|| '''Name''': || James Page || || '''IRC''': || '''jamespage''' on ''irc.freenode.net'' || || '''Launchpad''': || [[http://launchpad.net/~james-page]] || || '''Blog''': || [[http://javacruft.wordpress.com]] || || '''Location''': || ''Norfolk, UK'' || == Background == I've been using and deploying Linux since I was at University in the early 90's; started with Slackware, then Red Hat, then Fedora and then Ubuntu in the last couple of years. Apache + JBoss on Red Hat Enterprise Linux was my first foray into deploying open-source instead of propriety software in an enterprise and I've not looked back; The rest of the propriety software environment quickly followed..... Nagios, Puppet, Solr, MySQL and more. I find that open-source is both more cost effective and more flexible than deploying propriety software. Before that I was a Java Applications Developer working with early versions of Java Enterprise Edition on very expensive propriety middle-ware. == My involvement == My current areas of involvement: * Ubuntu Server Team. * Ubuntu Server ISO Testing. * Ubuntu Server ec2 Testing. * Ubuntu Java. == Status == This week: * Polishing packaging and submitting packages in the Jenkins dependency chain for upload to Debian. Next week: * More package polishing * QA Automation Sprint in London