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| || '''IRC''': || '''ItzSwirlz''' on ''irc.freenode.net'' || | || '''IRC''': || '''ItzSwirlz''' on ''irc.libera.net'' || |
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| Hey there, I'm Joshua Peisach (or ItzSwirlz). I spend most of my life in the Minecraft community and leading my project [[ubuntucinnamon.org/|Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix]]. | Hey there, I'm Joshua Peisach (or ItzSwirlz). I'm currently studying computer science at Bergen County Academy's Academy of Technology and Computer Science (ATCS, ranked #3 school in New Jersey and #52 in the US) and leading Ubuntu Cinnamon. |
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| I later investigated and studied Desktop Environment's and began helping with front-end DE Development and got Ubuntu Cinnamon up and running, and hopefully will one day become an official flavor. That journey will begin with getting by [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/itzswirlz/Applications/UbuntuContributingDeveloper/|UbuntuContributingDeveloper]] Application Accepted. | I later investigated and studied Desktop Environment's and began helping with front-end DE Development and got Ubuntu Cinnamon up and running, and eventually became a flavor. That journey will begin with getting by [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/itzswirlz/Applications/UbuntuContributingDeveloper/|UbuntuContributingDeveloper]] Application Accepted. |
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| * Creating an “Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix (UCR)”, in hopes to make an official Ubuntu Cinnamon flavor. | * Creating Ubuntu Cinnamon |
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| == Myself as a Developer to the Community == This may seem ridiculous, but I see myself as the reason why Ubuntu Unity and UbuntuDDE Remix Exist-Here is why. === UbuntuDDE === One day, the developer arunpyasi asked me for our ISO Builder in my Telegram. I gave it to him and was shocked a few months later to see that "@UbuntuDDE" had followed the Ubuntu Cinnamon Twitter account. Now-keep in mind I wasn't a direct developer, I want to make that very clear. Just like me, he was helped by fossfreedom for help on packaging and ported DDE to Ubuntu aswell. So, I retweeted their tweet saying the Beta ISO for 20.04 was available, and THEN the News Writers like Jason Evangelho came out and wrote the articles and published them to the world. And that's why it's famous. I don't know how far it could've gotten if I didn't do anything but I knew I had to do it since I knew DDE was a great desktop and it could use some attention. But it ended up exploding in popularity, more than UCR (probably because they think I'm a Linux Mint Ripoff). So sometimes, I see myself as the hidden person who made UbuntuDDE's Community what it is today-and it's very great. I'm proud of Arun for what he's done and I'm excited to looking forward to working with him more. I now mostly contribute through the [[salsa.debian.org/pkg-deepin-team/|Debian Deepin Packaging Team]. === Ubuntu Unity === I had nothing to do with it's main development, but I think personally I gave rs2009 the kick into life to do it. On discourse he messaged me saying he'd help with our website (which we were already decently good with). He helped with our layout and also later suggested using Continuous Integration for building our ISO's on Github. I then heard him say he was interested in creating his own thing-so he made this thing called "Unubuntu" which I eventually got him to switch to "Ubuntu Unity Remix" which I knew existed, but was shocked when I found out a lot has changed in the past 3 months prior to the 20.04 release that ownership changed, they switched bug tracking platforms, it was a lot, but it happened and he's doing great today. |
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I first met Itzswirlz when I joined the UCR Web Dev Team. I admired how he managed the UCR project and handled the huge community on the UCR Telegram groups. He's leading the UCR team very well and UCR itself is doing great under his leadership. I would absolutely back him for his Ubuntu Membership application, as I think he deserves it. I wish him luck for all his future endeavours and look forward to working with him in the future. -- [[LaunchpadHome:rs2009]] <<DateTime(2020-10-05T11:00:49Z)>> |
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About Me
Hey there, I'm Joshua Peisach (or ItzSwirlz). I'm currently studying computer science at Bergen County Academy's Academy of Technology and Computer Science (ATCS, ranked #3 school in New Jersey and #52 in the US) and leading Ubuntu Cinnamon.
My computing journey began with my Dad, working at a Rutgers University for Protonics who was using CentOS and I found VirtualBox, where essentially I messed with old versions of Windows and found Linux, with the start of Ubuntu.
When I got a more powerful personal laptop in 2018, capable of more disk space, I dual-booted Windows 10 with Fedora Cinnamon, which I later switched to Ubuntu to get back to my familiar feel of Unity (although I prefer GNOME but Unity is also nice).
I later investigated and studied Desktop Environment's and began helping with front-end DE Development and got Ubuntu Cinnamon up and running, and eventually became a flavor. That journey will begin with getting by UbuntuContributingDeveloper Application Accepted.
Contributions
A lot of my Contributions have mainly been Developer related that you can find at my Developer Application. Here are my main accomplishments you should highlight:
- Creating Ubuntu Cinnamon
- Helping with bug squashing and patching.
- Helping with ISO and QA test assurance.
- Helping on Improving Features
- Working with patching bugs Upstream if possible
- Helping out with Debian Packaging
Community
Something I could be a lot more a part of! I've mostly been active on Discourse.
- I was in the Ubuntu Hideout Discord Server (Unofficial Ubuntu Discord Fan Server, will rejoin soon)
- I've been fascinating ideas for front-end design, such as talking about DE's with others.
- I've discussed about theming Yaru in different colors and using it more.
My Groups
I've helped out in the following groups:
- All Ubuntu Flavors - Bug Squashing
- Ubuntu Quality/Testing
- Ubuntu Community Team
Pre-Programming Life: Minecraft
More is in my UbuntuContributingDeveloper application, but in short:
Minecraft Modifications exist and I created my own (now cringy) mod that you can find here.
Progressive Programming
Following other Youtube Tutorials and reading documentation/books, I began learning:
- Java (more actual Java)
- C++/C
- Batch/Bash
- Python
- Ruby
- Perl
- HTML/CSS
- Played a bit with Objective-C/Swift
- Recently, Golang
I feel like I've done more languages btu that's that.
I haven't been successful really in making apps and stuff from ground-up: but I have been good of building with others and working on great projects.
Launchpad and QA
One of the things I did in Free Time when I didn't know what else to do was test the ISO's from QA-here is a chart of testcases I've done via QA from my UbuntuContributingDeveloper Application:
Version |
Type |
Position |
Testcases |
Bionic |
Daily |
134 |
2 |
Disco |
Final |
40 |
1 |
Eoan |
Daily |
22 |
17 |
Focal |
Beta |
14 |
7 |
Focal |
Final |
10 |
16 |
Focal |
Daily |
7 |
77 |
Groovy |
Daily |
8 |
6 |
Total |
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126 |
- My Karma Level: 604 (and counting?)
- I've reported 16 Launchpad Bugs (probably more)
- Continue to periodically search around and use it frequently.
Future Goals
- Dont be a jerk to people.
- Work on getting my Developer Application accepted
- Apply for a PPU for my UCR Packages
- Get a bigger and better development team
- Apply for Flavor Status
Other Info
If I didn't list anything here or think I'm missing something, check my developer application. It's probably somewhere in there.
Testimonials
Note: If you have anything nice to say about this person, please do add it below along with @ SIG @ (no spaces). The @ SIG @ command will sign your name and date/time it after you "Save Changes".
I first met Itzswirlz when I joined the UCR Web Dev Team. I admired how he managed the UCR project and handled the huge community on the UCR Telegram groups. He's leading the UCR team very well and UCR itself is doing great under his leadership. I would absolutely back him for his Ubuntu Membership application, as I think he deserves it. I wish him luck for all his future endeavours and look forward to working with him in the future. -- rs2009 2020-10-05 11:00:49
itzswirlz (last edited 2025-08-01 13:08:36 by itzswirlz)