The GNOME Conference 2006 Booklet - GNOME Project Listing

The GNOME Conference
After Hours Workshops
GNOME and the Distros:
the Ubuntu Experience
Sebastien Bacher and Daniel Holbach will present their
relationship to the GNOME project from an Ubuntu point of
view. One part of the talk features efforts of the testing
community, the workflow of bug communication and
decisions in the release process. Apart from that,
involvement in the distribution development is highlighted.
The last part of the talk depicts plans at the horizon to make
upstream development easier.
Sébastien Bacher
Having felt the GNOME love early, Sébastien Bacher contributed to the
GNOME project in various ways. As a Debian maintainer, he attracted
attention with his work on GNOME packaging. Furthermore, he triaged
bugs in the Debian world and for various GNOME modules.
Today he works on GNOME for Ubuntu, still packaging whole releases in
a day or two and getting Ubuntu bugs into shape as well. He's one of the
gnome-control-center module maintainers in GNOME and is as
passionate as Vincent Untz about French as the primary Ubuntu and
GNOME language.
Daniel Holbach
Daniel Holbach started working on Ubuntu about two years ago, when
he should have focussed on his thesis instead. Having been a GNOME
user for ages, he suddenly found himself next to Sébastien "seb128"
Bacher and tried very hard to live up to Séb's example; managing
GNOME in Ubuntu and working through huge piles of bug reports.
Apart from that, Daniel is involved in a lot of Ubuntu's teams and tries to
make it as easy as possible for teams and their members to achieve
whatever they're planning to do.
He lives in Berlin, enjoys Drum'n'Bass music, has a dog named Murphy,
and started to read Harry Potter in the fourth language.
Thu 29 18:00
1. Carpa
Catwalk Talk
June 24–30, 2006 • Vilanova (Catalonia – Spain) 59