It’s been almost a month now since I started working for Canonical. I was hired as a “Sustaining Engineer (System)” in the Foundations team which, in turn, is part of the OEM Services team, whose offices are located in Lexington, Massachussets, USA (I work from home though).
I mainly do work on X.org related stuff (e.g. touchpads, graphics drivers, etc.) in order to solve problems such as the ones that Canonical’s customers report and to develop new things (I hope to be able to blog about my new projects).
I really like this job as it allows me to work on the things I’m passionate about in a very friendly and relaxed work environment. It means a lot to me.
I would like to thank all the people who made this possible, the ones who kept providing me with new challenges in Ubuntu which made me acquire experience that is proving extremely valuable in my job. I would also like to thank all the people who supported me and encouraged me to apply for this job at Canonical, my team mates and team manager(s) who helped me move my first steps at work and to feel at ease and deeply involved in the OEM team, and the impressive amount of people who congratulated me on IRC on my first day of work. It was a warm welcome that I’ll never forget.
It’s an honour to work with you and I hope we can all work together to fix bug #1.
I hope to see you at the next UDS in Barcelona in May.
Posted by Alberto Milone | March 29, 2009 3:35 pm
Filed under: GNU/Linux, Planet, Ubuntu
Comments (17) |
March 29th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
Congratulations on the new job and I am glad that you are enjoying. We need more and better OEM deals.
Bug #1 is my concern as well.
Keep enjoying your job.
March 29th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
Chiming in with congratulations. I apparently missed the announcement of you starting the job. It happens. Best of wishes, and have a great time.
March 29th, 2009 at 6:57 pm
Congratulations from Italy
It is really an honour for us Italians to have such a developer. Especially for South Italy
One month ago or so I read your interview on: http://www.ubuntu-it.org/index.php?page=alberto-milone
To make it short, I couldn’t believe you were still unemployed
In my view, thinking about all your hard work on Envy, this was really incredible and totally unfair.
Now I see everything has changed for the better
Thanks a lot for your work for Ubuntu: and W l’Italia
March 29th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
Alberto,
I’m happy to hear that and wish you good luck with the new job!
March 30th, 2009 at 6:58 pm
Thrilled to have you on board
Expect some abuse 
March 31st, 2009 at 7:50 pm
Congratulations!
April 2nd, 2009 at 10:06 am
Bravissimo complimenti, non ti so dire a quante persone ho consigliato Envy quando ho scoperto che il programmatore era un italiano per giunta del sud ero contentissimo, incredibile che un ragazzo delle tue capacità ancora non avesse un lavoro ( letto intervista su ubuntu-it ), spero davvero che tu riesca a fare tutte quel lavoro su xorg che , secondo me , è l’unica parte non al passo coi tempi di tutto il mondo linux.
Bravobravobravo e graziegrazie grazie.
April 2nd, 2009 at 10:10 am
Veryvery well, i don’t know how many people i suggest envy to. When i knew that you are Italian, from the south too, i’m very happy. I didn’t belive that you didn’t have a job yet. I hope that you can realize all yopur project, expecially about xorg.
Congratulations!!
April 2nd, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Contrats Alberto. You deserved it! Well done!
April 3rd, 2009 at 11:54 am
Grandissimo alberto!
Sono felice per te
April 6th, 2009 at 9:35 pm
Sorry if I speak in italian
Grande Alberto!
Anche se ti conosco solo di fama, sono contentissimo per te, te lo meriti!
Ciaooo!
April 15th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
Con grande soddisfazione come Italiano e utente Ubuntu, aprendo della tua assunzione in canonical. Che tu sia di esempio per altri giovani Italiani.
Ancora tanti auguri.
April 27th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
Congrats! Your EnvyNG rocks!!
May 1st, 2009 at 8:18 am
Felicidades , y gracias por ENVYNG .
May 5th, 2009 at 5:26 am
[...] to matter a whole lot less as the Envy creator is now heavily involved with Xorg on Ubuntu and propriatary video driver support upcoming Ubuntu releases. But for now, despite any improvements or short comings to be had with the [...]
May 6th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Grande!
Innanzitutto complimenti per il tuo lavoro
Grazie per le tue collaborazioni in Ubuntu (io sono un neofita in Ubuntu)
Complimenti per il sito e blog (bella grafica, lineare, snella, semplice e intuitiva) Hai un futuro perché hai grandi potenzialità!
Un solo appunto …. non c’è nulla in italiano ??
In bocca al lupo
Phil
June 27th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
congratulazioni!
E in bocca al lupo!