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My Name is Alberto Milone. I'm from Lecce, Italy. I work as a software engineer for Canonical's OEM Solutions Group where I'm the X.org expert.

= My Ubuntu story =

I have used Ubuntu since April 2005. When I tried it, fell in love with it, left Windows and never looked back. I learnt a lot on ubuntuforums.org and I thanks to all the people who were so kind to help me. I decided to pay back the community by providing technical support on the forums and by writing guides (mostly aimed at new users). I also became a moderator on the same forums.

At a certain point I decided to teach myself programming and to get involved in software development so as to fix the problems that I had tried to get around with my guides.

I started developing my own projects and, thanks to the help of some Ubuntu developers (Daniel Holbach, Bryce Harrington, Martin Pitt, Sebastien Bacher and others) I became increasingly more involved in the development of Ubuntu.

Now I'm completely absorbed in in the development of Ubuntu (for both Ubuntu and Canonical's OEM projects) and I really like to upstream the result of my work.
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 * X.org work (especially on touchpads and RandR).
 * Moderator on ubuntuforums.org

For more comprehensive coverage of my technical involvement in Ubuntu, see [[AlbertoMilone|my wiki homepage]].
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 * Abiword: [[http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11789|abisource #11789]]

 * Gnome Power Manager: "Gnome Power Manager causes high CPU usage" ([[http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=568162|gnome #568162]], [[https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-power/+bug/307306|LP: #307306]])

 * Gnome Settings Daemon: "Gnome Settings daemon causes high CPU usage" ([[http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=568160|gnome #568160]], [[https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-desktop/+bug/307306|LP: #307306]])

 * X.org Synaptics driver:
  * "Touchpad is sensitive over physical button area" ([[http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21613|freedesktop-bugs #21613]], [[https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/+bug/365952|LP: #365952]])
  * "Mouse cursor jumps when two fingers are used" ([[http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21614|freedesktop-bugs #20912]], [[https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/+bug/365943|LP: #365943]])
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 * X.org components.

 * Cooperation with other Ubuntu development teams such as the Ubuntu Desktop Team.
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 * Cooperate more with Debian developers on X.org bugs (while currently I work more with either Ubuntu or upstream developers).
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 * I would like to increase my role in the Ubuntu development, especially by making sure that the OEM team and the Platform team can benefit from each other's work thus avoiding to duplicate efforts.
 
 * I am currently writing a UI to configure touchpads for the OEM team which I hope to contribute to the Ubuntu Desktop as soon as it's ready.
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I, Alberto Milone, apply for core-dev.

Who I am

My Name is Alberto Milone. I'm from Lecce, Italy. I work as a software engineer for Canonical's OEM Solutions Group where I'm the X.org expert.

My Ubuntu story

I have used Ubuntu since April 2005. When I tried it, fell in love with it, left Windows and never looked back. I learnt a lot on ubuntuforums.org and I thanks to all the people who were so kind to help me. I decided to pay back the community by providing technical support on the forums and by writing guides (mostly aimed at new users). I also became a moderator on the same forums.

At a certain point I decided to teach myself programming and to get involved in software development so as to fix the problems that I had tried to get around with my guides.

I started developing my own projects and, thanks to the help of some Ubuntu developers (Daniel Holbach, Bryce Harrington, Martin Pitt, Sebastien Bacher and others) I became increasingly more involved in the development of Ubuntu.

Now I'm completely absorbed in in the development of Ubuntu (for both Ubuntu and Canonical's OEM projects) and I really like to upstream the result of my work.

My involvement

  • X.org work (especially on touchpads and RandR).
  • Moderator on ubuntuforums.org

For more comprehensive coverage of my technical involvement in Ubuntu, see my wiki homepage.

Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of

Areas of work

  • X.org components.
  • Cooperation with other Ubuntu development teams such as the Ubuntu Desktop Team.

Things I could do better

  • Cooperate more with Debian developers on X.org bugs (while currently I work more with either Ubuntu or upstream developers).

Plans for the future

General

  • I would like to increase my role in the Ubuntu development, especially by making sure that the OEM team and the Platform team can benefit from each other's work thus avoiding to duplicate efforts.
  • I am currently writing a UI to configure touchpads for the OEM team which I hope to contribute to the Ubuntu Desktop as soon as it's ready.

What I like least in Ubuntu

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