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About Me

I'm a long time Ubuntu user and big fan off all things electronic. I love building home automation gadgets and making things do stuff they weren't designed to do. I document my conquest over technology on my blog.

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When I first started out with Ubuntu I provided user support in the forums and on IRC for both Ubuntu itself and many of the applications available with it. I enjoyed working in the community and this helped me to decide that what I really wanted to do in my career was work a lot more with Ubuntu.

At the time of writing I have worked for Canonical for a total of three years and I have worn many hats during that time. I started off managing the delivery of the Ubuntu TV demos for CES and MWC in 2012. I worked with the design team, the Unity 2D team (as was) and we put together a great product demo, which is sadly yet to see the light of day - but I'm hopeful that it still will.

For the last year I have been managing the Desktop team. This involves aligning the team's priorities with the overall direction of Ubuntu. I regularly write about our teams work on Google+ and make sure that the community have access to all the latest goings on within our team. I have been a Track Lead at UOS for the last two summits and help to organise the schedule for my track, make sure the participants turn up and that everyone can access the hangout, as well as gathering together the results of the sessions and presenting them in the wrap up. I also do press interviews and community Q&A's to make sure that everyone knows what we are doing.

• Interview with OMG

• Guest post for mhall119

• A video I made to demo convergence

• Interview with IT World

• Interview with Ubuntu User Germany

• Video interview with Hak5 at CES

• Video interview with Muktware at MWC

• Bugs

• I helped out as crew for a LUGradio

Future Goals

My biggest goal is to make the 16.04 LTS release of the desktop the best yet. We have recently added Unity 7 and Compiz engineers to the desktop team, so I want to make sure we identify the most important U7 and Compiz bugs (from the thousands that are open) and make sure we get them fixed for 16.04. I want to involve the community in this process as much as possible. We also need to make sure that the 16.04 release is as maintainable as possible. Not only because it's an LTS release, but also so we can reduce the maintenance overhead in the future. We have also been lagging behind developments in power consumption and video acceleration. I would like to see these features improved in 16.04.

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