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

• Marketing Team - Occasional contributor to mailing list

• LoCoTeams - attended my first Houston, Texas area Loco meeting, making plans to help merge all Texas Teams and scheduled next Houston meeting for Jan. 23, 2007

• Ubuntu Women Project - mailing list contirbutor, initiated UbuntuWomenIRCMeetup for Jan. 11, 2007
• Will be attending pilot for Ubuntu Systems Admin course
• Created wiki pages on HCI Resouces
• Began exploring creation of an HCI Team
• More to come including working with Ubuntu Education and Training projects

Non-Official

Spent the past eight months 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.

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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