About me

I'm a 27 years old programmer by profession. I was born and live in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maceió Maceió], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alagoas Alagoas], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil Brasil]. Maceió is known as Water Paradise, because its wonderful beaches and lagoons.

I am married and have two beautiful children. I work for a [http://www.usinasantoantonio.com.br sugar/alcohol factory].

Open Source

I started using Linux in 1997 at School. One year later, i was responsible for an local ISP, by migrating its servers to Linux. My love for Linux and Open Source softwares has grew up from that epoch.

Ubuntu

I started using Ubuntu in 2005, with Breezy. It saved me a lot of time by doing what i had to do manually in other distributions. So, definitely Ubuntu is my distro!

Contributions to Ubuntu

In the spirit of Open Source model, i like to contribute to the community. Some Ubuntu-related contributions are:

• Work on bug triages (ubuntu-qa team)

  • [https://bugs.launchpad.net/people/wendell/+subscribedbugs?field.searchtext=&orderby=-importance&search=Search&field.status%3Alist=Unconfirmed&field.status%3Alist=Needs+Info&field.status%3Alist=Rejected&field.status%3Alist=Confirmed&field.status%3Alist=In+Progress&field.status%3Alist=Fix+Committed&field.status%3Alist=Fix+Released&assignee_option=any&field.assignee=&field.owner=&field.status_upstream=&field.status_upstream-empty-marker=1&field.omit_dupes.used=&field.omit_dupes=on&field.has_patch.used=&field.tag= List of bugs i have worked on]

• Work on translations (ubuntu-l10n-pt-br team)

  • [https://translations.launchpad.net/people/wendell/+translations Some translations i have made]

• Work on documentation (ubuntu-br-doc)
• Help users on list and irc (brazilian users)
• A few patches for Ubuntu packages

• Administrator of Alagoas LoCo sub-team (ubuntu-br-al team)

• I've made a simple frontend to festival, [https://launchpad.net/products/fala/ fala] ([http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=176828&ssid=41759 Screenshot]). I hope it get in Universe in Feisty.

• [https://bugz.launchpad.net/people/wendell/+karma My Launchpad karma]

Plans for Ubuntu

I believe Ubuntu can be better yet, both for novice and advanced Linux users. I want to continue helping on bugs and become an Ubuntu developer.

Contributions to other open source softwares

I have contributed on some softwares, like gPHPEdit, SBackup, Vino (GNOME).

Testimonials

• Jonh is a very good member of Brazilian Team. He is very present and doing a good job with translations, documentation, bug reports and general helping. He also has a blog linked to [http://planeta.ubuntu-br.org Ubuntu Brazilian Planet]. [:AndreNoel3:AndreNoel]