<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande">Dear MOTU council,</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande">At the suggestion of my mentor, Scott Kitterman, I hereby submit my application to become a MOTU.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande">I am an associate professor of the Department of Molecular Biology, Aarhus University, specializing in macromolecular crystallography and structural bioinformatics. I am in charge of the scientific computing of our lab, and system administrator of a setup that includes ~30 workstations, dedicated servers and a small 10 CPU computing cluster. For many years, I was alone in maintaining the lab's computing setup, and consequently, I chose to package all software we are using in the lab in RPMs, which of course makes installing and distributing easy.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande">I started working with Ubuntu in the spring of 2007, when looking for a stable and reliable replacement for CentOS Linux. Shortly thereafter, I started converting all those packages to deb format. At the same time, I made the decision to share as many packages as possible through the Ubuntu and Debian Linux distributions (unfortunately a lot of the software in my field is still distributed under restrictive licenses!) My skills and experiences are further detailed on my wiki home page [1].</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande">I created a Launchpad account [2] on June 5., 2007, and registered at the REVU site. My First REVU upload was the wulfware package, on June 6. In the following months, I uploaded and got advocates for several new packages: kssh, mustang, wulfware, btk-core, theseus, gpp4, mmdb, ssm, clipper, xtide-wvs1-data and torque. I am also the upstream maintainer of some of this software.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande">This list mainly contains software that is related to my field, and in general, science software interests me the most. Users at our site were initially quite skeptical about the transition to Ubuntu, but by now the skepticism has turned to enthusiasm. That fact actually reflects the goals for my work with Ubuntu: to help create a distribution that contains a rich selection of scientific software, perfectly suited for a scientific research environment.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande">It is my intention to maintain the packages I contribute, and the most productive way is to do that by getting them accepted in Debian. Unfortunately, I have not yet had much time to promote this project. Meanwhile, I have become a member of the Debian Med team, who maintain a collection of programs in the bio-med field [3], and I maintain a couple of packages in that collection (although no uploads yet).</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande">Apart from the packaging work, I have also contributed writing and improving the documentation on the Wiki. I contributed to the packaging guide section on CDBS, I authored a draft for a guide for upstream authors (not finished), and I wrote a tutorial on how to setup KVM with a virtual network bridge. Links to this documentation can be found on my wiki page [1]. Documentation interests me, and I intend to do more of that from time to time.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande">Lately, I have been actively taking part in merging and bug-fixing and getting the Hardy Heron ready to be a truly rocking and stable distribution!</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande">I have really enjoyed the friendly and helpful atmosphere in the Ubuntu development teams, and I have often found myself on IRC asking and answering questions. I believe such a positive, friendly environment is paramount for enticing people to do their very best, and it is crucial for excellence. I feel much at home in this environment. At occasions, I have given contributor reviews for various people I have met on IRC. In my MOTU diary, I have noted packages libgee, blueproximity, neskiem, fuppes, gnomecatalog, sdlmame, vemon, and Monkeystudio.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande">I am by no means an Ubuntu wizard; I still have a lot to learn. But being a MOTU will enable me to work more efficiently both to the benefit of Ubuntu and towards my goals. And I think I have enough experience by now to help with a many of the MOTU tasks.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande">CCing (and thanking!) sponsors that I have worked with most often:</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande"> - Scott Kitterman (my mentor)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande"> - Cesare Tirabassi</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande"> - Emmet Hikory</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande"> - Siegfried Gevatter</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande"> - Stephan Hermann</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande">Cheers,</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande">Morten (aka mok0)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande">[1] <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MortenKjeldgaard">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MortenKjeldgaard</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande">[2] <a href="https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/~mok0">https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/~mok0</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande">[3] <a href="http://alioth.debian.org/projects/debian-med">http://alioth.debian.org/projects/debian-med</a></font></div></body></html>