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The Horsemen Assemble

by | Fri 7 Sep 2007

I am pleased to announce that [Daniel Holbach](https://daniel.holba.ch/blog/), a long time leader in the [MOTU project](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU) and friend of developers everywhere, has moved to my community team inside Canonical. Daniel will now be working as *Ubuntu Community Developer Liaison*. I am extremely excited to be working with him.

So what will Daniel be getting his claws into? A key focus will be MOTU. Daniel will be spending a lot of time refining, improving and growing MOTU, and getting the world excited about it. MOTU folks, you have been wanting more commitment from Canonical with MOTU, its here, primed and ready to kick arse. Daniel will also be working on improving our technical development processes, making it easier for people to get involved, getting developers excited about Ubuntu and working with the developer community to resolve and straighten out problems and any conflict.

We have raised our game, lets get to work. 🙂

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