My application for "Ubuntu Universe Contributors"

[Michele Angrisano]

Emanuele Gentili ha scritto:
> Dear MOTU Council,
>
> Please consider my application to become a Universe Contributor.
>
> https://edge.launchpad.net/~emgent
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/emgent
>
> I live in Orvieto, a small city in Italy, near Rome, with medieval
> origins. At the moment I work in the web-apps coding branch and as a
> journalist in an Italian linux magazine called Linux PRO. Also, I
> teach in ICT formation courses. My main hobbies are: IT-Security, Free
> Software, politics and folk music.
>
> I joined Ubuntu on July 2005 with 5.04 "Hoary", but I started to
> contribute in September 2007. I created an account (2007-11-09) on
> launchpad and later in forums to give support to people and community.
>
> I'm working to the Ubuntu Motu-Swat [0],  Ubuntu White Hat [1] (I'm
> coordinator), Ubuntu Server [2], Ubuntu Italia Developers [3] and Ubuntu
> Hardened [4]. My speciality is "ubuntu security" (auditing), I examined
> REVU, launchpad, Soyuz, and ubuntu.com and I found more security
> issue, now fixed [5].
>
> I started contributing to MOTU community[6] with security bug fix
> (mailman, libcdio,
> phpmyadmin, vlc, lighttpd, libnet-dns-perl, horde3, cacti, audit,
> sympa, smarty, drupal5
> and more..), security auditing (phpbb[7] and more..), merge, sync, SRU
> bug fix and
> packaging for my personal PPA (doop and deluxebb ready for intrepid
> and i`m working to grsecurity).
>
> In the future, I would like to focus in Security for develope Ubuntu
> WhiteHat team (and anteater [8]), help in other SecurityTeam branch,
> and maintain  packages.
>
>
> CCing my sponsors and I would say at them a big "Thank You" for their
> feedbacks:
>
> Kees Cook
> Jamie Strandboge
> Stephan Hermann
> William Grant
> Michele Angrisano
>
> [0] https://edge.launchpad.net/~motu-swat
> [1] https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-whitehat
> [2] https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-server
> [3] https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-it-dev
> [4] https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-hardened
> [5] https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/207490
>     https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/207494
>     https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/208327
>     https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/soyuz/+bug/204617
>     https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu-website/+bug/180468
> [6] https://edge.launchpad.net/~emgent/+packages
> [7] https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/phpbb2/+bug/181853
> [8]
> https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-whitehat/ubuntu-whitehat-project/uwht
>
>
> See you in Prague!
>
> E.
>
I've sponsored a few of his packages and the quality of them is very good.
His work is constant. He's very enthusiast of work with us to refine
Ubuntu and I'm happy to sponsor his Universe Contributor application.

Thanks a lot Emanuele for your important work.