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''Tell us a bit about yourself.''
In my daily life I work as a Paliative Care nurse in a mobile nursing service of the Catholic Church. I am based in the beautfiul Bavaria - in the north of Munich to be exactly.
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''Tell us how and when you got involved, what you liked working on and what you could probably do better.'' I am involved in Free and Open Source Software development for one third of my so far 34 year long life. Starting as a translator for the Synaptic package manager I soon got interested in documentation and user interface design. The main developer of Synaptic and long standing Debian and Ubuntu developer Michael Vogt became a kind of mentor to me and introduced me to the Ubuntu community.

My first UDS was in Paris, 2006. I was mainly working on user interfaces and implementing them using Python but over the time I dived down the package management stack. So after the PackageKit project was started I wrote a Python based APT backend. Unfortunately the technical design policies of PackageKit did not allow to support essential features of APT and the upcoming software-center. This was the time when I created the aptdaemon project which is used as the default

As a "side task" I worked on translating Ubuntu, but I decided to setp back from the lead position of the German translator time because of too limited time resources some years ago.
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There are some older user interface and application developments (gnome-app-install, software-sources-properties, sessioninstaller,

I, Sebastian Heinlein, apply for upload rights for the following packages.

  • aptdaemon
  • python-defer
  • sessioninstaller
  • packagekit

Who I am

In my daily life I work as a Paliative Care nurse in a mobile nursing service of the Catholic Church. I am based in the beautfiul Bavaria - in the north of Munich to be exactly.

My Ubuntu story

I am involved in Free and Open Source Software development for one third of my so far 34 year long life. Starting as a translator for the Synaptic package manager I soon got interested in documentation and user interface design. The main developer of Synaptic and long standing Debian and Ubuntu developer Michael Vogt became a kind of mentor to me and introduced me to the Ubuntu community.

My first UDS was in Paris, 2006. I was mainly working on user interfaces and implementing them using Python but over the time I dived down the package management stack. So after the PackageKit project was started I wrote a Python based APT backend. Unfortunately the technical design policies of PackageKit did not allow to support essential features of APT and the upcoming software-center. This was the time when I created the aptdaemon project which is used as the default

As a "side task" I worked on translating Ubuntu, but I decided to setp back from the lead position of the German translator time because of too limited time resources some years ago.

My involvement

Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of

There are some older user interface and application developments (gnome-app-install, software-sources-properties, sessioninstaller,

Areas of work

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

Things I could do better

Plans for the future

General

What I like least in Ubuntu

Please describe what you like least in Ubuntu and what thoughts do you have about fixing it.

Comments

If you'd like to comment, but are not the applicant or a sponsor, do it here. Don't forget to sign with @SIG@.

Endorsements

As a sponsor, just copy the template below, fill it out and add it to this section.

TEMPLATE

== <SPONSORS NAME> ==
=== General feedback ===
## Please fill us in on your shared experience. (How many packages did you sponsor? How would you judge the quality? How would you describe the improvements? Do you trust the applicant?)

=== Specific Experiences of working together ===
''Please add good examples of your work together, but also cases that could have handled better.''
=== Areas of Improvement ===

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