An empowering and awesome Journey with disability in the Ubuntu community

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Born with 75 percent cerebral palsy and coding with single-hand coding capability, a 15-year Ubuntu contributor traces concrete milestones: Ubuntu membership in 2007, repository access in 2010, service on the app review board and local council, and hands-on work with dpkg workflows like quilt and pbuilder. Runs about 60 commits while porting an app, helps pivot app reviews toward snaps after an Ubuntu App Showdown of ~35 entries, mentors GSoC 2013 voice-translation work now in Google Translate, wins national and UN awards, now an entrepreneur in Budapest.

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2. 3:00Ubuntu community and inclusion
3. 7:07Community processes and inclusion
4. 15:21Building inclusive teams

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