AlkisGeorgopoulos
About Me
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alkisg on irc.freenode.net |
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<alkisg AT SPAMFREE gmail DOT com> |
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Ubuntu Member: |
2006-05-23 |
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http://alkisg.mysch.gr (in Greek) |
I am a computer engineer, MSc, PhD candidate, appointed since 2000 as a secondary school teacher in Ioannina, Greece. I've been developing open source software for 2 decades, although I've only been involved with Linux for the last 5 years. Since 2009 I'm also working in a Greek school tech support team that helps migrating schools to Ubuntu/LTSP (about 300 schools so far), and that played a role in shipping 120.000 laptops to students preinstalled with Edubuntu.
Contributions
I've been an Edubuntu Council member since 2009-12-21, and an upstream LTSP developer since 2009-12-03.
I'm one of the main Epoptes developers, the classroom management tool shipped with Edubuntu since Precise.
I've opened sourced all of my educational software and activities packages.
I've set up and been maintaining a forum where Greek IT teachers exchange concerns and ideas, with more than 5 million page hits in the last 9 years.
I'm the lead developer of a school lab administration tool that helps teachers set up and maintain Ubuntu/LTSP based computer labs. I'll try to get it ready for inclusion to the Debian/Ubuntu archives in the future, like we did with Epoptes.
I'm the main author of 3 Ubuntu/LTSP installation manuals that specifically target Greek schools.
I've converted about 5 Gb of Windows-based Greek education software so that they run under Linux, packaged them in .debs and put them in repositories so that now installing all the necessary packages for e.g. a high school is as simple as apt-get install gymnasio.
I hang around in #ltsp, #edubuntu and #ubuntu-gr IRC channels, helping as much as I can, e.g.:
$ grep alkisg .purple/logs/irc/alkisg@irc.freenode.net/#ltsp.chat/* | wc -l
94647
I've been submitting bug reports, uploading some patches, and generally helping out with bug squashing. My launchpad page has more details on those.
I've been writing some Ubuntu community wiki pages, mainly under UbuntuLTSP.
I'm the owner of the Linux Greek teachers launchpad team, an administrator of the Ubuntu Greek Translators team, and a member of the Gnome Greek Translation team.
Future plans
I'll be using open source applications in my classrooms until my retirement in 20+ years, so I plan on constantly trying to make them better and easier to use.