The Ubuntu Budgie Family

Meet Our Team
of Volunteers

A single, passionate team from all around the world who contribute to every aspect of the project.

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David "fossfreedom" Mohammed

Project Lead / Founder

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Mauro Gaspari

Community Manager

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Udara Madubhashana

Designer & Coordinator

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Nikola "GrindamN" Stojić

Web Manager

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Dustin "bashfulrobot" Krysak

DevOps/Packaging

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Jacob Vlijm

Senior Budgie Experience Developer

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Sam Lane

RaspBerry Pi Guru/Packaging

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Uday Narayan Mukherjee

JS Developer/Gaming

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Nate "Haplo" Thompson

DevOps

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Messias Junior

Software Engineer

Alumni

Past contributors
NIYAS C — Developer
Rohan "HEXcube" Villoth — Designer and Developer
JOSHUA "FOGGALONG" FOGG — Developer
VINCENZO BOVINO — Brand and PR Manager
EFKAN ISAZADE — Project Manager
Serdar — Budgie Applet Developer
Lipe Forman — Project Manager and Representative of Brazilian community · In memoriam

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The Ubuntu Budgie project is always welcoming new contributors — from coding and bug triage to documentation and community support.

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