticing upstream was not very active anymore and the upstream bugreports still flushed in. http://packages.qa.debian.org/b/beep-media-player.html

After this I started writing little GNOME applications like Trash Applet which is now addopted in the GNOME Applets module. Soon I signed up with the GNOME foundation and obtained CVS access. Also, I wrote some patches for nautilus (higification of progress dialogs).

Involvements in Ubuntu

Trash Applet

By coincidence I discovered Trash Applet was already in Ubuntu before I actually knew anyone was using it. Of course, I was happily surprised. When I started to use Ubuntu myself I merged Ubuntu's patches and started to improve Trash Applet with the help of Emannuele and James (you might remember Davyd's 'corporate influence' screenshot when Trash Applet just arrived in gnome-applets)

Update Notifier

I've contribed and packaged update-notifier which is maintained by MichaelVogt.

Update Manager

Furthermore, I'm the "upstream" maintainer of Update Manager and co-maintainer of the update-manager package in Ubuntu which is also maintained by MichaelVogt.

Website: http://www.gnome.org/~michiels/projects/update-manager


CategoryHomepage

MichielSikkes (last edited 2008-08-06 16:29:38 by localhost)