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'''I, <YOUR NAME>, apply for <universe-contributor|MOTU|core-dev|upload rights for package(s) <X>>.''' ||<tablestyle="float:right; font-size: 0.9em; width:40%; background:#F1F1ED; margin: 0 0 1em 1em;" style="padding:0.5em;">'''Contents'''<<BR>><<TableOfContents(2)>>||
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|| '''Name''' || <YOUR NAME> ||
|| '''Launchpad Page''' || <link to your launchpad page> ||
|| '''Wiki Page''' || <link to your Wiki page> ||


|| '''Name''' || Alessandro Ghersi ||
|| '''Launchpad Page''' || https://launchpad.net/~alessandro-ghersi ||
|| '''Wiki Page''' || https://wiki.ubuntu.com/alessandro-ghersi ||
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''Tell us a bit about yourself.'' I live in [[http://tiny.cc/2wq0f|Loano]], a small town in Italy. I've been a regular Kubuntu user since Gutsy. I like to contribute to Kubuntu as much as my time allows.
I'm a fanatic of [[http://abc.go.com/shows/lost|Lost]]
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''Tell us how and when you got involved, what you liked working on and what you could probably do better.'' Kubuntu was my first Linux distribution I've installed in my computer and I never left it.
After installing it, I started to study how it worked and giving support in the italian forum, I'm still doing this but in a different way, I keep now update users about what we are doing in the Kubuntu development.
I writed also some wiki page in italian wiki about how Kubuntu and KDE applications works, there was none one about KDE/Kubuntu before that.
I started to partecipate with Italian Marketing Team to ship CDs to people without broadband and ship stickers made by System76.
Then, I started to work in the Kubuntu development and I became Kubuntu Ninjas and Kubuntu member.
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== My involvement ==
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There is no specific work for which I am proud of it. I am proud to partecipate in the development of Kubuntu. Anyway:

 * KDE package maintenance in general.
 * KDE merges with Debian: [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kubuntu/KarmicKDEMerges|Karmic]] (only 1 package) - [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kubuntu/LucidKDEMerges|Lucid]] - [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kubuntu/MaverickKDEMerges|Maverick]]
 * All of the KDE/Qt applications I've been able to package
 * Fix for these two bugs at the end of Lucid cycle:
  * https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kubuntu-default-settings/+bug/551290
  * https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hal/+bug/528907
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''Let us know what you worked on, with which development teams / developers you cooperated and how it worked out.''
## As a per-package uploader, please give us some insight into the package maintenance and bug situation since you're working on it.

I'm involved with the maintenance of our core KDE packages, I like to work in packaging release of KDE and in its build dependends, I started with KDE 4.2.3
I work very hard also in backporting KDE release. I am active with other non-core KDE packages that are in main like Qt libs, phonon, digikam, QtCurve, K3b, Ktorrent, etc, and all KDE build-depends.
Every development cycle starts I do many merges with Debian. I like also keeping update the KDE/Qt packages in the Universe repository.
I can do library transitions, upgrades, merges, and I can make package with cdbs and debhelper.
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I would like to do more bug triage like I did in the end of the cycle of Lucid, but spare time is not enough sometimes.

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I plan to keep on maintaining the core KDE packages as well as non-core KDE applications in both main and universe. I will do what I can do, like I did in the other cycles
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''Please describe what you like least in Ubuntu and what thoughts do you have about fixing it.''




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## Uncomment the one that applies for you and please remove the others.
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## [[CategoryCoreDevApplication]]
## [[CategoryMOTUApplication]]
## [[CategoryUniverseContributorApplication]]
## [[CategoryPerPackageUploaderApplication]]
[[CategoryMOTUApplication]]

Who I am

I live in Loano, a small town in Italy. I've been a regular Kubuntu user since Gutsy. I like to contribute to Kubuntu as much as my time allows. I'm a fanatic of Lost

My Ubuntu story

Kubuntu was my first Linux distribution I've installed in my computer and I never left it. After installing it, I started to study how it worked and giving support in the italian forum, I'm still doing this but in a different way, I keep now update users about what we are doing in the Kubuntu development. I writed also some wiki page in italian wiki about how Kubuntu and KDE applications works, there was none one about KDE/Kubuntu before that. I started to partecipate with Italian Marketing Team to ship CDs to people without broadband and ship stickers made by System76. Then, I started to work in the Kubuntu development and I became Kubuntu Ninjas and Kubuntu member.

Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of

There is no specific work for which I am proud of it. I am proud to partecipate in the development of Kubuntu. Anyway:

Areas of work

I'm involved with the maintenance of our core KDE packages, I like to work in packaging release of KDE and in its build dependends, I started with KDE 4.2.3 I work very hard also in backporting KDE release. I am active with other non-core KDE packages that are in main like Qt libs, phonon, digikam, QtCurve, K3b, Ktorrent, etc, and all KDE build-depends. Every development cycle starts I do many merges with Debian. I like also keeping update the KDE/Qt packages in the Universe repository. I can do library transitions, upgrades, merges, and I can make package with cdbs and debhelper.

Things I could do better

I would like to do more bug triage like I did in the end of the cycle of Lucid, but spare time is not enough sometimes.

Plans for the future

General

I plan to keep on maintaining the core KDE packages as well as non-core KDE applications in both main and universe. I will do what I can do, like I did in the other cycles

What I like least in Ubuntu


Comments

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Endorsements

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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 ===


CategoryMOTUApplication

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