CasparClemensMierau

Caspar Clemens Mierau (damokles/ccm)

... is living in Berlin (Germany), just finished his study of media culture at Bauhaus-university (Weimar) and works as project manager and author. While dealing with Linux for about ten years, Ubuntu provided the last step to a complete switch to a free operating system on his personal machine. Though having a great interest in business-proof solutions, there is a focus on end user convenience and (especially local and native speaking) community work.

Ubuntu related work (being done so far)

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(very) active member of user group Ubuntu Berlin
founder and administrator of German speaking user group irc channel #ubuntu-berlin on freenode
moderator of user group mailing list: https://eshu.ubuntu-eu.org/mailman/listinfo/berlin
member of launchpad bug squad team, participation on hug days
user support on answer tracker and German Ubuntu forum
official member of "Ubuntu Deutschland e.V."
provided "LAG Medienarbeit", German union for media pedagogic work with youngsters, with Ubuntu installations for their laptops
spreaded dozens of Ubuntu cds to friends and colleagues
support for poster printing for ubuntu Deutschland e.V.
major role in organization of Ubuntu Gutsy release party in Berlin for about 80 to 100 people (press relations, organisation, contracts)
major role in organization of Ubuntu Hardy release party in Berlin for about 200 to 300 people (press relations, organisation, contracts)
major role in organization of Ubuntu BBQ for Linuxtag 2008 (partly sponsored by Canonical)

Current work

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preparation of a "federal" cowork of "UbuntuBerlin" user group and ubuntu Deutschland e.V. loco
preparation of ubuntu network gaming event (lan party with Ubuntu shipped networked games)
discussion with local advertiser about series about ubuntu
setting up local storage for Ubuntu marketing materials for Berlin