-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear MOTU Council, Please accept this as my application to become a Master of the Universe. My name is Iulian Udrea and am seventeen year old school boy. I like reading Computer/SF books, develop open source software, play chess and work on Ubuntu development, of course. I have been involved in Ubuntu development for about one year now. I first started fixing .desktop files, write manual pages and working on bugs which had the bitesize tag. After a couple of months I dived more into Ubuntu development and started to merge and sync packages with Debian and that gave me the chance to become an Ubuntu Universe Contributor. In the Intrepid cycle I spent most of my time on merging and syncing packages with Debian. I am the maintainer of 5 packages: dpkg-awk, git-cola, salasaga, giver and gtkmm-utils. All of these packages are maintained in Debian, in a GIT repository (<a href="http://git.debian.org">git.debian.org</a>), except gtkmm-utils. I am now focused on merging and syncing packages with Debian, review packages on REVU, help and give feedback to people interested in Ubuntu development, in the motu channel on IRC. If I get the MOTU status it will obviously make my work easier. That being said I would like to get involved in the mentoring programme, helping people to become more interested in Ubuntu development. I've also done some QA uploads in Debian which helped me to understand better the processes and how Debian works. In Debian I'm involved with the QA team, helping them to fix broken packages which don't have a maintainer and identify the packages with inactive maintainers. I'm also interested in adopting more packages and fixing them as well. On the other hand I have participated in Ubuntu Developer Week (UDW) with the "Introduction to MOTU" session. There I talked about processes, how to get involved, what you need in order to become a MOTU and answered all the questions. I have also ran a session about "Bug Triage" at the Ubuntu Open Week (UOW) with an awesome guy named Pedro Villavicencio. I am CCing some of my sponsors and I would like to thank them for their great help and feedback! * Jonathan Patrick Davies (jpds) * Daniel Holbach (dholbach) * Luca Falavigna (DktrKranz) * Siegfried Gevatter (RainCT) My Launchpad profile: <a href="https://launchpad.net/people/iulian">https://launchpad.net/people/iulian</a> Thank you for considering my application, Iulian Udrea -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkklgToACgkQWLKfjPdOxsglcwCgsGSzW8PDzkr4rVfC6NKd31IB 8PcAoMlI+4nbk6Oi2H986nTS6UETCo+M =UL6G -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----