Andre Klapper

Current

Maemo.org Bugmaster at Openismus GmbH
Member at GNOME Release Team
Member at GNOME Bugsquad

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Past

Technical Administrator at Technical University of Braunschweig, Department for Social Sciences
GNOME Evolution Bugmaster at Novell Inc.
Teacher for computer usage at Weser-BfA-Clinic Bad Pyrmont (Self-employed)

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Education

Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig
Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze

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Andre Klapper’s Summary

Maemo.org Bugmaster and former GNOME Evolution Bugmaster (partially as contractor for Novell Inc.): Organizing and prioritizing incoming user feedback and making developers aware of severe issues.

Andre Klapper’s Specialties:

Work and interact closely with multiple software projects and their maintainers. Good prioritisation, able to resolve conflicts. Experience of working with Open Source community projects and the upstream (GNOME)/downstream (distributor) relationship.

Andre Klapper’s Experience

Maemo.org Bugmaster

Openismus GmbH

(Computer Software industry)

May 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

Organizing and prioritizing incoming user feedback and making developers aware of severe issues.
Member

GNOME Release Team

(Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)

August 2006 — Present (3 years)

Decisions on application module inclusions, Identifying and reviewing showstopper bug reports and nagging developers to fix issues, Setting up release schedules, Working with Linux distributions to get important patches backported downstream
Member

GNOME Bugsquad

(Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)

2003 — Present (6 years)

Triaging incoming GNOME bug reports and identify important issues, Talking to developers, General user support.
Number #1 all-time GNOME bug closer: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/reports/weekly-bug-summary.cgi?days=5000&products=0
Technical Administrator

Technical University of Braunschweig, Department for Social Sciences

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

October 2004 — January 2007 (2 years 4 months)

Software & hardware installation and consultancy, Inventory tracking, General user support
GNOME Evolution Bugmaster

Novell Inc.

(Public Company; Computer Software industry)

March 2006 — June 2006 (4 months)

GNOME Evolution Bugmaster as contractor for Novell Inc. (same tasks as GNOME Bugsquad nowadays)
Teacher for computer usage
Weser-BfA-Clinic Bad Pyrmont (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Education Management industry)

April 2002 — August 2002 (5 months)

Teacher (contracted) for computer and internet usage for employees at Weser-BfA-Klinik Bad Pyrmont (Preparation of slides and handouts, Exercises)