I, Michael Terry, apply for MOTU.

Who I am

I'm a long-time open source developer. I work for Canonical in the OEM Services group (customizing images for OEM customers that want to pre-install Ubuntu). I maintain various upstream packages (xpad, gmult, deja-dup).

My Ubuntu story

My involvement

I've used Ubuntu since Warty, but not terribly seriously until Edgy. I consider myself an upstream man and never got involved in the packaging side of things until Canonical hired me in the spring of 2008. Since then, I've immersed myself in packaging and gotten involved in all manner of things.

Notably the installer. I've done a fair bit of work on it, fixing various bugs, improving its language support, re-working it to be more modular.

I also 'maintain' (i.e. watch out for and push updates to) deja-dup in Ubuntu, until it gets a maintainer in Debian.

Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of

I maintain a list of packages I've worked on.

Areas of work

My work in the Canonical OEM group has led me all over the stack. But especially ubiquity/oem-config fixes and GNOME application changes. And resolution fixes for applications that don't fit on netbook screens.

I've also spent some time on the Foundations team. I've worked with them to simplify acpi-support, switch the default system logger to rsyslog, and re-architect ubiquity.

But I'm move of a jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none kind of developer. I spent a lot of time early in the Karmic cycle doing merges and syncs for all sorts of packages.

Things I could do better

Plans for the future

General

What I like least in Ubuntu

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