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About Me

As a software developer and tester, I'm interested in clean, efficient, and open applications. I am a member of Xubuntu Team and work closely with the Xubuntu and XFCE projects.

I've previously applied for Ubuntu Membership on 2012-09-06, hoping for my continued contributions aid me in my next attempt.

Contact Information

Contributions

• Continued contributions as a Xubuntu Team developer, member, and tester
  • Contributing to the efforts of the Shimmer Project, where icon and Gtk themes are developed for Xubuntu
    • These contributions include testing, development, and contributing to the elementary-xfce icon theme.

    • Additionally, I've prepared a daily PPA for testing the various themes: Shimmer Project Daily

  • Continued contribution to Xubuntu team meetings and development
  • Contributed to the Xubuntu Offline Documentation rewrite for Quantal
  • Maintainence and development of core Xubuntu software
    • Providing package archives for testing pre-release versions

      • Xfce 4.12 Daily

      • Catfish Stable Builds

  • Testing pre- and post-release Xubuntu Live CDs, installation, and stability
  • Creating test cases as an Xubuntu test case admin.
  • Merging packages from Debian to Ubuntu (with sponsored upload)
  • Providing packaging for newer software versions (with sponsored upload)
• Active maintainer of the following projects:

  • Catfish File Search (since 0.4) as found in Lubuntu and Xubuntu (Launchpad)

  • LightDM GTK+ Greeter (since 0.6) as found in Lubuntu and Xubuntu (Launchpad)

  • MenuLibre, a popular open source menu editor, developed and introduced during the 2012 Ubuntu App Showdown (Launchpad), and intended for later inclusion in Xubuntu.

  • Parole Media Player (since 0.3) as found in Xubuntu (Launchpad, XFCE Goodies)

Future Goals

• Continued contributions to the Xubuntu project and the Ubuntu ecosystem
• Continued maintenance of Xubuntu applications
• Obtain package maintenance rights for the Xubuntu packageset

Testimonials

Sean is a very good person I met. He helped quite a lot of people. -- smartboyhw

Sean has been very helpful for the Xubuntu project during the Quantal development cycle. He's been helping in getting things done that others have been unable to finish, or start. When Sean promises to deliver, he does that, and always in time. He was recently made a member of the Xubuntu team, and I am happily looking forward for his future contributions. A very strong +1 for Ubuntu membership from me. Update (Sep 18, 2013): Sean has kept on contributing to Xubuntu in various ways. He has been involved with the project broadly, sharing his knowledge and expertise where possible. He's been very active with development and I support his aspiration to become an uploader as well. Still a very strong +1 from me. -- Pasi Lallinaho, Xubuntu Project Lead

I got to know Sean as a bugreporter for Xubuntu. He meticulously reported UI quirks with an eye for detail and perfection. This was a new and impressive experience for me, which is why I got in touch with him directly and we have been working on several projects together since. I can say that he is a very pleasant and reliable co-worker and I hope he'll stay with us for a long time! A strong-as-can-be +1 for his Ubuntu membership. -- Simon Steinbeiß, Xubuntu Artwork Lead

I have recently become more involved in Xubuntu during a dev cycle than I have any other flavour of late; Sean was one of those that always appeared to be around and working on aspects of it's development. A really helpful attitude to others - an excellent candidate for Ubuntu membership. +1 from me Elfy Forum Admin