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About Me

My name is Janne Jokitalo, but call me Jaska. Everybody does. I'm a finn, a wanna-be musician, and a long-time Ubuntu user/almost-developer. The first time I touched Ubuntu was in 2005 January, and I never went back. My actual participation in the development of Ubuntu and flavors began quite slowly, but now I want to make it bigger and more meaningful. Latest achievements have come from the QA side of responsibilities, but I've been a programmer for most of my professional life, so I want to utilize those skills as well.

Contact Information

Contributions

I have been a part of Ubuntu Studio community for several years now. It's clearly my main area, although just recently (during the precise cycle), as Studio started to use Xubuntu as the base of the flavor, I really started to expand beyond just one flavor boundaries. Currently I'm working as a QA contact person for both flavors, and am appointed as the QA Team lead for Xubuntu. (link)

I've occasionally provided help on #ubuntu support channel, more recently on #ubuntu+1 (as I haven't used vanilla that much lately, but have used a development release as the workstation), and especially on #ubuntustudio and now recently #xubuntu. I try to be helpful also on the corresponding mailing lists for users.

I have worked on integration of Studio, and have gained a decent knowledge on how the community utilizes bzr and UDD for the packaging.

For the quantal cycle, I'm participating in a few blueprints, with work items assigned.

Future Goals

Gaining ground in the Ubuntu community, especially in the development part of it. Overall I'm interested about the whole process, but I still get that itch of wanting to have my hands working on the very insides. So yes, first becoming a MOTU, and then gradually moving closer to the core-dev side is in the works.

Testimonials

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