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Rob Collins joined the Launchpad team recently. Here’s a bit about him. Matthew: What do you do on the Launchpad team? Rob: I’m the Architect for Launchpad - I’m responsible for guiding the development and technology choices we make so that Launchpad can meet …
Jon Sackett joined the Launchpad Registry team a couple of weeks ago. Here’s a quick run-down of who he is. Matthew: What do you do on the Launchpad team? Jon: I’m part of the Registry team; we maintain the people, teams and projects bits and pieces used by all the …
Image no longer available: Benji YorkRecently, Benji York joined Canonical’s Launchpad team. I asked him a little about himself and his work. Matthew: What do you do on the Launchpad team? Benji: I work on the Foundations team. Right now I’m concentrating on the web …
Steve Kowalik recently joined the Soyuz part of the Launchpad team at Canonical, so I asked him the, by now familiar, questions! Matthew: What were you doing before you joined the Launchpad team? Steve: I worked on the Ubuntu Mobile team for 2.5 years before switching to the …
Jelmer Vernooij recently joined the Launchpad team at Canonical, so I caught up with him to give him the usual Meet the developers interview. Matthew: What do you do on the Launchpad team? Jelmer: I work in the Soyuz team, where I hack on the build system, package management and …
Francis Lacoste recently started on a six-month stint of running the Canonical Launchpad team. It seemed like a good time to find out a little more about him. Matthew: How did you get into free software? Francis: It was 1996, with a few friends at university, we started an …
Image no longer available: Matt Revell Our intrepid communications expert, the venerable Matthew Revell, has been quite busy interviewing the Launchpad developers of late. I thought I’d turn the tables on him and ask a few questions! So, here goes: Julian: Mr Revell, …
Image no longer available: Deryck Hodge and a hat Recently, Deryck Hodge took over from Bjorn Tillenius as the leader of Canonical’s Launchpad Bug Tracker team. That seemed like a good chance to catch up with Deryck. I’ll post an updated interview with Bjorn soon …
We’re back on the Meet the devs trail and this time we’re heading for Launchpad’s most easterly UK-based developer! Let’s meet Gavin Panella. Matthew: What do you do on the Launchpad team? Gavin: I work on the Bugs team, adding useful new features and …
Jeroen Vermeulen gives us our first Asian stop-off in the Meet the devs series. Matthew: What do you do on the Launchpad team? Jeroen: I work on the Translations application. That’s where we translate software (including all of Ubuntu’s “main” section!) …