IanDexter
Contact info
Name: Ian Dexter R. Marquez
Location: Science City of Munoz, Philippines
Email: iandexter@gmail.com
Blog: [http://iandexter.co.nr Coredump] [http://feeds.feedburner.com/Coredump Feeds]
Status page: [http://iandexter.pbwiki.com Current status]
IRC: iandexter on irc.freenode.net and irc.free.net.ph
GPG key: [http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x707F6E40 0x707F6E40]
About me
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 frequent the [http://linux.org.ph Philippine Linux Users Group] mailing list, dishing out help to other Linux users from time to time, but mostly asking a lot of questions myself. I'm also a member of the [http://www.cp-union.org Computer Professionals Union], a Philippine-based group committed to free and open source software and information technology for the people. I'm part of the [http://tl.linux.org.ph/ Debian-TL translation team], as well, doing translations on some packages.
Involvement on Ubuntu
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 a member 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 do some local testing, deployment and promotion of Ubuntu, Edubuntu and Kubuntu distributions in my province.