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Contact Information

Email: MailTo(funnylookinhat AT SPAMFREE gmail DOT com)

AIM: FunnyLookinHat

ICQ: 40145621

IRC: FunnyLookinHat @ irc.freenode.net

Website: http://www.funnylookinhat.com --- In development Ubuntu Blog: http://funnylookinhat.ubuntu-rocks.org --- Much more active

Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/people/funnylookinhat

Education

High School Degree from Adlai E. Stevenson High School: Lincolnshire, IL

Purdue University: Attended 3 Semesters (1 Engineering, 2 Computer Science)

Colorado Christian University: Currently Attending - Majoring Secondary Education (Math)

Computer Skills

Programming: C/C++ (Medium), PHP (Medium), Java (Medium), Perl (Low)

Networking: Expertise in Wide Area Network (WAN) Wireless Networking

Ubuntu Related

Things that I am doing and/or plan to do related to Ubuntu Linux.

Current Endeavors

Team Lead for Colorado Local Community Team.

• Planning release parties. - Our next is going to be the best yet!
• Organizing "Geek Fests" - Frequent get-togethers which build on our team's community.
• Acting as team spokesman to local groups.

Working on a new Library Outreach program.

• Currently on hold pending more team resources.

Becoming a Ubuntu member.

Testing enhanced desktop solutions (i.e. beryl, composite managers, etc.) and assisting users in setting these solutions up.

Creating a new program for the ColoradoTeam - Free Local Support

• This program will bring our community activism to a new level.
• We will provide three different tiers of support.
• The greatest single facet of this program right now is creating a clean interface for people to find the best support solution for them through our website.

Notable Ubuntu Contributions

Edit and maintain the ColoradoTeam wiki page.

Contribute and help maintain the new ColoradoTeam website.

• http://coloco.ubuntu-rocks.org

Worked to move the ColoradoTeam website and mailing lists over to official Canonical servers.

• This is in accordance with the standards agreed upon in the USTeams project.
• The final transition for our website to the Canonical servers is pending the support of PHP5 and SimpleXML.

Write tutorials and help users through ubuntuforums.org, including a front page digg.com article for Avant Window Navigator compiling.

• http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=351186

Developed several presentations related to Ubuntu.

• The main focus of these was for our Library Conversion project, which is temporarily on hold while our team refocuses its efforts.

Assist users in support in #ubuntu on irc.freenode.net

Actively Market/Advocate Ubuntu

• Act as ColoradoTeam spokesperson to other teams and groups.

• Interviewed for the "Castellini on Computers" radio show for the ColoradoTeam

  • Details: http://coloco.ubuntu-rocks.org/2007/06/23/coloco-radio-interview/

• Attended the Technology in Education conference with the ColoradoTeam to present Ubuntu to teachers, administrators, and school technology specialists.

  • A log of our progress and work for this conference can be found at https://wiki.edubuntu.org/TIEColorado

• Created a writeup to summarize our efforts in the Technology in Education session:

  • Details: http://coloco.ubuntu-rocks.org/2007/06/27/tie-conference-presentation/

• JimHutchinson worked closely with me to prepare the team for this event.

  • He also submitted a writeup concerning the booth we staffed for the event.

  • Details: http://coloco.ubuntu-rocks.org/2007/06/27/coloco-touts-ubuntu-at-tie-conference/

Future Goals

Find and implement new outreach programs for Ubuntu.

Continue to lead the ColoradoTeam as long as they will have me.

Find a development team for Ubuntu that I can actively assist in when I can give it my full attention.

Testimonials

• Please feel free to add your 2-cents concerning your experience with me through Ubuntu related projects!

• I first met David around March of '07 when I was looking for help from a local Linux user group to help me present open source and Linux at the Technology in Education Conference in Copper Mountain, CO. Out of all the LUGs I contacted, David was the only one to respond. We began a lengthy dialog that eventually led to the Colorado Loco team's awesome involvement in the conference. David went out of his way to help during all phases of planning and implementation (and even follow-up). Without his help the event would not have been nearly as successful. In addition to helping during the session, David also brought up equipment and set up a table outside the room to entice people to enter and share information with people who could not attend. Thanks to his efforts, our session was the best attended that day with a crowd that continued to grow (rather than shrink as many other did). In all respects, David has proven himself an excellent leader of the Colorado team and advocate for Ubuntu. -- JimHutchinson [June 27, 2007]

• JoeyStanford: David took over the Colorado LoCo from me at the beginning of the year and under his leadership is has almost doubled in size. He's run several team events, worked on the new website, helped organize Ubucon Boulder, is the main CD distribution point in Colorado, and participated in the TIE conference (as well as contributing several Edubuntu courses for it). He has excelled in his leadership and also the various contributions that he's made. I highly recommend him for membership.

• David has consistently put energy into the ColoradoTeam ever since he joined us last year. From re-distributing the team's large cache of CDs, to planning events, to helping folks with hardware, to keeping #ubuntu-colorado a lively place, David is there! NealMcBurnett [2007-06-30]

• Thumbs up from me. David is a long time contributor to the LoCoTeams project. -- MelissaDraper

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