Mario Sanchez Prada created an issue #77:
Personal details
GNOME Account name (UID): msanchez
Description
I have been a proud member of the GNOME Foundation since January 2011, when I joined because of my contributions as part of my job at Igalia (accessibility, WebKitGTK+, libsoup) and my work in Frogr (see details below). Then I got more and more engaged with GNOME (GUADECs did help a lot on that!) and eventually moved to Endless (in 2014), where I kept contributing to different parts of GNOME as part of my job there at the same time that felt more and more connected with the GNOME community.
However, these days I'm mostly focused working on the Chromium project as part of my job at Igalia (which I rejoined in 2018) and, between that and the scarce spare time for personal projects I currently have out of work hours (and which I mostly spend with family & kids these days), I don't really foresee an steady stream of contributions from my side other than the eventual bugfix here and there, as well as general maintenance of Frogr.
For this reason, I'd like to request Emeritus Status so that I can keep my affiliation with GNOME, as well as my msanchez gnome org email alias, which I still use in several places these days. Also, I'd like to keep if possible write access to GitLab or at the very least to the Frogr repository, so that I can keep maintaining that project (even if it's at a very low pace). Finally, if I could keep my blog syndicated in Planet GNOME, that would be awesome as well (I've syndicated a tag, not the full blog, so I can still control what goes there and what doesn't).
Anyway, this is not a goodbye and I do hope that later on in the future I'll be requesting to become a full member again, but for the time being it feels to me like requesting to become Emeritus (+ write access to at least the Frogr repository + keeping my blog in Planet GNOME) would be the best thing for me.
Looking forward to hearing from you, thanks a lot for processing my application!
Contributions
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Lead developer of Frogr, a small GNOME application for uploading pictures to Flickr that I've started developing in 2009 and that I still maintain these days, after more than 10 years (now mostly bugfixes and updates to newer versions of the libraries). It might sound strange to some people to use Flickr in 2021, but I just checked and there are 10245 authenticated users (a 20% increase over the last time I checked) and I can see multiple API calls every day from the dashboart, so it's defintely not just me who's using this :-).
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Former member of the WebKitGTK+ team during 2010-2013 as part as my job at Igalia, mainly contributing to accessibility related code (improving ATK support in WebKitGTK+) and to the the implementation of the new API based in WebKit2, as well as to ATK and AT-SPI. Related to this I also worked on enabling accessibility in WebKit2GTK+ based applications too and participated of the WebKitGTK+ Hackfests, both as atendee and as part of the organization team.
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Also in Igalia, some contributions to Epiphany as well (pre 2013), mainly the implementation a new ad blocker extension for Epiphany, based in Adblock Plus rules (as Midori does), and some other contributions as demanded from my work in the WebKit2GTK+ API (e.g. Port the WK's favicons API to WK2)
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Between 2014 and 2018 I've contributed to several many other GNOME projects as part of my job in Endless, such as glib, GTK, gnome-control-center, gnome-initial-setup, rhythmbox, gtk, gnome-software... and many others, as part of my daily work in the Endless OS platform. Worth pointing out that, as part of my job ther I eventually moved onto maintaining Endless' downstream fork of GNOME Shell with the fairly daunting task of upgrading Endless OS from GNOME Shell 3.8 to 3.22, which got me contributing to upstream's GNOME Shell and projects related to it (i.e. gnome-shell, mutter).
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Last, and although not strictly a GNOME project, I've also contributed to Flatpak, xdg-desktop-portal and xdg-desktop-portal-gtk, helping make releases of these last two for a while as well.
...and perhaps some other things I'm failing to remember now, I guess
References
Keeping the same list of people who supported me in my latest renewal (2019):
- Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias: Member of the Accessibility teams, ATK maintainer.
- Emmanuele Bassi: GNOME's GTK core developer and maintainer of several projects (GSK, Graphene, Emeus, Clutter...). Contributor to GLib, GTK+, and other core libraries. GNOME
- Carlos Garcia Campos: WebKitGTK+ and Evince maintainer
- Philip Withnall: Maintainer of GLib and contributor to many other GNOME projects.
- Richard Hughes: Maintainer of several projects (GNOME Software, GNOME PackageKit, GNOME Power Manager, GNOME Color Manager, UPower, and PackageKit...)