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== Links ==

==== Ubuntu (and FOSS) Related ====
[[https://www.launchpad.net/~bencrisford|Ben Crisford on Launchpad]]
[[http://www.freeyourpc.tk|Free Your PC Blog]]

==== Personal ====
[[http://www.bencrisford.co.nr|Ben Crisford's Homepage]]
[[http://bencrisfordonline.blogspot.com|Ben Crisford's Personal Blog]]

==== Other ====
[[http://www.youtube.com/uriel44444|Ben Crisford's Youtube Channel]]

About Me

About Me: Personal

My name's Ben Crisford. I am an ubuntu user, lover and strong supporter of all linux distributions and free softwares. I contribute where I can, and I am aware I am probably one of the youngest contributors. Currently my main contributions are with the bugsquad, and I have applied to join the bug control team, eventually I hope to be a MOTU (but thats a long way off), see "My Contributions" to read a full list of what I contribute and to what extent.

My launchpad page is here. I have a website (BenCrisford.co.nr), a personal blog (Ben Crisford Online), and a free software blog (Free Your PC).

Me and Ubuntu

Me and Ubuntu: My OSes

I currently run Ubuntu 9.04 jaunty jackalope desktop edition. Using gnome as my desktop environment, with dust theme (but sometimes swapping to KDE).

I occasionally boot vista, but very rarely. 99% of the time I am on Ubuntu.

Me and Ubuntu: My story so far with Ubuntu...

A rather long time ago now I picked up a copy of Ubuntu 6.10 and played about with it for a bit. After my ubuntu PC broke, I was a vista user for quite a long time. However, eventually I decided to remind myself of what ubuntu was like, and I didn't boot vista again (or at least very little).

I have started contributing where I can, and I love it. I just love the way I can help Ubuntu run as beautifally as it does, and I hope it will work like this for a very long time :).

My Contributions

Bug Management

Bug management was the first area of contributing I got involved with, and I love it.

First of all I joined and started contributing with the bugsquad. Nothing too heavy i'll admit, but I helped where I could. After that was a bit of a black hole in my contributions, and I was very busy for a while. But eventually, I became active again, and my contributions were better than ever.

I am now trying very hard to participate in the 5-a-day scheme, by triaging five (or more) bugs a day, and I have been quite successful so far.

I have applied to the 'Ubuntu Bug Control' team, but I am still waiting for a response to my application.

OpenWeek

I ran the session 'Gaming With Ubuntu' in 2009's Ubuntu Openweek.

I very much enjoyed the experience, and I had a really good time running it. I think it was quite successful, and I hope I helped alot of people use ubuntu for gaming, as gaming is a passion of mine.

Ubuntu Marketing

SpreadUbuntu

A while ago I created a poster for the spreadubuntu project which I am quite proud of. I was extremely honoured when someone asked to use the background of my poster for a Belgian LoCo team poster.

The poster is located here.

Ubuntu MOTU

I hope to eventually become a MOTU which I realise is a very long way off, but it is something to aim towards.

Contact

E-mail

  • ben [AT] freeyourpc [DOT] tk
  • webmaster [AT] bencrisford [DOT] exofire [DOT] net
  • bencrisford [AT] yahoo [DOT] co [DOT] uk
  • ben [AT] tango9 [DOT] tk

IM

  • MSN: tronex4(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk

  • AIM: bencrisford

  • Yahoo: tronex4

  • Skype: tronex2

IRC

You can find me on irc.freenode.net as bencrisford.

My Other Interests

Web Development

I love making websites! I can code HTML reasonably fluently, and I can just about muddle my way through XML from my experience with DocBook.

Coding

Although I am very much a beginner, and can't really do very much I love programming :D.

I can program very very basic Perl, and C. As well as basic C++, and intermediate DocBook documentation markup.

Graphics

I know my way around photoshop and GIMP, and inkscape to a certain extent. You can see my deviantART page here.

Gaming

I don't play as much as I used to, but I am an experienced gamer.

  • I play CoD4 as -|T9|-Wolf (I am an admin of T9 clan, their website can be found here.

  • I play CoD5 as wolf235

  • I play CSS as SuD|b3N
  • I play Cube as XaRaX
  • I play Halo as -|T9|-Wolf
  • and Halo 2 as -|T9|-Wolf

I am benc235 on the steam network.

Ben Crisford on Launchpad Free Your PC Blog

Personal

Ben Crisford's Homepage Ben Crisford's Personal Blog

Other

Ben Crisford's Youtube Channel

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