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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.

• Launchpad profile: https://launchpad.net/people/magicfab

• Website, contact: http://www.fabianrodriguez.com

• On IRC: MagicFab

• On Jabber: jabber on secure.fabianrodriguez.com

Teams:

• MarketingTeam

• CanadianTeam

Contributions

I currently work full-time as an Open Source software solutions consultant, focusing on security and migration issues. Here's some of my contributions to the Ubuntu Community.

Advocacy

• Using and showing Ubuntu since 4.10

• 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

• Participated/participating to UbuntuLoveDay and UbuntuBelowZero

• Documented (how-to) configuration of [http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=27120 bluetooth], [http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=9454 wifi + WPA] on the forums

• Started the [https://wiki.ubuntu.com//HardwareSupportMachinesLaptopsAveratec Averatec] laptops information page (wiki)

• [https://launchpad.net/people/magicfab/+reportedbugs Bug reporting] (Launchpad)

• Bug reporting (bugzilla):

  • [http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3254 Visioneer OneTouch 5300 USB Scanner detected but not working], [http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7476 Partition resizing for FAT-32 produces an error at install time]

• Requests for enhancements (bugzilla):

  • [http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3299 Add search capability to the various support mailing lists]

• Bug reports editing, validation, voting (bugzilla):

  • [http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9971 #9971], [http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8954 #8954], [http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2524 #2524], [http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1242 #1242]

Local organizations

• [http://www.facil.qc.ca FACIL]

• [http://www.w3qc.org W3QC]