I, Steve Conklin, apply for upload rights for package) linux>.

Who I am

I have over ten years experience in open source software, and much longer experience in software and hardware engineering. I am a linux kernel engineer employed by Canonical, and work on the stable updates team. I contribute to several open source amateur radio applications through code contributions, testing, packaging, and advocacy. They include hamlib, fldigi, d-rats, and cwtext.

Past employment includes 9.5 years with Red Hat, where I maintained the userspace security packages and numerous userspace amateur radio applications for both Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora.

My Ubuntu story

My involvement

I first got involved as a user of Ubuntu shortly after leaving employment with Red Hat. When a job opening appeared on the Canonical kernel team, I applied and was hired. Since then I have had various roles on the team, helping to enable new hardware for PC OEMs, helping evaluate and test graphics drivers during the Lucid cycle, and I am now helping perform stable maintenance on all supported released of the Ubuntu kernel.

I founded the Ubuntu-hams and https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-hams-devel teams, which have become dynamic, growing teams with an active irc community.

I have participated in conferences and advocated for Ubuntu and Canonical, attending Southeast Linux Fest, Linux Collaborative Summit, Linux Plumber's conference, and Libre Graphics Forum.

I have worked with upstream developers to have their applications packaged for Debian, so that they may be available in Ubuntu.

Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of

Areas of work

I have helped enable new hardware (prior to release by manufacturers) to operate well on Ubuntu Linux. I did this in cooperation with the OEM group at Canonical, and working with upstream developers, in particular the graphics driver developers.

I performed a lot of evaluation and testing that supported the decision to release Ubuntu 10.04 with a hybrid kernel that combined the 2.6.32 kernel with the drm stack from 2.6.33.

I have been working on the kernel stable maintenance team, with Stefan Bader (the Ubuntu stable kernel manager) and Brad Figg. We have been coordinating stable updates to the kernel which come from Greg Kroah-Hartman's upstream stable tree, along with other bug fixes. I currently have commit rights for the Ubuntu kernel repositories, and regularly push commits to those.

In the last few months, I have begun performing the packaging for Ubuntu kernel stable releases and have been making sponsored uploads, after having my packages signed by Stefan Bader.

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Things I could do better

Plans for the future

General

What I like least in Ubuntu

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