FabiánRodríguez
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:
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):
Local organizations
[http://www.facil.qc.ca FACIL]
[http://www.w3qc.org W3QC]