One of the Ubuntu community's longest serving, and most dedicated community developers, former ALSA maintainer for Ubuntu, Master Of The Universe(1),
and MOTU Council(2) member, has announced that he is stepping down from the MOTU council. Daniel T Chen(3) has announced that he is withdrawing from
Ubuntu community involvement.

I have had the great pleasure in working with Daniel for the last few years, firstly with sponsoring my uploads for the universe and main Ubuntu
repositories, and helping get the UbuntuStudio project started, even if only in a small way. I also had the wonderful privelage of meeting him in
person at the Boston Ubuntu Developer's summit, in October/November 2007.

On behalf of everybody in the Ubuntu community, I would publically like to say thank you Daniel, for the hard work you have put into making the
Ubuntu community, and the Ubuntu audio stack what it is. I know for a fact that my knowledge of Linux audio, and development in general has been
greatly increased by your wealth of knowledge, experience, and guidence in the time I've worked with you. I wish you all the best for the future, and
hope that you will drop by once in a while to say hello. You will always be welcome in the Ubuntu community.

Links
(1) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU
(2) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Council
(3) https://launchpad.net/~crimsun