CristianBarahona

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About Me

I'm Ubuntu user since 2005. and I have been participating in the Chilean Ubuntu Team since 2008. I'm part of the Ubuntu-cl Loco council and now the new LocoContact of this great community. I'm "Ingeniero en Informatica" (software engineer?). I have my own company (not so big). We develop software for callcenters with Asterisk and Python and ofcourse, Ubuntu server. ah! some time ago I studied trapeze and clown in a circus school

My contributions to Ubuntu

Roles in the local community

I'm active member of Ubuntu Chile LoCo team, participating in the mails list, IRC, stand in events and different roles inside the comunity, my actual roles are:

  • I'm one of the 5 members of the Ubuntu-cl LoCo council.

  • LocoContact of this community.

  • One of the Ubuntu-cl's Planet administrators.

  • I administrate and maintain the Ubuntu-cl website with my twin brother AlvaroBarahona, we apply the security updates and install the plugins needed. Actually the site is in my personal host.

Projects and Activities wich I've involved

  • FUCH: It is a small application that allows ubuntuforum's users obtain information from their computers to help them in a better way with their problems. PatricioGonzalez and I created this project for our local community, now VictorVargas took this project to internationalize it and improve it, in order to may useful to the whole Ubuntu community. I'll work with Victor for this.

  • I participated making triaging and the 5 a day some time ago, now I have taken other responsibilities within the community and I have made it difficult to continue with this, I hope work in this soon again.

  • Padrinos: This idea came as a way to welcome the new members of our local community, sponsoring and helping them to channel their aid in a better way.

Events

Event

Role

Encuentro Linux 2008 (Concepcion)

stand

FLISOL (santiago)

stand, speaker

Jaunty Jackalope Party

Organizator

Junta Ubuntera (Santiago)

organization, speaker

JRSL (Santiago)

speaker

Encuentro Linux 2008 (Valparaiso)

stand, speaker

What's the next step?

Testimonials

  • Actualmente Cristian es un pilar fundamental dentro de la Comunidad Ubuntu-cl, su liderazgo ha sido determinante tanto en el desarrollo de los nuevos proyectos emprendidos por nuestra comunidad (Difusión, Fuch, Rediseño de la Web, etc); como en el fortalecimiento de sus instituciones bases (Concilio, Grupos de Trabajo, Equipos de participación en actividades presenciales, etc).

En cuanto a su persona, Cristian es un fiel representante de lo que significa vivir la filosofía ubuntu, cada una de sus responsabilidades las asume como un aporte a la comunidad, sin un afán de figuración, ni de ambición de ningún tipo, simplemente observa una necesidad y si cree que él es la persona idónea para hacerlo, toma la labor tratando de cumplirla de la mejor manera posible.

AlvaroOlivares Miembro del Concilio de Ubuntu-cl

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