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[http://www.launchpad.net/~hubuntu hubuntu @ launchpad]

[http://doc.ubuntu-es.org/Usuario:Hubuntu Hubuntu @ ubuntu-es] and my [http://doc.ubuntu-es.org/Especial:Contributions/Hubuntu contributions] there

[http://hubuntu.blogspot.com My weblog]

[http://doc.ubuntu-es.org/NSU/Edicion_Actual Enterate de lo que ha pasado en Ubuntu esta semana!]

[http://www.ubuntu-ec.org Visita el sitio de Ubuntu Ecuador LoCo Team]

[http://doc.ubuntu-es.org Visita el sitio de documentación en español de Ubuntu]

[http://doc.ubuntu-es.org/Usuario:Hubuntu Página en el wiki de documentación @ ubuntu-es]

[http://www.ubuntu.no Besøk Ubuntu Norge LoCo team sin side]

What's with the name?

H stands for huayra, which means wind in several aborigine languages in America (yes, the continent!). It stuck after choosing it for the gmail account I use for Ubuntu related activities.

I am 26 and love GNU/Linux. I am also a student at the University of Oslo. Although my BA is in Philosophy I have got a deep relationship with IT, and work as a Security ant IT/Telecom consultant for the SMB and enterprise markets.

I have used Ubuntu since April 2005. Tried [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnoppix Gnoppix] based on Warty and I was sold... I decided to start with Hoary as my main OS and I downloaded it the day it was released and have used it ever since (yes, got a computer that has "suffered" through a lot of update-manager tweaking ;). Before that I used GNU/Linux since 1997 and exclusively since 2000 going through the following distros (more than 2 days at a time ;): SuSe, Caldera, Mandrake, RedHat, CorelLinux, Debian, Fedora, DSL, PuppyLinux and Ubuntu (in chronological order). I like Gnome best, but test the different flavors from time to time.

Advocacy

Ubuntu-ec

• In the fall of 2005 I joined the marketing team and have since gotten involved in many [https://launchpad.net/~hubuntu/+participation teams and groups] within the Ubuntu community. My current and biggest contribution this far is the up & running [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EcuadorTeam/ Ubuntu Ecuador] [http://ubuntu.ec LoCo Team] for which I am the contact member. I just love to see the interest this has generated within the FLOSS community in Ecuador and how amazing it is to be able to participate in social and networking processes beyond the barrier of space (I live in Oslo, Norway),

• Another project I am involved with is the Spanish translation of the Ubuntu Weekly News (NSU), CUPIE (Ubuntu Classroom in Spanish), Spanish Ubuntu ISO and others.

• My goal is to lead the LoCo to be a model for viability within the Spanish Speaking community in terms of how cooperation within the community of users, Ubuntu support providers and the enterprise in Ecuador can be done while keeping our transparency and credibility as a Free Software advocacy group, which happen to take Ubuntu as their origo, but which is open and has to cooperate with the wider FLOSS community. I believe we should always move towards the Gobuntu direction for the whole project, and I want to show how that is posible, but that it takes time, patience and A LOT of work! I have used GNU/Linux for 10 years on my desktop... We have come a long way, but have a long way ahead of us.

• I have urged at least 10 individuals to advocate by distributing CDs and this activity has been a success for our LoCo having now [http://ubuntu.ec/cd 14 distribution points] in Ecuador (April 7th 2008). We do endorse commercially backed support locally but make it explicit that the Community efforts come ahead of commercial interest in any case the LoCo members are involved. While visiting the country in the summer of 2007 I gave away 15 CDs to many different people. I even gave a CD to a guy in the Galapagos Islands, and did take a movie with a penguin while wearing my Ubuntu t-shirt I will post it as soon as I manage to convert the film to a free format.

Ubuntu Norge

• Brought to Scandinavia the lovely "Powered by ubuntu" stickers by System76. Distributed most part of these (around 400 stickers) to people in Scandinavia (mostly [http://forum.ubuntu.no/index.php?topic=265.0 Norway], but also Finland, Sweden and Denmark) and around 50 in a visit to Ecuador. All in all distributed the stickers to over 100 people and 10 companies and institutions in at least 5 countries (including but not limited to): [http://www.trolltech.com Trolltech], [http://fast.no/ FAST], [http://www.active24.com Active24], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eniro Eniro], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesam Sesam] and [http://www.presidencia.gov.ec/ the Ecuadorian Presidential offices in a meeting]. Currently I am working with people in the US to get the sticker distribution going for Ecuador as well. 100 are on their way already, unfortunately no answer from System76 regarding a petition to get/buy stickers have been answered so the distribution in Scandinavia is [http://forum.ubuntu.no/index.php?topic=265.msg2834#msg2834 halted] (as of April 7th 2008).

• I have distributed myself over 90 CDs from ShipIt! (got all in all over 100) to different people, without counting the ones I have burned (PowerPC, PS3). I have given it to people at work, at uni, in the street and used them specially at InstallFests. I bought myself a Ubuntu bag from Canonical and I always go around with at least 4 CDs (x86 and 64-bits). So if you ever happen to be in Oslo in the middle of the week and you want a Ubuntu CD just send me an email and we can hook up for a CD exchange.

• Participates in the [http://forum.ubuntu.no/index.php?action=profile;u=556 forum] @ Ubuntu Norge

Ubuntu-es

• I have participated in the joint [https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-es-locos Spanish speaking LoCo project] to better organize our activities and move forward a goal for approval of all LoCos within a time frame (not set yet).

• Driver of the [http://doc.ubuntu-es.org/NSU NSU] and the more recent [https:://wiki.ubuntu.com/EcuadorTeam/MaterialPOP/Presentaciones Spanish Presentations] projects.

Ubuntuforums

• Have taken some time to work in the [http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=529952&highlight=Hubuntu ubuntuforums], but not as much as I would like to have taken

Launchpad

• Have worked in the [https://answers.launchpad.net/~hubuntu/ answer tracking system], [https://translations.launchpad.net/~hubuntu/ translations], [https://blueprints.launchpad.net/~hubuntu/ blueprints] and sended a couple of [https://bugs.launchpad.net/~hubuntu/ bugs].

• I have pushed for more integration between launchpad and the Ubuntu-es infrastructure. OpenID will hopefully simplify this issue.

Events

• besides InstallFests I have installed myself or participated actively (more than just giving the CD) in the installation of over 20 machines (desktops mostly, but also 3 servers) with ubuntu since June 2005.

• 6. February 2007 - Installfest participation representing Ubuntu Norge - Set up 5 machines (including a PowerPC Mac with JAVA??!!) and distributed CDs and stickers (Lovely sent from Canonical and System76 respectively, thanks!)

• 04. September 2007 - Installfest participation representing Ubuntu Norge - Installed Ubuntu in 10 machines and distributed stickers and CDs to everyone who got Ubuntu installed (over 50 stickers and 13 CDs distributed). See pics [http://folk.uio.no/rdgavila/images/ubuntu/hubuntu/DSC_2196.JPG here] and [http://folk.uio.no/rdgavila/images/ubuntu/hubuntu/DSC_2203.JPG here] and the poster [http://folk.uio.no/rdgavila/images/ubuntu/hubuntu/olug-plakat-2007-09-04-installasjonsfest-1.pdf here]. here the [http://folk.uio.no/rdgavila/images/ubuntu/hubuntu/olug-plakat-2007-09-04-installasjonsfest.odt odt file too].

• Organizer of the LoCo activities within the [http://flisol.info/FLISOL2008/Ecuador FLISOL 2008] in Ecuador. See our wiki page [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EcuadorTeam/FLISOL here]

Trivia

• At a age of 2 my daughter was able to recognize what she calls: "el ubuntu" (on a monitor, bag, sticker, CD, coffee cup... you name it).

• I ended up in 3 meetings while vacationing in Ecuador the summer of 2007: One at an International School (wanted to try Edubuntu), one at one of the biggest [http://www.elcomercio.com newspapers] in the country and at the Ecuadorian presidency. These meetings where undoubtedly the final motivation for me to start the Ecuador LoCo, so MauLuna and I did days after the meeting. This happened:

  • School: I have tried to find out what happened there, but with no luck

  • Newspaper: They had load trouble in their web server. Incoming connections peaks with their IIS setup put the server down to its knees and it eventually collapsed. So MauLuna (ubuntu-ec co-founder) and I proposed to them to put Ubuntu as the front webserver and run the IIS in the back serving the content. They said they would consider it, but wanted to use RedHat (as they had in their spamfilter ;). In the end we never heard from them, but they ended up implemented our idea. Which is a victory for [http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.elcomercio.com Free Software] and a step closer to fix [http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www2.elcomercio.com bug #1]. Pretty cool I think!

  • Presidency: I met two key persons in of the Ecuadorian Free Software movement in this meeting: [http://rafael.bonifaz.ec/blog/ Rafael Bonifaz] former president of ASLE (Ecuadorian free Software Association) and now working as Free Software Director in the newly created Bureau for IT and [http://www.estebanmendieta.com/blog/ Esteban Mendieta] IT adviser in the presidency. They both organized the meeting between [http://www.stallman.org/#serious Richard M. Stallman] and Ecuador's president [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zpruk8L0Us Rafael Correa] which lead to [http://www.fabianrodriguez.com/blog/archives/2008/04/11/software-libre-en-ecuador/ his endorsement of Free Software] by [http://ia360931.us.archive.org/0/items/decreto/Decreto_1014_software_libre_Ecuador.pdf law]. Esteban is part of the team [https://launchpad.net/~estebandid0 formally], Rafael is not, but as far as I know he uses some *buntu flavor (probably Gobuntu).

• I was introduced to Ubuntu by a guy who walked in the [http://www.mobildata.no/forhandlere.aspx?id=1721&page=3&mid=1053&fylke=1126 store where I worked] and wanted to buy a [http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,104414/article.html laptop]. So we started talking about what he need it for and stuff and eventually he named Linux so we went on and I mentioned that I used Fedora Core (or something) at the moment, but upgrading to a newer release was such a pain (it was!), and then he said: "I have discovered this new distro, it even beats debian! But I prefer BlackBox over the GNOME standard". What happened? I got too interested in the issue (he even begged me to just do the sales job, he really wanted to be spontaneous) and no Laptop was sold... In exchange I got the love of Ubuntu! So if you are that guy: Thank you man! If you are my former boss, sorry...

• After I started studying I have found out that I use weekly (at least) 15 hours on Ubuntu related stuff (comprehending reading, translating, writing (e-mail, wiki, forum, websites, blog), testing and advocating among other activities) and I was really shocked to find out that one week I used over 40 hours!!?? - I have stopped counting...
• I got a job interview offering at FAST (from a Senior Recruitment Consultant), just by talking to a guy at a bar. I think I'm not qualified for the job, but that's not the point, the point is that it was the Ubuntu @ FAST (now sold to M$) conversation that got me the offer. I just haven't made the call... Ending up at M$ is not my idea of the live I want.

Comments

• Hubuntu is a major contributor to the Spanish-speakers Ubuntu community. He has worked hard to strengthen relations between the Spanish-speaking LoCo Teams. He is actively involved in community projects such as the creation of http://doc.ubuntu-es.org (a great site of Spanish documentation for all the community), the Spanish translation of Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, and organizing LoCos Team members. He has been an important member in the project to create a large Spanish-speakers community integrated by all the LoCo teams, avoiding duplicate work in our communities, and strengthening the relationship and good communication between them. Also, he actually works on the integration of the different Spanish sites, finding to improve the experience of the user, that actually has a different login for launchpad, doc.ubuntu-es.org, ubuntu-es.org and their specific Local Team web site. [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kelp kelp]

• Ruben has contributed tremendously to the Spanish speaking Ubuntu community, and is long over due as an Ubuntu Member. He has my full support MartinAlbisetti

• Ruben has rapidly taken a leading role in re-organizing many crucial resources, most notably doc.ubuntu-es.org. He's also been very insistent on banding together several Hispanic LoCos into better collaboration. I fully support his membership. - FabianRodriguez

• Ruben does a superb job with Spanish translation of the UWN. He also keeps us up to date on great events, like FLISOL. - NickAli

• I am alex, this is cool!!!