EricHammond

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Eric Hammond

Location: Los Angeles, California, USA

Email: <ehammond AT thinksome DOT com>

Contributions to Ubuntu

Since November 2007 I have been building, maintaining, documenting, promoting, and supporting public AMIs (images) for running Ubuntu on Amazon EC2 (elastic compute cloud). I have documented how each AMI is built and have published a build script which others can (and have) use to build their own custom Ubuntu AMIs.

These Ubuntu AMIs quickly became popular enough that I started a support group for folks using Ubuntu on EC2. Hundreds have joined the the community and quite a few folks have been joining in the support effort and in submitting ideas and even patches for the Ubuntu AMI build tool.

I provide support on the general Amazon EC2 forum and on irc.freenode.net #ec2 for both Ubuntu and non-Ubuntu questions. I find that answers to EC2 users' questions can often start with "If you switch to an Ubuntu AMI, you can do this simply with ..." And, it appears that many do try Ubuntu and love it.

I selected Ubuntu as the platform for building the technology of the most recent startups I've been involved with: Rent.com, ThisNext.com, CampusExplorer.com. I run dozens of personal and community service websites on Ubuntu including a popular URL shortener, notlong.com

I have been running Ubuntu on my personal desktops and servers since Breezy and used various other Linux distributions prior to that and Unix flavors prior to that.

Plans for the Future

I plan to continue all the work I am doing with the Ubuntu AMIs for EC2 and supporting the growing Ubuntu on EC2 community.

I would like to figure out how to bring this project a bit more into the main Ubuntu community. Please drop me a line if you can connect me to the right people in the Ubuntu community (or even Canonical). I plan to keep promoting and supporting Ubuntu on EC2 but expect both will benefit from a bit more official connection (and I can talk specifics).


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