Becoming an Ubuntu Member

Hello,

Got approved as an official Ubuntu Member today. It’s not tied to any single project — the Membership Board looks at whether your contributions have been sustained and meaningful, in whatever form they take.

Nine months in now: closing out the Calculator app’s first release last year, then most of this year rebuilding the event-creation flow in Calendar. Part of putting the application together was rounding up testimonials on my wiki page — David Planella, who runs developer relations for Ubuntu, added one a couple of days ago saying I’d “been key for core apps such as Calculator and Calendar to be available on Ubuntu phones, tablets and desktops.” Generous, but it’s roughly what membership is supposed to recognize.

Doesn’t change much about the day-to-day work. But it’s a good marker for when this stopped being a side project I was trying out and became something I actually consider myself part of. Riccardo posted his own one-year reflection a couple of weeks back — 250 commits and 10,000+ lines in, starting from zero programming experience. Good company to be keeping.