IanDexter
Email: <iandexter AT SPAMFREE gmail DOT com>
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I'm a web plumber and network janitor for the [http://www.philrice.gov.ph Philippine Rice Research Institute], and our current project, the [http://www.openacademy.ph Open Academy for Philippine Agriculture - Pinoy Farmers' Internet].
My foray into open source started in 2001, when I got to look after a tiny Red Hat box that does everything from web and DNS caching to doing my laundry. Since then, I've ventured into other distros, including Fedora Core, Slackware, Mandrake and Debian. I've recently deployed a 30-node LTSP setup running on Ubuntu Hoary for the [http://www.philrice.gov.ph PhilRice] Biotechnology Intellectual Property Rights Training Center. Our organization is currently implementing a migration of desktops to Ubuntu and Philippine-produced [http://www.bayanihan.gov.ph Bayanihan Linux].
I am also part of the [https://launchpad.net/people/loco-philippine-team LoCo Philippine Team]. Hopefully, I can contribute to the localization efforts for the Philippines, as well as some local testing of Edubuntu and Kubuntu distributions in my province.