James Westby is a great guy to work with. He almost never sleeps and is truly helpful. Based in Bristol, England, he is well-known in the Bazaar community and his work on distributed development.

Making collaboration in Ubuntu development easier and more natural is one of his ambitions. James started out by writing bzr-builddeb which makes the task of building maintaining Ubuntu packages in Bazaar trivial. Working in bazaar branches, pulling changes from Upstream, maintaining them with a clear version history is getting easier andeasier by the day.

James is also well-known in the MOTU community and always has an open ear for people looking for help and seeking advice. He organised and hosted a few MOTU School sessions already and is one of the top reviewers in the sponsoring queue. Nick Ellery says: "James has done more sponsoring than any other developer during the Jaunty release. He's an asset to the new developer community, and an excellent guy towork with!" and Andrew Starr-Bochicchio adds "his work on the sponsorship queue is Hall of Fame worthy".

He stays calm in heated discussions, can easily look at problems from a new angle and comes up with great ideas.

He loves all kinds of music, particularly Drum'n'Bass music and DJed at two "Ubuntu Allstar" parties. James also likes cooking, so go and check out his blog, he has a few recipes on there.

We can only say: Rock on James and give us more of the Distributed Development goodness!

The following people have sent their THANK YOU:

	Daniel Holbach		Jono Bacon
	Pedro Villavicencio		Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
	Milo Casagrande		Williams Orellana
	Markus Korn		Achim
	Soren Hansen		jgraeme
	Nathan Handler		Christophe Sauthier (huats)
	Siegfried Gevatter		Richard Johnson
	Mackenzie Morgan		Jorge O. Castro
	Alessio Treglia