AlanBell
I am one of the directors of The Open Learning Centre, a Canonical partner and software solution consultancy business.
I assisted with Software Freedom Day 2008 and 2009 at the Bracknell event.
I often provide support in the #ubuntu-uk irc channel.
In association with Elonex and Carphone Warehouse and Canonical we helped get Ubuntu based netbooks in stores all over the UK in an insanely short timescale when their original operating system did not work.
As part of the webbook project I ran a blog supporting all the customers of the Ubuntu webbook http://webbookblog.com
I have worked with Open Forum Europe to present Free software including Ubuntu to teachers and other educationalists at the BETT educational tradeshow in 2008 and 2009.
We were interviewed by the Ubuntu UK podcast and I have submitted a recorded tip to the podcast too.
I have submitted a number of bugs in launchpad, and made an effort to fix them. In particular for an issue with OpenERP I provided a patch from an upstream changeset that allows it to work with libxml2 rather than python-xml.
I have been studying packaging and whilst I have some way to go it is a subject I would like to continue with, becoming a MOTU one day.