About

I am a Learning Designer/Curriculum Developer/Educational Technology Consultant. (I teach people how to teach things.) My hometown is Baytown, Texas and I currently live in Galveston, Texas. I travel extensively and have also lived in Marina Del Rey, Manhattan Beach, Redondo Beach and Los Angeles, California, as well as Austin, Texas and Wellington, New Zealand.

I've been following the Ubuntu project for over a year. I was drawn into the project by the potential to use Ubuntu in education and learning environments. For the past decade I've been involved in creating innovative learning solutions for everyone from preschoolers to astronauts. You can view my resume for lots of wordy details at http://www.belindalopez.com/cv.html

I am known as "Dinda" by my Grandmother. When I was a wee child I could not pronounce my own name so I deemed myself dinda and the nickname remains.

Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/people/dinda

IRC(freenode): dinda

Email: dinda [at] mac [dot] com

Involvement

Official

• Attended UbuntuDeveloperSummitParis

• Attended UbuntuDeveloperSummitMountainView

• Ubuntu Women's Project - initiated IRC Meetup day and now we have regular meetings and several projects underway. The group has become much more active and the CC has granted our request to have more website and Launchpad Admins
• Marketing Team - Occasional contributor to mailing list

• LoCoTeams - helped round up folks for the Houston, Texas area Loco meeting, making plans to help merge all Texas Teams and scheduling more regular meetings

• Participated in the pilot for Ubuntu Systems Admin course in Geneva - it was cold!
• Created wiki pages on HCI Resouces
• Began exploring creation of an HCI Team, working with Ubun2design and Artwork/Desktop Teams
• More to come including working with Ubuntu Education and Training projects
• Traveled to the Ubucon in NYC on 16 Feb 2007.
• Developed and submitted two proposals for the Ubuntu Live conference
• Was invited to speak at the Seville Ubucon on the Ubuntu Women's Project

Non-Official

Spent the past year teaching myself everything I can learn about F/OSS, Ubuntu and ways to be involved in the community. I am very interested in using Ubuntu in educational settings and putting together presentations for decision makers. Made contact with several educators through the Texas Computer Educators Association who have just started a F/OSS Sig. I have been sending them regular Ubuntu reports.

The Future

I'm in the process of transitioning myself from my current consulting role to a "F/OSS" educational consultant. I'm hoping to start promoting Ubuntu in several local school districts.

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