Hi there my name is Christian Langenbacher (github @clangenb). I hereby request to join th Polkadot Technical Fellowship. Polkadot Account: 16YCL3UVpVWQLGW3p3Zx4k5WAEp9W1DwdDnxAbyAaPxVxnp3 Kusama Account: E57Aa2P9uWG3Req6XsDBMaPYuJNtuzaErwfAv3a5sdsmBGb I have been a major contributor to codebases revolving around substrate, i.e., Integritee, Encointer, substrate-api-client since 2018. For Integritee and Encointer, I am also the software lead, and very recently, in January 24, I joined Ajuna es Senior Blockchain Dev. The contributions so far were mostly in the following repos: Integritee: https://github.com/integritee-network/pallets

History There was a bit of a hectic time with the release of the app lately. This was due to an issue discovered, when we tried to bootstrap the Kigali community in Africa. At the Kigali bootstraping gathering, all the attestations were rejected. Research showed that somehow the negative sign of the lattitude and longitude values disappeared on the way to the blockchain. This is something we thought to have fixed a long time ago encointer-js/#65. It is still unclear why this occurred. Instead of hunting down such a low-level bug under time pressure, we decided it is better to simply switch to the ClaimV2, where we send a new extrinsic to the blockchain with a simpler data structure, see the PR encointer-pallets/#231. This step was planned for soon anyhow. What happened then until the Next Cycle So we had 10 days of time until the next bootstrapping ceremony, where we thought that it is more than enough. The new extrinsic was incorporated in the app, and the next release was on the way. The apple release was extraordinarily fast and so v1.8.9 was in the stores, but the usually frictionless google publication was stuck.