DylanMccall

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Dylan McCall

Email: MailTo(DylanMcCall@Gmail.com)

MSN: Same as Email. (Yes, I'm using MSN. I should be, and indeed am, ashamed.)

Jabber: dylanmccall@Jabber.org

Forums: Picklesworth / Mr. Picklesworth.

About Me

I have been working on the same central project for many years now, and luckily one of my tangential "side projects" led me to Ubuntu Linux. (Yay!). Something about it really hooked me in, and now I am excited to watch Ubuntu grow and to, some day, make contributions of my own. Ubuntu has shown me the power of the open software community, and I have made it my goal to become a part of it, at least to return the generosity which has been given to me.

Apologies in Advance

There are a few things I should apologize for:

  • My inability to operate a Wiki. Sorry to the people subscribed to NoUsplashTimeout; I ended up sending all 6 of you emails when I merely removed a space in my own name.

  • My lack of understanding of Linux and Linux software. I tend to make suggestions that really are a lot more complicated than I think. I promise, I am learning!
  • My occasionally inflammatory statements regarding the development of Ubuntu, Linux and Linux software. I feel I should really explain this one. Ever since I discovered Ubuntu, how perfectly designed and beautifully presented it is, I have had a strong passion for Linux and all things free. I hate to see things go wrong, and I am a very picky person. If I see something that I feel is not good for the project, I get rather... upset. Don't take it personally, though; take it as a complement. If I am so excited about someone's work that I hate it when things go the wrong way, it means I consider it so important that even the most trivial imperfection is a huge problem. On the other hand, I realize that sometimes I do not spend enough time trying to figure out what exactly has gone wrong, or if anything actually has gone wrong. I should try harder to understand every side of the proverbial fence.
  • My lack of contributions thus far. I've made a lot of suggestions, but so far I have not done much to help make them reality. As I look around, I am getting a much better understanding of how all of this fits together, so some day I will hopefully have something to give back to this very worthy community.

Things That I Have Done

I guess it wouldn't hurt to show you folks what I have accomplished and am particularly proud of. I've built a number of unimpressive pieces of software in the past that I hope to revise, and so I won't link to them or mention them...

Stuff that I actually am kind of pleased with:

  • A nuclear reactor simulator. Sadly, it is Windows software and only slightly works with Wine. It is quite interesting, though. [http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=61175 Here is its forum thread.]

  • The Charlotte Content Management System. It is still in early days, but I have applied its prototype to a working web site for a community organization called the [http://www.deltahumanesociety.org Delta Humane Society]. Charlotte was developed and tested with Ubuntu, by the way.


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