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I will accept questions and post my platform once the campaigning period starts on the 17th of March. My platform is in draft stage and will be available soon.

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Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)

Location

Cape Town, South Africa

Blog

https://jonathancarter.org

E-Mail

jcc@debian.org

IRC

highvoltage on oftc / freenode

Salsa profile

jcc

Ring

highvoltage

Mastodon

https://mastodon.xyz/@highvoltage

DDPO

https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=jcc

Roadmap

https://salsa.debian.org/jcc/highvoltage

2019 Activity logs

January February

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Jonathan Carter: DPL Campaign

I'm running for DPL. My self-nomination has been acked as valid by the project secretary.

My platform is in draft stage and will be available soon.


Packages

See my DDPO report page for more details on my packages. Packaging-wise, my only current goal is to get my packages in good shape for the Buster (Debian 10.0) release. When bullseye is open for development and tensorflow 1.2 hits unstable, I intend to package mozilla-deepspeech.

I'm a strong proponent of team maintained packages, and try to set a good example of that myself. My packages also fall under the LowThresholdNmu or LowThresholdAdoption initiatives.

  • collab maint team (/debian on salsa): aalib, btfs, calcoo, catimage, fonts-quicksand, fractalnow, powerlevel9k, preload, tmux-themepack-jimeh, vim-airline, vim-airline-themes, xabacus, zram-tools.

  • kde-extras team: kpmcore, partitionmanager, calamares.

  • Debian python teams: python-aniso8601 (DPMT), python-flask-autoindex (DPMT), python-flask-restful (DMPT), speedtest-cli (PAPT), bundlewrap (PAPT), pythonqt (DPMT), fabulous (DPMT), flask-silk (DPMT), s-tui (PAPT), toot (PAPT).

  • debian-jr team: tuxpaint, tuxpaint-stamps, tuxpaint-config.

  • debian-games team: gamemode, connectagram, gnubik, tanglet, tetzle.

  • debian-live team: calamares-settings-debian, live-config, live-installer, live-tasks, live-wrapper, rootskel-gtk,

  • debian-gnome team: gse-dash-to-panel, gse-dashtodock, gse-disconnect-wifi, gse-hard-disk-led, gse-hide-activities, gse-hide-veth, gse-impatience, gse-move-clock, gse-multi-monitors, gse-no-annoyance, gse-pixelsaver, gse-remove-dropdown-arrows, gse-system-monitor, gse-tilix-dropdown, gse-tilix-shortcut, gse-trash, gse-workspaces-to-dock (gnome-shell-extension is shortened to 'gse' here to save space).

  • debian-golang team: flosch-pongo2.v3.

  • debian-ltsp team: ldm-themes.

  • debian-xfce team: xfce4-screensaver.

  • debian-zfs team: zfs-auto-snapshot.

Sponsoring

When I have some time, I review and sponsor packages on the Debian mentors site.

I have sponsored over 50 uploads and granted DM permissions for more than 20 packages (my ddpo page shows less, since they dissappear when DMs become a DD).

I think that reviewing and sponsoring should be a core responsibility of Debian Developers, since they reduce friction for new contributors to get involved.

DebConf

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DebConf16 photo, copyright Jurie Senekal cc-by 4.0.

AIMS Desktop

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I'm part of the AIMS Desktop team.

AIMS Desktop is a Debian-based system that is used at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, a pan-African institution that currently has 6 centres across Africa. It includes software used in AIMS centres pre-installed (ie, Sagemath, Jupyter Notebook, Texlive, etc). AIMS Desktop used to be based on Ubuntu, so some interface elements have been modified to make the desktop experience more familiar for users.

Videos

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I have a small channel on YouTube where I create some Debian related videos. I also host these privately on highvoltage.tv, long term I intend to convert that to a PeerTube instance.

  • There is an instance of Debian Package of the Day where we explore packages in Debian. This is the first time Debian Package of the Day was tried out in video format.

  • I started working on a Debian package management series, in the future I wish to also do videos about packaging and package maintenance. These videos take some time and effort so I can't say yet when those will happen, but in the meantime I'm happy to receive ideas or collaborators.

  • You can also subscribe to an RSS feed of my entire channel by adding a link to your feed reader.

Today I Learned

In 2017 I started an IRC channel called #debian-til. I found that I kept learning things that I thought I should've already known before, and wanted to share those kind of factoids with other people that might also be interested in those. Now it's grown in a very nice social channel with around a 100 people in it, with "TIL"s shared every day by a whole bunch of people. A small accomplishment for sure, but it's something in Debian that's social, fun and educational all at the same time. We nee more of that!


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