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J AustinBardo

• Ubuntu is the best linux distro I have found. I have the community to be open and vibrant. The distro is going in directions I want Linux to go. Hopeful bug #1 can be solved with Ubuntu in the near future. [end shameless plug]

In the community...

• Computers have been apart of my life for decades. I had a TI-94a that I programmed with my uncle. Life on a PC as always started with Microsoft, but about 5 years ago I discovered Linux. I first tried Mandrake, and grew frustrated as they made certain packages difficult to get. Then I discovered Ubuntu around the Breezy release.

  I loved the simplicity and ease of use. More importantly, it had the packages I was looking for easily available. I started reading the Planet and the Fridge trying to keep up on the community. I then found the MeetingLogs on the wiki and started following them.

  When the MeetingLogs stopped being updated July 2006, I keeped checking them and after about a month, I decided to revive the dead MeetingLogs. I wrote MeetingSummarySpec about what the logs needed to improve based on what I learned in maintaining them.

  In early 2007, ChrisOattes came to me with part of my solution outlined in MeetingSummarySpec. I decided with his help to form the ScribesTeam. The team is slowly developing a good team to help augment and enhance the archiving of community meetings and events.

  My goal with Meetinglogs and now ScribesTeam has been to maintain and hopefully improve the transparency in the decision process at work in the community. I feel that a community that is not open and easily understood can be difficult to get involved with. Being open with the decision process is as important as being open with welcoming new individuals.

In my home...

• I have several computers networked with Ubuntu, although the Family computer has windows. I also have one running distro+1 to give my feedback and discover the direction Ubuntu and Linux is going. I am pretty much self-taught with computers. I dable with PHP and mysql to help maintain web-based interface to my MYSQL database containing details on my photography collection. I edited and refactored a php web-based database interface I found to work for my needs. I have a curiosity about programming, but find some of the concepts difficult to grasp. I have even read about few programming languages. I have the Linux environment powerful and easy to maintain. I am at home in the shell as well as the GUI. I can manage a small intranet site on a dedicated box in my home. I have put many PHP web apps from the internet on the site.

Scribes Team

• I am one of the admins for ScribesTeam. MeetingSummarySpec is a major focus of mine. I currently keeping MeetingLogs and the logs for CC, TB, Dev and Motu up to date. I am looking forward to the ScribesTeam improving the quality and number of MeetingLogs that are easily available.

  I developed a PHP script to help me scrape [http://people.ubuntu.com/~fabbione/irclogs/ logs] to get just the meeting. I often use it when I miss an IRC meeting. Anyone interested in this can let me know.

My Ideas for Ubuntu:

• PackageNamingStandards -- Lets do our best to keep capitalization, spelling, and overall naming of packages and their parts easy to see relations between them.

• GraphicalConfigurationSpec -- A modprobe gui similar to KDE's but for gnome would be nice to further tweak with a HAL based wizard to aid in chosing required drivers.

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