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| * '''Status :''' ''Ubuntero''. * '''Project :''' Xubuntu Developer |
* '''Status :''' ''Ubuntu Core Developer''; and ''Canonical Release Engineer'' * '''Project :''' Xubuntu Developer; and Canonical OEM Custom Engineering Solutions Group |
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| * '''O/S :''' Ubuntu w/Xfce4 (''Xubuntu'') * '''E-mail :''' cody.somerville@gmail.com * '''Launchpad :''' https://launchpad.net/people/cody-somerville * '''IRC :''' ''somerville32'' @ irc.freenode.net |
* '''O/S :''' Xubuntu * '''E-mail :''' cody-somerville@ubuntu.com/cody.somerville@canonical.com * '''Launchpad :''' https://launchpad.net/~cody-somerville * '''IRC :''' ''cody-somerville'' @ irc.freenode.net |
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| I've been using Ubuntu for some time now (not quite sure how long, I'd have to go digging for that information) and I've really come to love and enjoy using Linux on the desktop and server. Even though I considered myself a very tech-savvy person before joining the linux community, I've found Ubuntu to be exceptionally easy to use and recommend it to all my friends and family. | I've been using Ubuntu for some time now (not quite sure how long, I'd have to go digging for that information) and I've really come to love and enjoy using Linux on the desktop and server. Even though I considered myself a very tech-savvy person before joining the Linux community, I've found Ubuntu to be exceptionally easy to use and recommend it to all my friends and family. |
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| I love Ubuntu so much that I've decided that I want to give back to the Ubuntu community! I'm a frequent idler of #xubuntu and #xubuntu-devel (I'm an op here) and like to visit #ubuntu-ca, #ubuntu-marketing, and #ubuntu-motu regularly. I also hope to lend some of my programming skills to help improve the Xubuntu distribution and Ubuntu as a whole. Even though I still consider myself a ''newbie'' compared to the other amazingly talented individuals in our community, I think my dedication, enthusiasm, willingness to learn, and my ever developing technical aptitude and skills could become an asset to the Ubuntu project. | I love Ubuntu so much that I've decided that I want to give back to the Ubuntu community! I'm a frequent idler of #xubuntu, #xubuntu-devel, #ubuntu-ca, #ubuntu-marketing, #launchpad, #xubuntu-offtopic, #ubuntu-marketing, #ubuntu-doc, #ubuntu-mobile, #ubuntu-testing, #ubuntu-desktop, #ubuntu-motu and a number of other channels regularly. I also hope to lend some of my programming skills to help improve the Xubuntu distribution and Ubuntu as a whole. Even though I still consider myself a ''newbie'' compared to the other amazingly talented individuals in our community, I think my dedication, enthusiasm, willingness to learn, and my ever developing technical aptitude and skills could become an asset to the Ubuntu project. In Winter 2008, I was elected by the Xubuntu community as the Xubuntu Project Leader and later approved as a Ubuntu Developer by the MOTU Council. Early of August 2008, I was hired by Canonical as the OEM Services Custom Engineering Group's release engineer. On October 13th, 2009, I became a Ubuntu core developer. |
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| I can program in Java, Pike, JavaScript, Bash Script, and LPC comfortably. I'm interested in learning Python (''almost done''), C, and C++ soon as well as improving on the aforementioned languages. Love to ramble about CS/tech topics and don't mind lots of questions? Then I've got an ear to listen with. :] | I can program in Java, Pike, Python, JavaScript (getting rusty), C/C++, PHP, Bash Script, Objective-C, and LPC comfortably and I'm always looking to learn more. |
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| I also consider myself to be proficient in written and spoken English but I can be a horrible speller at times. <g> | Love to ramble about CS/tech topics and don't mind lots of questions? Then I've got an ear to listen with. :] I also consider myself to be proficient in written and spoken English but I can be a horrible speller at times.<g> |
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| Other distros that I have experience with include RedHat 9, Debian, DSL (my first linux distro), Slackware, Fedora Core, and a few other small utility distros. | Other distros that I have experience with include RedHat 9, Debian, DSL (my first linux distro), Slackware, Fedora Core, RHEL 3, and a few other small utility distros. |
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| Since I've just started to get involved recently, this list will be rather short. | === Team Membership === |
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| * Member of Ubuntu Canada Team * Owner of Xubuntu Users team * Member of Ubuntu Marketing Team * Member of Kubuntu Users team * Member of Ubuntu Bug Squad * Member of Xubuntu Team * Member of Ubuntu English (Canada) Translation Team * Contributor to English (Ca) [https://translations.launchpad.net/people/cody-somerville/+translations Translations]. |
You can view the teams that I'm a member of at https://launchpad.net/~cody-somerville/+participation === Translation/Localization === * Member of English (Ca) Translation Team ([[https://translations.launchpad.net/people/cody-somerville/+translations|Translations]]). === Support & Bug Triage === |
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| * Regular contributor to [https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-devel/ xubuntu-devel] mailing list. * Very frequent contributor to Xubuntu Wiki pages ([:Xubuntu/]*) * Regular [https://launchpad.net/people/cody-somerville/+karma bug triaging] on launchpad and [https://launchpad.net/people/cody-somerville/+reportedbugs bug reporting]. * Admin & Developer of [http://Xubuntu.org Xubuntu.org] * Contributor to Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter (starting issue 23) * Contributor to [https://features.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/xubuntu-welcome-center xubuntu-welcome-centre] project * Creator (and Op) of #xubuntu-devel on irc.freenode.net * Presenter for Xubuntu session in [:OpenUbuntuWeek:Open Ubuntu Week event]. |
* Regular [[https://launchpad.net/people/cody-somerville/+karma|bug triaging]] on launchpad and [[https://launchpad.net/people/cody-somerville/+reportedbugs|bug reporting]]. |
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| == Plans & Goals == | === Documentation === |
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| I hope to continue to improve Xubuntu and Ubuntu as a whole by developing custom applications, patching and packaging, giving support on irc support channels, writing wiki pages and documentation, and so much more. | * Very frequent contributor to Xubuntu Wiki pages ([[Xubuntu/]]*) * Contributor to Xubuntu Desktop Guide * Member of the Ubuntu Documentation Project Core Commiter Team |
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| Some things I'd like to accomplish in the future include: | === Community, Advocacy, & Marketing === |
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| * Making day-to-day desktop operations easy and fully functional in comparison to other popular operating systems (*coughs*Windows*coughs*) and then some. * Developing the Xubuntu community. * Contributing upstream to Xfce4 & Thunar. * Improving the Xubuntu desktop experience through researching common custom or helpful modification to default settings. * Continuing maintenance and development of Xubuntu wiki pages and website. * Developing custom solutions and contributing to upstream applications to help make the Xubuntu (and Ubuntu) distribution ''well rounded''. * And so much much more... |
* (Previous) Chief Editor of UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter * Local advocacy at school and in the community (Public speaking, posters, word of mouth, etc.) * Presenter for Xubuntu session in [[UbuntuOpenWeek|Ubuntu Open Week]] event. * #xubuntu and #xubuntu-* IRC contact and operator === Code, Packaging, & Development === * Xubuntu project leader * Member of the Ubuntu developer team * Member of the Xubuntu developer team * Member of the Debian Python Packaging Team * Member of the Ubuntu Universe SRU Approval Team * Admin & Developer of [[http://Xubuntu.org|Xubuntu.org]] ---- '''Note''': ''A lot of people have borrowed/used (some with explicit permissions, others none at all) my homepage "template" -- Feel free to do so. :)'' |
Name : Cody A.W. Somerville
Status : Ubuntu Core Developer; and Canonical Release Engineer
Project : Xubuntu Developer; and Canonical OEM Custom Engineering Solutions Group
Location : Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
O/S : Xubuntu
E-mail : cody-somerville@ubuntu.com/cody.somerville@canonical.com
Launchpad : https://launchpad.net/~cody-somerville
IRC : cody-somerville @ irc.freenode.net
About me
I've been using Ubuntu for some time now (not quite sure how long, I'd have to go digging for that information) and I've really come to love and enjoy using Linux on the desktop and server. Even though I considered myself a very tech-savvy person before joining the Linux community, I've found Ubuntu to be exceptionally easy to use and recommend it to all my friends and family.
I love Ubuntu so much that I've decided that I want to give back to the Ubuntu community! I'm a frequent idler of #xubuntu, #xubuntu-devel, #ubuntu-ca, #ubuntu-marketing, #launchpad, #xubuntu-offtopic, #ubuntu-marketing, #ubuntu-doc, #ubuntu-mobile, #ubuntu-testing, #ubuntu-desktop, #ubuntu-motu and a number of other channels regularly. I also hope to lend some of my programming skills to help improve the Xubuntu distribution and Ubuntu as a whole. Even though I still consider myself a newbie compared to the other amazingly talented individuals in our community, I think my dedication, enthusiasm, willingness to learn, and my ever developing technical aptitude and skills could become an asset to the Ubuntu project.
In Winter 2008, I was elected by the Xubuntu community as the Xubuntu Project Leader and later approved as a Ubuntu Developer by the MOTU Council.
Early of August 2008, I was hired by Canonical as the OEM Services Custom Engineering Group's release engineer.
On October 13th, 2009, I became a Ubuntu core developer.
Skill Set
I can program in Java, Pike, Python, JavaScript (getting rusty), C/C++, PHP, Bash Script, Objective-C, and LPC comfortably and I'm always looking to learn more.
Love to ramble about CS/tech topics and don't mind lots of questions? Then I've got an ear to listen with. :]
I also consider myself to be proficient in written and spoken English but I can be a horrible speller at times.<g>
Other notable skills include leadership, organization, and the ability to quickly learn new topics.
Other distros that I have experience with include RedHat 9, Debian, DSL (my first linux distro), Slackware, Fedora Core, RHEL 3, and a few other small utility distros.
My Contributions
Team Membership
You can view the teams that I'm a member of at https://launchpad.net/~cody-somerville/+participation
Translation/Localization
Member of English (Ca) Translation Team (Translations).
Support & Bug Triage
- Tech support on #xubuntu on irc.freenode.net
Regular bug triaging on launchpad and bug reporting.
Documentation
Very frequent contributor to Xubuntu Wiki pages (Xubuntu/*)
- Contributor to Xubuntu Desktop Guide
- Member of the Ubuntu Documentation Project Core Commiter Team
Community, Advocacy, & Marketing
(Previous) Chief Editor of UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter
- Local advocacy at school and in the community (Public speaking, posters, word of mouth, etc.)
Presenter for Xubuntu session in Ubuntu Open Week event.
- #xubuntu and #xubuntu-* IRC contact and operator
Code, Packaging, & Development
- Xubuntu project leader
- Member of the Ubuntu developer team
- Member of the Xubuntu developer team
- Member of the Debian Python Packaging Team
- Member of the Ubuntu Universe SRU Approval Team
Admin & Developer of Xubuntu.org
Note: A lot of people have borrowed/used (some with explicit permissions, others none at all) my homepage "template" -- Feel free to do so. :)
CodySomerville (last edited 2013-01-30 01:37:29 by CPE204e7f143661-CM78cd8ec1a8dd)