I'm Tulip! I've been working a lot on Bluefin and Universal Blue since about the start of both projects, with issues and ideas all around. I truly believe that the "Linux desktop" (whatever that is :p) can, and will be better from mine and all the contributors efforts.

I personally contribute to most of what goes into Bluefin, be it upstream, or on the Universal Blue org, maintaining the image itself, improving on how we build them and what we include into them, I work on their security aspects (supply chain attack vectors, licensing information, general security practices), support for most of the things we include, like maintaining flatpak applications (like the Virt Manager QEMU extension, Input Leap flatpak and many others), upstreaming fixes for issues re run into (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/35132, and some distro packaging) and I've lead the development of Bluefin LTS and Bluefin GDX + ARM efforts for those and a few things around the Universal Blue organization (ofc theres much more but I cant just write it all here 😉).

TDLR: I'll be using these funds for:

• Hardware costs
• Sponsoring people that really help Bluefin become a thing

You can also sponsor me on these places:

Thank you so much for your support!

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