<div dir="ltr">Hello everyone: I'd like to apply to become and Ubuntu Core Developer.  I have attempted to write a few sentences for each of the major areas I focus around on my wiki page [1].  This probably doesn't speak for everything however, as when I look at my launchpad page [2], I seem to be involved with more. I work on Ubuntu wearing multiple hats [3], with different requirements from each.  I come from a community hat working on the Mythbuntu project and all the extended teams touched by it.  I come from an OEM hat working on hardware enablement for Dell hardware.  I also like to work on general bugs that I come across that bother me personally but don't have a direct benefit to my other roles.  Naturally working on Ubuntu from so many fronts does cause a lot of overlap in the work that I end up doing.  Being a MOTU greatly benefits the Mythbuntu project, and is helpful for a few of the things that I end up working on personally.  A lot of  the work that I have done for enabling Dell hardware however ends up being in packages that are in main, so often I'll end up having to find a sponsor, or publish the changes to a bzr branch and ask for a merge.  Core-dev is the appropriate progression here to benefit the multiple roles I hold. I have a special ACL for uploading DKMS to main right now [4], so I have been maintaining DKMS for a little bit in main in Intrepid.  For the past year it's been in Universe, so I have been able to upload using MOTU rights. I'm attempting to CC people that I can remember have worked with me or sponsored packages that headed into main/restricted in the past:  * Martin Pitt (hal/fglrx/libsmbios)  * Evan Dandrea & Colin Watson (ubiquity/partman-auto/busybox)  * Luke Yelavich (bluez-utils, ekiga, gst-plugins-good0.10)  * Kees Cook (lirc/imagemagick/libsmbios)  * Tim Gardner (kernel, lum) The ability to upload DKMS to main has helped to get the specification to move the binary drivers out of LRM and based on building kernel modules on the user's system more feasible to implement as I can solve DKMS bugs and upload myself.  I have been doing the uploads for fglrx throughout all of Intrepid purposely while the drivers have lived in multiverse.  Eventually the package will need to go to restricted at which point I would need to start looking for a sponsor or gain core-dev rights to do the uploads. Through all of the different hats that I wear, my top priority is to make Ubuntu a great experience however I can.  I will likely continue to work with the same packages and teams that I've been currently working with.  I've worked long enough in the Ubuntu ecosystem that I understand the workflow throughly and can continue to be an asset. Regards [1] <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/superm1" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/superm1</a> [2] <a href="https://launchpad.net/%7Esuperm1" target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/~superm1</a> [3] <a href="https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/28688" target="_blank">https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/28688</a> [4] <a href="https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/soyuz/+bug/134456/" target="_blank">https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/soyuz/+bug/134456/</a> -- Mario Limonciello <a href="mailto:superm1@ubuntu.com" target="_blank">superm1@ubuntu.com</a> </div>