Neskie Manuel

My name is Neskie Manuel. I am Secwepemc from what is known as BC. I would call it Secwepemc'ulucw. I am working on finishing my Physics degree. I am not a fluent speaker in Secwepemctsín, but am working on getting Ubuntu translated into my mother tongue. I'm also trying to finish up a Physics degree which I'll probably use to go into teaching at some point, but right now I have other plans.

I got into Linux a few years ago when I bought my first laptop a Dell Insprion 6400. After the first day of using my computer I hated Windows, it had all this commercial software asking for money to get the full version. I decided I'd install Ubuntu because it was based on Debian, and it seemed to make sensible improvements to the Debian system.

Current Ubuntu Activities

• Manage Ubuntu Secwepemc Team on Launchpad.

• Package fonts needed for display of special characters ttf-lg-aboriginal. They are now part of Debian but will be synced with Intrepid

• Updating the UbuntuSecwepemcTranslators Wiki Site.

• Submitting indigenous orthographies from this list of languages into fontconfig. These can be broken down into roman, cherokee, and syllabic orthographies.

• Advocating it's use among the Aboriginal/First Nations/Indigenous peoples of Canada.

• Uploading NMU packages to the Ubuntu Secwepemc Translators PPA to test before submitting patches to Ubuntu.

Future Ubuntu Plans

• Get Mi'kmaw, Ojibway, Cree, and Inuktitut interested in using Ubuntu and doing localizing work.

• Create Locales for each of these languages using First Voices website for info

• Create XKB maps for Indigenous Languages of North America based upon Languagegeek.com keyboard maps.

Skills

• Packaging Debian/Ubuntu.
• Patching systems: cdbs and quilt.
• Using Launchpad for submitting bugs, using the PPA
• Programming Langauges: C, Python, PHP, regexp
• Editor of choice: Vim

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