AlexLauni
I am 21 (1987.11.28) years old and a student at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA USA. I am a double major Mathematics and Computer Science. I enjoy collecting vinyl, and am an avid cyclist and member of Philly's bike community. You can almost always find me at Philly Critical Mass (http://www.philamass.org). Your city probably has one too, look it up. If not, start one! I like to surf, bike, skateboard, play music, and compute. I play guitar, trombone, and cello. I play guitar in a band, [http://www.myspace.com/whatisamind f(x)] (E-mail me to book us! We'll play anywhere!). I am a member of the Philadelphia Linux Users Group.
Contact
E-Mail: alex.launi@gmail.com
Jabber: alex.launi@gmail.com
IRC (freenode/GIMPNet): lamalex
Website: http://www.lamalex.net/
Launchpad: http://www.launchpad.net/~alexlauni
Facebook: http://temple.facebook.com/profile.php?id=665890102
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/lamalex_
Ubuntu
I started using Ubuntu in October of '06 shortly after edgy was released. I started going to the Philly Linux User Group (http://www.phillylinux.org) and began to get more involved. I frequented the forums giving support to people who needed it. I joined the Ubuntu Pennsylvania LoCo Team and became active in that. Free software is something I'm very passionate about and I love spreading Ubuntu and free software to people all over the world.
Contributions to the Ubuntu Community
General Ubuntu Ecosystem
- Bug reporter
- Forum support
- Early release adopter
- Will be attending UDS Barcelona (thank you Canonical :D)
Ubuntu Pennsylvania LoCo Team
- Website admin
- Manage Calendar
- Launchpad admin
- Mailing list admin
- Helped organize first PA team install fest
- Helped with many other projects in the US-PA domain
Upstream
- GNOME Do core developer
- GNOME Do plugin coordinator
- Tasque Contributer
- Banshee Contributer
Future
I plan to continue to be involved in Ubuntu and F/OSS. I have recently applied for membership to the GNOME foundation, and have attended GDS. I feel that Ubuntu is the distro best poised to revolutionise the desktop experience. As an upstream developer, I have made fixes to GNOME Do to make it work better with Ubuntu technology, such as the new notification system in Jaunty. I will be attending UDS later this spring in hopes of talking to other developers and Ubuntuers to open their applications up over d-bus so that we can provide an innovative, and highly integrated desktop experience. In the Ubuntu community I will continue to advocate F/OSS and specifically Ubuntu. I have given out many Ubuntu CDs to classmates, and supported them through their transition. I plan to continue this and help keep fresh minds coming into F/OSS and Ubuntu.