[gnome.org #11767] AutoReply: Application received from Omer Akram (om26er AT ubuntu.com)

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Contact Information:
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Name: Omer Akram
E-mail: om26er AT ubuntu.com
git.gnome.org username (if any): 

Previous GNOME Foundation member: no

GNOME contributions:
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Summary:
Hello! 

I am Omer Akram and I forward bugs from launchpad to bugzilla, triage in bugzilla and discuss directly with 
upstreams like empathy about the situation of their stack in Ubuntu. I have been sending bugs from launchpad 
for more than a year. I triage for fun and I am not a programmer at all so no bug fixes of course. I became a 
Ubuntu member only for triaging bugs.

The main part of my contributions is to empathy. I report bugs, discuss with developers on problems that need 
attention. But thats not my only contribution. In launchpad I am subscribed empathy, evolution, rhythmbox, 
totem and nautilus[1]. If there is a bug that needs special attention I usually forward it upstream. I am one 
of the top contributor in launchpad for desktop bugs management[2] and all that involves these gnome 
packages.. and some others. Although I am not a programmer but I can do basic packaging so these days I do 
SRUs<Stable Release Update> i.e. backport the fixes for important bugs from git. For example a very famous 
nautilus crash on un-mounting a usb[3] was fixed with my quick SRU. I can be called as a type of maintainer 
of empathy in Ubuntu. Also I triage on weekdays and weekends so no skips ;)

In short, I believe that my contributions to Gnome are not temporary, I have been contributing to Gnome for 
more than a year at a very consistent rate. 


[1]https://bugs.launchpad.net/~om26er/+packagebugs
[2]https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+topcontributors
[3]https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/maverick/+source/nautilus/+bug/683972

Contacts:
Guillaume Desmottes <guillaume.desmottes AT collabora.co.uk>
Empathy Developer and Gnome Foundation Member.

Sebastien Bacher <seb128 AT gnome.org>
Ubuntu Desktop Team lead and Gnome Foundation Member.

Ken VanDine <kvandine AT gnome.org>
Ubuntu integration Engineer and Gnome Foundation Member.

Other comments:
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If I become a Gnome Foundation Member, I will be the first Pakistani to become one :)

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