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Nicholas Skaggs Joining The Canonical Community Team

by | Mon 12 Dec 2011

I am pleased to announce that we will be welcoming a new horseman to the Canonical Community Team. His name is is *Nicholas Skaggs*, he is based in Florida (as well as Jorge and Michael), and he will be joining in January 2012 as our *QA Community Coordinator*.

Nicholas will be growing our QA community and his focus in his first few months will be on assessing the on-ramp for participating in QA in Ubuntu, and growing a comprehensive community of testers and triagers. He will have a particular focus on manual testing and a regular cadence of testing throughout the release cycle. I am excited to welcome him aboard the team!

When Nicholas joins, the team will look like this and their primary responsibilities:

* **Daniel Holbach** – coordinating and growing Ubuntu developers.
* **Jorge Castro** – growing the Juju and cloud communities and encouraging the development of charms.
* **David Planella** – growing our app developer community, as well as coordinating our translators community.
* **Michael Hall** – working with upstreams, and a particular focus on helping Canonical upstreams to have a great community relationship.
* **Nicholas Skaggs** – growing our QA community, with a particular focus on manual testing and triage.
* **Me** – I manage the team and work with Canonical and community stakeholders to develop strategy around where we focus community resources and growth.

You can read more about the team from [this earlier blog entry](https://archivedblog.jonobacon.com/2011/11/23/behind-the-canonical-community-team/) and feel free to ask your questions in the comments.

Give Nicholas a warm welcome, folks! 🙂

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