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| == 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). |
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| === 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) |
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=== Package Management === https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackageManagement == Future == If I become Ubuntu Member and/or Maintainer I will get the chance to improve package management and updates in Ubuntu far easier than I can do now. Also, I might get some work out of MichaelVogts work and de-stress him a bit ;-) |
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
Package Management
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackageManagement
Future
If I become Ubuntu Member and/or Maintainer I will get the chance to improve package management and updates in Ubuntu far easier than I can do now. Also, I might get some work out of MichaelVogts work and de-stress him a bit 
MichielSikkes (last edited 2008-08-06 16:29:38 by localhost)