[gnome.org #16214] AutoReply: Application received from Matthias Klumpp (matthias AT tenstral.net)

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Full Name: Matthias Klumpp
Email:     matthias AT tenstral.net

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Contributions Summary:
Hi!
Sorry for the delay. I am an existing foundation member and received my renewal note while being at the 
Debian Developer's Conference, Debconf, Taiwan. Due to travelling around the past three weeks at different 
conferences, writing a reply was difficult.
My contributions to GNOME shifted in strange directions, and are a bit less nowadays, unfortunately.

* I continue to maintain the AppStream Freedesktop specification[1] for software center metadata. It's a 
close collaboration with Richard Hughes, as before, to ensure GNOME Software is working well but also other 
software centers outside of GNOME are happy.

* As part of my work for Purism, I did a bit of GNOME phone stuff, and even more adjustments to make GNOME 
work better on Debian. At the moment, I am working on upstreaming some of the changes to the respective 
projects (systemd and gnome-initial-setup[2])

* I helped with making the D programming language work better with the GNOME platform. The majority of the 
work was done by Mike Wey with his gir-to-d[3] project as well as via the Tilix terminal emulator, but I 
provided a lot of feedback and bugfixes. I also wrote proper Meson integration for D, and brought the full 
package to Debian. One motivation of this was that some of Purism's infrastructure is written in D and needs 
to use GLib-based libraries (like libappstream), the other being the hope that D might be an easily 
accessible language for people to write GUI apps for GNOME, as Tilix[4] had demonstrated before.

* A lot of background work on Flatpak integration has been going on at Purism, and I might join the Flathub 
team to develop a FSF-free Flathub branch that Purism's PureOS can ship with by default. Sadly, nothing 
public is available yet.

My work with Purism as well as other things (thesis writing...) unfortunately put a large dent in my overall 
FLOSS activities, and I am not sure if this is enough to warrant me staying a foundation member.
But I would of course be pleased if it was! (And hopefully next year I will also manage to get to GUADEC 
again which I missed this year)

With kind regards,
    Matthias

[1]: https://github.com/ximion/appstream
[2]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-initial-setup/tree/wip/mak/hostname
[3]: https://github.com/gtkd-developers/gir-to-d
[4]: https://gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web/

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