RossGammon

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I am an Engineer by day, and in my spare time I maintain packages for Debian and help out with Ubuntu.

I was born in Australia, and now live in Copenhagen, Denmark. In my younger days I spent a lot of time learning to program. This was mainly in BASIC, but I also learnt some Assembler (Z80) and Pascal programming through my studies. Then my work got in the way, and I spent many years as a software user only (Windows of course).

Then in 2011 I installed Linux, discovered the joy of software freedom, and rediscovered the fun of making computers do what you want. I am maintaining a package in Debian (Gramps), and I am a member of the Debian GIS Team (mainly trying to help out with the osmgpsmap package as a start). I am also enjoying learning some Python, Django, PHP and C.

In Ubuntu, when I am not working on Gramps & osmgpsmap, I am a member of the Ubuntu Studio Team. With the Ubuntu Studio Team, I have been helping out by merging software from Debian, writing manual Test Cases and other general tasks (like tidying the packaging subscriptions for the Ubuntu Studio Bugs Team, and categorising the packages that make up Ubuntu Studio). I am also a member of the Bug Squad and try to devote whatever spare time there is to triaging a few bugs.

Contributions

Future

I want to ...

  • Help out with more packages in Debian GIS Team
  • Package some new software for Debian
  • Join the Debian Multimedia Team and help with their packages

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