About me

18 years old, American. (Birthday 08-21-1991)
High school senior
Using Linux for 3 years, started off with Fedora off and on (switching between that and windows) before quickly moving on to Kubuntu full-time. New to Linux on the desktop (04/2006), been using Kubuntu since Feisty.
Actually, my dad started me off with Linux as a youngin', starting at Red Hat 5 or 6. I have fond memories of playing XBill and XBoing on our 486 in the basement.

Interests

email echidnaman(at)kubuntu(dot)org
irc JontheEchidna on freenode #kubuntu #kubuntu-devel #konversation #amarok #plasma
Launchpad page

Name & URL	Description	Version	Distribution	Comments
Toggle-compositing	KWin effects toggling plasmoid	0.1-0ubuntu1	Intrepid	Approved
plasmoid-wifi	Wifi signal strength plasmoid	0.5-0ubuntu1	Intrepid	Approved
plasmoid-am4rok	Media controller plasmoid	0.5-0ubuntu1	Intrepid	Approved
plasmoid-weather	Weather display plasmoid	0.4-0ubuntu1	Intrepid	Approved
plasmoid-previewer	File previewer plasmoid	0.1-0ubuntu1	Intrepid	Approved
plasmoid-quickaccess	Quick file access plasmoid	0.5.2-0ubuntu1	Intrepid	Approved
plasmoid-flickr	Display interesting photos on flickr	0.1-0ubuntu1	Intrepid	Approved
plasmoid-lancelot	Alternative application launcher menu for KDE4	1.0.3~svn860641-0ubuntu2	Intrepid	Approved
kio-bookmarks	KIO slave for displaying/navigating bookmarks	0.2.1-0ubuntu1	Intrepid	Approved

Helped package KDE 4.1 RC1. (~ half of the language packs, plus skanlite)
Backported kdewebdev-kde4 4.0.98 to the Kubuntu-members-kde4 ppa.
Backported konq-plugins-kde4 4.0.98 to the Kubuntu-members-kde4 ppa.
Worked on this for Intrepid: https://wiki.kubuntu.org/KubuntuIntrepidDesktopDefaults
Packaged 3 of the 4.1 final packages for Intrepid
Backported 11 of the KDE 4.1 final packages to the Hardy PPA (apachelogger can vouch for all this)
Various miscellaneous packaging-related bugfixes.
Heavy involvement in almost every KDE release since 4.1. (Ask any of my sponsors/companion developers)
Heavy involvement in the general development of Kubuntu 9.04, 9.10, and 10.04, focusing on packaging in both universe and main as well as bug control.

Ported jockey-kde from PyQt4 -> PyKDE4 for Intrepid.
Ported software-properties-kde from PyQt4 -> PyKDE4 for Intrepid.
Contributed various bugfix/polishing patches for Adept.
Lead developer of the upcoming kubuntu-notification-helper notification daemon.
C++ port of the kubuntu-firefox-installer, which was able to knock off 3MB of ruby dependencies off the Kubuntu live CD while remaining total feature parity with the ruby version.

I have been actively triaging KDE bugs for over a year as of November 2009
I resolved ~15% of the bugs in kdebase for the kde3 -> kde4 transition. (yuriy can vouch for this)

I have lurked in #kubuntu-kde4 since around the middle of April, 2008 giving support. (Moved to #kubuntu when Intrepid was released)