JendaVancura

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  • One OS to rule them all,

    One OS to find them.

    One OS to join them all,

    And in the Freedom apt them.

Contact

Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/people/jenda

If you still don't have Jabber: 335523258 on ICQ and jendavancura&volny,cz for MSN ... ... but you really should get Jabber. (BTW, If you have a gmail address - a Jabber account comes with that)

About

Jenda Vancura - me indeed. Home ubuntu user, no more no less - have been using Ubuntu as my main and only desktop since August 2005, and am now running one Dapper desktop and one Dapper laptop. There are four more machines in my family, though none where i live, and all four are being guarded by their respective owners, and I'm biding my time, waiting for an opportunity to get them into my grasp, catching them at unawares...

I have several successful Ubuntu converts on my record in Canada and the Czech Republic (make that 3 or 4 as of April 06). Apart from that, i leave little firefox seeds whereever I go, I didn't count those - must be quite a few now, and several Thunderbirds and Openoffices came along with that. Firefox is easiest to spread, as it's by far better than the mainstream .

I work systematically, but individually with a friend as yet, to promote use of ODF and FLOSS in my immediate surroundings, personally providing what's necessary to my 'victims', with emphasis on wikipedia (& sister projects) and firefox, because they are the best we have to offer. Since Dapper... I have nothing to be ashamed of with Ubuntu either.

Membership

  • Since I'm signed up for the next CC meeting as an Ubuntu Member candidate, I'll try to list my contributions to the Community here:

* Marketing Team

  • I have revived the Marketing Team, whose forum (forum down, sorry) lay idle (completely) for four months, attracting over 80 new members there and finding&bringing back at least 4 old ones, including the Team Lead. The webstats of the forum have increased severalfold on April 6 when i started the campaign. I'm a moderator and very active (#2) user at the forum and I administer the team's IRC channel - #ubuntu-marketing @ irc.freenode.net and the launchpad team with Corey Burger. I've been significantly involved in the spreadubuntu project, among other things having the domains registered (by JaneSilber) and helping the structure proposal up. I helped stir new life in the Ubuntu Magazine and DIY Marketing, the latter being a de facto sub-project of SpreadUbuntu - for which I've helped create posters and stickers, which I'm now having printed for sending out at little over printing price to the community (as yet, I cannot afford to invest the money without hope of regaining it, as a student).

* Loco Team

* Easyubuntu

  • I helped write the documentation to easyubuntu with KarlGoetz, and helped out with that project, most notably, perhaps with runtime texts and features, such as https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EasyUbuntu/OfflineModeSpec or even helping easyubuntu and easybreezy merge when they did. I am an operator in #easyubuntu I translated the package into Czech, and then found people to translate the required lines into Portuguese, Spanish, Finnish and Swedish (Some of the changes are credited to me in LP, but the program's credits point to the real translators).

* DIY

* IRC

  • I hang out in #ubuntu and #ubuntuforums, occasionally helping passers-by (why do I always have the urge to say bypassers?) Recently, I gave a lot of time to several troublesome users, trying to save them from giving up on the community (after being rebuffed for trying to socialise within the main #ubuntu channel etc.) - this is usually young people who don't yet know that they shouldn't be too emotive on IRC, or use tooooo many repeated characters, and the operators don't have the time to try explaining the ways of the on-line community (it's not their duty anyway, unlike keeping the channel in order) and have no option but to ban them. For obvious reasons, I can't state the names of those involved here. I run ##help-unofficial, which is a general help channel, and #help is forwarded there (!!!) (update: it doesn't forward directly anymore, only through topic) - although it is a general help channel, Ubuntu does come up in debate quite often (grep reports 216 mentions).

* New User Network

  • Even more recently, I've joined a few IRC team people in reviving the New User Network. We have reached a few good points, such as the #ubuntu-classroom channel, which is to serve as a quit corner to drag newbies from overcrowded channels when more lengthy explanaition is necessary. NewUsersNetworkGuidelines I 'run' the new user section on the Czech forum - in order to gain experience with NUs. I would like the NUN to come up with new ways of helping NUs integrate into the community.

* IRC Translator Project

  • Well, so far, I'm available if needed for Czech translation. Might try to help organise this a bit, added suggestion at it's wiki: IRCTranslatorProject

* My future within Ubuntu

  • Well, it has been largely a coincidence which brought me to the Marketing Team, and yet, i found that it's exactly what i like doing. I would like to make the MT into an effective body providing resources to anyone who might wish to market Ubuntu locally, as well as organise massive marketing campaigns on the net (such as spreadubuntu might become). Ultimately, of course, this leads to the final bugfix for bug #1. I would also like to unify the Czech community, which I've started participating in much later than the international and which seems to have quite a few disagreements within (IRC vs. Jabber; Forum vs. Mailing List etc.).

Poem courtesy of ompaul (and the 'apt' is a contribution of lastnode)


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