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Name: David Klasinc (https://launchpad.net/~bigwhale)

Summary

• Development of Kazam Screencaster.

• Help with Gwibber development.
• Organizing local Ubuntu events and release parties.
• Ubuntu advocacy in our country.

Activities

• Organized many local release parties and other events. All events were sponsored by local companies and free drinks, food and snacks were provided for attendees. Turn-out on these events was from 20-80 people which is quite a success around here.

  • Karmic Koala

  • Maverick Meerkat

  • Natty Narwhal (Small, unofficial, ad-hoc, event, which resulted in a lot of people talking about Ubuntu)

  • Precise Pangolin

  • UGJ - Translation Marathon for 11.10

  • UGJ - Translation Marathon for 12.04

• As a former president of Lugos User Group of Slovenia I am still working with them trying to tie LUG and Ubuntu Slovenia Team for future projects.
• Some work on Gwibber microblogging client which included support for sending private messages on Twitter and Identi.ca and various other back-end enhances and fixes.
• Various talks and lectures about Ubuntu on more than a few events in Slovenia.

• A lot of Ubuntu advocacy on local forums most notably Slo-Tech and various IRC channels including #ubuntu-si on Freenode.

• Various Blog posts on Ubuntu on my personal blog www.twm-kd.com.

• Did some major work on Kazam Screencaster and got it to Ubuntu Universe.

• Picked up with Slovenian LoCo initiative where I helped a lot with meetings and general community work and coordination.

Future Plans

• Continue with active development on Gwibber and Kazam.

• Re-approval of Slovenian LoCo, I believe that our community efforts are decent enough and that we could be an officially approved LoCo team.

• Getting more involved with Ubuntu Desktop Team in general.

Testimonials

I've worked with David on Kazam Screencaster over the last 6 months or so. It's been a delight to have someone who is attentive, friendly and knowledgeable working on software for Ubuntu. I'd heartily recommend David for Ubuntu Membership -- AlanPope