About Me

Hello my name is Christopher Swift and I am a 17 year old student in Neath Port Talbot, Wales in the UK. I've been using Linux since Dapper back in '06 on a VM and later before 6.10 I had installed it to a separate partition on my hard disk, since then every computer in my house has been converted in part, or entirely to Ubuntu. Currently I am focusing all of my efforts on Ubuntu Cymru.

Things that I do for Ubuntu

LoCo Teams

Ubuntu Cymru

• I am a founding member of Ubuntu Cymru having helped start up the LoCo with other team members.

• I am the current acting Point of Contact for Ubuntu Cymru. (Until the election WelshTeam/Election has finished).

• Currently I am the acting chairman of IRC meetings in #ubuntu-cym.

Ubuntu UK

• I am an active contributor to the IRC channel #ubuntu-uk on the Freenode network, helping users with their issues when I can as well as contributing to the community feel of the channel with the regulars.
• A regular at the Ubuntu-UK IRC meetings, I usually watch the meeting advance and interjecting when a thought or valid point has been raised that I can help contribute and/or add my own views to the current train of thought.

Bugjam 2009

• During this bugjam, I will be attending both days, 21^st & 22^nd February. I have prepared a pdf document ready for my session on bzr management and podcast transcription, namely the Ubuntu-UK podcast. Also my prepared document will be used to help teach bzr & podcast transcription to the bugjam group in Birmingham by an Ubuntu member MartinMeredith who leads the Ubuntu English-UK translation team. This will also help teach the participants about the usage of the Transcriber application and how to use Launchpad.

Development

• I am currently being mentored by jpds to build packages for the Ubuntu Universe repository.

• I have currently submitted several packages (with _many_ revisions) to revu.

• I am working on many [needs-packaging] bugs in launchpad.

Accepted packages into the Jaunty Universe repo.

• grdc - A remote desktop connection client for GTK & GNOME.

• grdc-gnome - A GNOME applet for the grdc client.

• partitionmanager - A KDE partition & disk manager.

Translations

• I am a member of the English (UK) translation team.
• I try to translate at least one project per day.
• I look over work that has been requested for reviews if and when I see one.
• I have also translated in Welsh for some projects in Ubuntu, I am listed as the 4th highest contributor in launchpad for Welsh translations.

Future work

In the future, I wish for Ubuntu Cymru to become a fully fledged official LoCo team. I have been working very hard over the past few months to make it so. I really wish to help bring more users to Ubuntu too, in the past 3 weeks alone (of Sun. 10 May 2009) I have switched the computers of an estimated 20 users to Ubuntu, that is nearly 1 per day!

Ubuntu-cym

This is a new project that both myself and darius are undertaking to help spread Ubuntu in the deepest darkest depths of Wales. At the moment we are both project managers with myself currently acting the Point of Contact for the team. Much more information can be found at WelshTeam.

Testimonials

Franki^

"Chris is a great guy, he's really dedicated to the Ubuntu project, he's always on IRC spending his days helping out new users and translating programs. He's really put a lot of effort into getting the Welsh Ubuntu LoCo off the ground, and I think that he could end up as a much needed spokesperson for Free software in Wales." -franki (Ubuntu Cymru Member)

Brobostigon aka ptaylor

Chris works very hard, he helps many people up and down the UK, with their Ubuntu issues and problems. And of course recently setup a Welsh Ubuntu Loco. Which i can imagine is alot of work, to get to where it is now. However Chris is a great chap, and knows his stuff and seems to have an engineers mind. Philip Taylor, helper at ubuntu-uk,

Krzysztof Wilczynski

Despite relatively young age Chris is a very knowledgeable person who is passionate and enthusiastic about the technology. His contribution to the Ubuntu Linux project simply speaks for itself - active package maintainer; founder of the Ubuntu Local Team in Wales; fearless bug hunter who is always eager to help other users. But above all, Chris is a great colleague and invaluable member of the project. - Krzysztof Wilczynski, System Engieering Specialist, Research In Motion Limited