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Assuming the Planet configuration change was correct, this should be my first post aggregated on Planet GNOME.

Hello!

I’m Jo.

I used to work on Free Software at Collabora, until I sold out, and now I work on Free Software at Microsoft. Specifically, I divide my time between administration of various Xamarin engineering services (primarily the public Jenkins server and its build agents); develop and manage the release of the Mono framework on Windows/Linux and MonoDevelop IDE on Linux; and occasionally work on internal proprietary projects which definitely don’t include Visual Studio Enterprise for Linux. I’m based in the Microsoft office in Cambridge, Mass, along with the Xamarin Release Engineering team, and most of the Xamarin engineering team.

Whilst it hasn’t had the highest profile in the GNOME community for a while, Mono is still out there, in its current niches – in 2018 that would primarily be on smartphones in a wider context, and for games (either via Unity3D or MonoGame/FNA) on the Linux desktop. But hey, it’s still there for desktop apps on Linux if you want it to be! I still use Smuxi as my IRC client. Totally still a thing. And there’s the MonoDevelop IDE, which nowadays I’m trying to release on Linux via Flatpak.

So, um, hi. You’ll see blog posts from me occasionally about Linux software releasing from an ISV perspective, packaging, etc. It’ll be fun for all concerned.