I, Scott Moser, wist to apply for MOTU.

Who I am

I'm Scott Moser, a member of the Ubuntu Server team. I'm personally in charge of building, publishing and maintaining the Official Ubuntu images for EC2. These same images are made available for UEC. Along with the rest of the Ubuntu Server team, I help to make Ubuntu Server and Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud great.

My Ubuntu story

I began using Ubuntu around the Warty time frame. Prior to that I had used Debian since around 2001 and other Linux distributions starting with Slackware in 1995. When ubuntu appeared, I was in the same boat as many others. I loved using Debian. However, due to the long release cycle I wasn't ever satisfied with the 'stable', but wasn't so interested in keeping an 'unstable' system working. Ubuntu's 6 month stable release cycle was a perfect fit.

I remember a conversation with Manoj Iyer where I introduced him to Ubuntu after I had previously gotten him hooked on Debian. He was complaining about his custom kernels not functioning perfectly with his Thinkpad. I asked him why he wanted to spend his days maintaining a custom kernel, and told him that these guys (handing him a Warty CD) had people that did that as their day job. My persuasion half worked, Manoj was converted to Ubuntu, but still spends time maintaining a kernel (He's on the Ubuntu Kernel Team now).

I became involved in the development of Ubuntu in August of 2009. Since then, I've loved working with other Ubuntu developers and putting contributing to making Ubuntu better. The thing I've most enjoyed so far is 1x1 interactions with other developers where I learn from them and occasionally share knowledge.

The thing most difficult for me in Ubuntu is the fast pace of development. My background prior to Ubuntu development was in "Enterprise". Products there didn't have 6 month release cycles. You didn't "just do something", there was always planning involved and long cycles. Because of this, I can procrastinate on work items. The waiting till the last minute causes an even *shorter* period for development.

My involvement

EC2/UEC Images:

• Create and maintain the official Ubuntu images on EC2 and UEC

Bug Fixes sponsored:

• apport : 525003, 486122

• euca2ools:

Cloud-init / Ec2-init:

• Maintain ec2-init in karmic and hardy

• develop cloud-init in lucid

PPAs maintained:

• EC2 Backports

Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of

• UEC in Lucid. Because of my efforts and those of the rest of the Ubuntu Server team, UEC is much more functional, stable and usable than it was in Jaunty. Some things I've contributed to this are end-user fixes and tools (uec-publish-tarball, uec-publish-image) for making usage easier.

Areas of work

Let us know what you worked on, with which development teams / developers you cooperated and how it worked out.

Things I could do better

Plans for the future

General

What I like least in Ubuntu

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