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== Plans & vision for Ubuntu ==
I see Ubuntu becoming an essential tool to make Gnu/Linux more accessible to everyone, starting with my parents :) I feel it's a community that is open enough to let anyone participate to the extent of their abilities and availability.

As part of my professional but also personal activities, I plan on focusing on the following:
 * Keeping the Ubuntu community open and friendly, following the code of conduct
 * Becoming a local liaison for local support & advocacy in Quebec province, but also in the rest of Canada and the Colombian community (I originally grew up there)
 * Contributing and teaching other how to contribute through in tasks that will make the MOTU's work easier
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Here's some of my contributions to the Ubuntu Community. Here's some of my current and past contributions to the Ubuntu Community.
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== People ==
Several members I've met at UBZ and while joining the Canadian Loco and Marketing teams may be able to provide more information on me: CoreyBurger, DanielRobitaille, SivanGreen
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I am a member of and/or helped founding the following organizations:
 * [http://www.apcq.qc.ca APCQ] - Asociación de Profesionales Colombianos en Quebec
 * [http://www.isoc.qc.ca ISOC QC] - Internet Society, Quebec chapter
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 * [http://www.ccmm.qc.ca Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal]

About me

I am based off Montreal, QC, Canada.

I am mostly interested in advocacy/marketing, local support & training and new users introduction / migration to Gnu/Linux. I currently work full-time as an Open Source software solutions consultant, focusing on security and migration issues.

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Plans & vision for Ubuntu

I see Ubuntu becoming an essential tool to make Gnu/Linux more accessible to everyone, starting with my parents Smile :) I feel it's a community that is open enough to let anyone participate to the extent of their abilities and availability.

As part of my professional but also personal activities, I plan on focusing on the following:

  • Keeping the Ubuntu community open and friendly, following the code of conduct

  • Becoming a local liaison for local support & advocacy in Quebec province, but also in the rest of Canada and the Colombian community (I originally grew up there)

  • Contributing and teaching other how to contribute through in tasks that will make the MOTU's work easier

Contributions

Here's some of my current and past contributions to the Ubuntu Community.

Advocacy

  • Using and showing Ubuntu since 4.10 Smile :)

  • Using Ubuntu to demo Mozilla in local tradeshows
  • Donated several dozen CDs (both ship-it and self-produced) to carefully selected individuals and organizations (including recylced PCs being sent to Colombia)
  • Plan on presenting Ubuntu at local conferences, LUGs, tradeshows
  • Using Ubuntu at home and on the road full-time (2 PCs, laptop)
  • Installed Ubuntu (Hoary) to my 60 yr.-old parents in Colombia, 1 support call since Aug. 2005, often cited as use-case
  • Local liaison to several organizations

  • Joined the CanadianTeam (Oct. 2005)

  • Writing about Ubuntu in my [https://secure.fabianrodriguez.com/blog/archives/category/tech/linux/ubuntu/ blog] since Apr. 2005

Marketing

  • Contributed to ConferenceTopTips

  • Produced a spanish 1-pager to accompany CD-kits donated to spanish-speaking org/people
  • Actively marketing "Getting Started with Linux" courses, based on Ubuntu
  • Joined the Marketing Team (Oct. 2005)

Documentation and Development support

People

Several members I've met at UBZ and while joining the Canadian Loco and Marketing teams may be able to provide more information on me: CoreyBurger, DanielRobitaille, SivanGreen

Local organizations

I am a member of and/or helped founding the following organizations:

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