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Describe yourself here My name is Thomas, at the time of this writing I'm 32 years old, married, living in NRW, Germany. Among other things I enjoy travelling, spending time with friends and family, I do read a lot and try to workout regularly (although I'm pretty bad at keeping a regular cadence there :)).
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|| IRC || your IRC ||
|| GTalk || your GTalt username ||
|| Email || your email address ||
|| Website || your URL ||		 || IRC || tvoss on irc.freenode.net ||
|| Email || thomas.voss@canonical.com ||
|| Blog || http://samohtv.wordpress.com/ ||
|| Google+ || https://plus.google.com/u/0/110095242873945299189/posts ||
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Write your contributions here.  * Attempt to integrate the Open Input Framework with Chromium to enable pixel-perfect scrolling. Did not land on upstream, though.
 * Initial design and implementation of the Jenkins QA infrastructure that provides CI and Autolanding for launchpad projects today, together with work on the overall framework to enable coverage reporting, collection of test results etc..
 * Designed and implemented the platform-api layer for Ubuntu Touch that exposes base OS functionality like window mgmt capabilities, HW-accelerated rendering, input, sensors, camera and HW-accelerated video decoding to the QML SDK. Wrote the backend implementation that relies on hybris to provide the aforementioned functionality by leveraging existing Android components and drivers.
 * Architecture and parts of the implementation of Mir.
 * Architecture and integration of Unity Next with Mir.
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Write your goals. I would like Ubuntu to be the first operating system/platform that is able to power a whole zoo of form-factors and provide users with a beautiful and efficient UX, that is consistent and seamlessly adapting to different usage scenarios, form factors and devices. At the same time I want to make sure that Ubuntu stays as open and accessible as possible, welcoming to newcomers, embracing diversity, offering a place for people to collaborate and build awesome things.
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If you know me and have something nice to say, please leave a comment here. 		 * Thomas Voss is fantastic. I've met him at various UDSes, saw his work in various places and in the last few months worked together with him on making it easier to contribute to some upstream projects. He's very easy to work with, takes stressful times with his incredible sense of humour and I still have got to visit him - I promised! -- [[LaunchpadHome:dholbach]] <<DateTime(2013-03-15T11:17:14+0100)>>

About Me

My name is Thomas, at the time of this writing I'm 32 years old, married, living in NRW, Germany. Among other things I enjoy travelling, spending time with friends and family, I do read a lot and try to workout regularly (although I'm pretty bad at keeping a regular cadence there :)).

Contact Information

Contributions

  • Attempt to integrate the Open Input Framework with Chromium to enable pixel-perfect scrolling. Did not land on upstream, though.
  • Initial design and implementation of the Jenkins QA infrastructure that provides CI and Autolanding for launchpad projects today, together with work on the overall framework to enable coverage reporting, collection of test results etc..
  • Designed and implemented the platform-api layer for Ubuntu Touch that exposes base OS functionality like window mgmt capabilities, HW-accelerated rendering, input, sensors, camera and HW-accelerated video decoding to the QML SDK. Wrote the backend implementation that relies on hybris to provide the aforementioned functionality by leveraging existing Android components and drivers.
  • Architecture and parts of the implementation of Mir.
  • Architecture and integration of Unity Next with Mir.

Future Goals

I would like Ubuntu to be the first operating system/platform that is able to power a whole zoo of form-factors and provide users with a beautiful and efficient UX, that is consistent and seamlessly adapting to different usage scenarios, form factors and devices. At the same time I want to make sure that Ubuntu stays as open and accessible as possible, welcoming to newcomers, embracing diversity, offering a place for people to collaborate and build awesome things.

Testimonials

  • Thomas Voss is fantastic. I've met him at various UDSes, saw his work in various places and in the last few months worked together with him on making it easier to contribute to some upstream projects. He's very easy to work with, takes stressful times with his incredible sense of humour and I still have got to visit him - I promised! -- dholbach 2013-03-15 10:17:14

ThomasVoss (last edited 2013-03-28 22:06:33 by seb128)