Ubuntu Desktop new member: Daniel van Vugt

[Robert Ancell]

The Ubuntu Desktop team has accepted Daniel van Vugt to the team, welcome
Daniel!

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From: Robert Ancell <robert.ancell at canonical.com>
Date: Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 7:26 PM
Subject: Re: Application for ubuntu-desktop membership
To: Sebastien Bacher <seb128 at ubuntu.com>
Cc: Daniel van Vugt <daniel.van.vugt at canonical.com>, Ubuntu Desktop
Discussion <ubuntu-desktop at lists.ubuntu.com>


I can vouch for Daniel's long history working on desktop components and am
sure he'll continue to do great work on Ubuntu desktop. +1 from me makes
3/3 - adding him to the team now.

On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 6:47 PM Sebastien Bacher <seb128 at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Hey desktopers,
>
> I've worked with Daniel for a long time and I'm confident that he can be
> trusted with access to the desktop set. He demonstrated high quality
> work on our different desktop environments over the year, is one of our
> top upstream contributors to GNOME and understands the Ubuntu
> cycles/community/processes (SRU, freezes, ...). He's already actively
> working on our desktop packages on launchpad and salsa and having direct
> access should make things easier for everyone.
>
> +1 from me!
>
> Cheers,
> Sébastien Bacher
>
> On 18/06/2024 07:16, Daniel van Vugt wrote:
> > Hi desktoppers,
> >
> > I would like to be considered for membership in the ubuntu-desktop team.
> >
> > Starting as a Linux user in the 1990s, I moved to Ubuntu around about
> 2007. In
> > 2011 I started contributing to the Unity desktop and was asked to join
> > Canonical. In 2012 I joined the Canonical Desktop team as the full time
> > maintainer of Compiz underlying the Unity desktop. In 2013 I moved onto
> the Mir
> > team and stayed there until 2017 when I returned to the Canonical
> Desktop team
> > where I remain today.
> >
> > Throughout this time I've had countless uploads sponsored, and have
> remained
> > the top (human) contributor to bug management karma in Ubuntu for most
> of a decade.
> >
> > Being able to upload packages myself would remove the biggest delay I
> > experience in my daily work and make the whole team slightly more
> efficient.
> > Thanks for your consideration...
> >
> > - Daniel
> >
> >
>
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