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I'm Marco Rodrigues, and I was born at Leverkusen, Germany, but currently live at [http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portugal Tondela, Portugal]. I've been an Ubuntu Fan/Promoter/Contributor since Breezy release. I come from Fedora, and when I used Ubuntu for the first time, I never think again in another distro. I try to contribue as much I can with bug triage, bug hunting, bug reporting, new ideas, packages & patches.

Information

• Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~gothicx/

• Member of [http://www.ubuntu-pt.org Ubuntu Portugal]

• Member of Blog Aggregator [http://www.planetgeek.org Planet Geek] and [http://planet.ubuntu-pt.org Planet Ubuntu Portugal]

• Ubuntu User: [http://www.ubuntucounter.org #3681]

Plans

• Grow up my project to help more Ubuntu Users - [https://launchpad.net/ustouch USTouch]. Maybe one day it will be part of universe repository.

• Became the maintainer of [https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ddclient ddclient] package for Ubuntu. Today I'm a member of DDclient as you can see [http://sourceforge.net/users/kmos/ here].

• Be an active Ubuntu member in different areas.

• Continue to contribute to Debian with my [http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=gothicx@sapo.pt packages] and bug reporting to remove Ubuntu delta.

Contributions

• My List of Reported/Subscribed [https://bugs.launchpad.net/~gothicx Bugs]

• My List of Contributed [https://launchpad.net/~gothicx/+packages Packages]

• [https://bugs.launchpad.net/malone/+bug/91925 Expire Old Bugs Reported at Malone]

• [https://bugs.launchpad.net/rosetta/+bug/91988 Speed Up Rosetta page load and language preferences]

• Test my Laptop [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/AcerAspire5633WLMi ACER Aspire 5633WLMi] with latest Ubuntu stable.

• Patched requestsync (ubuntu-dev-tools) to have the current version of debian package at subject.

• [http://www.mail-archive.com/find.php?domains=www.mail-archive.com&q=Marco+Rodrigues+ubuntu+debian&sa=Search+mailing+lists&sitesearch=www.mail-archive.com&client=pub-7266757337600734&forid=1&channel=2703820358&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&cof=GALT%3A%23C8C8C8%3BGL%3A1%3BDIV%3A%23CD9685%3BVLC%3A000000%3BAH%3Acenter%3BBGC%3AFFFFFF%3BLBGC%3AFFFFFF%3BALC%3A006792%3BLC%3A006792%3BT%3A000000%3BGFNT%3A006792%3BGIMP%3A006792%3BFORID%3A11&hl=en Mail Archive activity on Ubuntu/Debian]

• [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Council/KmosReport Report about my MOTU work]

Testimonials

• [https://launchpad.net/~marcodasilva Marco Da Silva] -- Great member of the Portuguese community. Active and available.

• [http://launchpad.net/~tiagoboldt Tiago Boldt Sousa] -- Marco has been a great helper to the Portuguese community, particulary through the help provided in our #ubuntu-pt in freenode!

• [https://launchpad.net/~susana Susana] -- Marco is a very active member of the Ubuntu community. He is one of the most active translators in the Portuguese team and gives a lot of support in our irc channel.

• [https://launchpad.net/~norsetto Cesare Tirabassi]

  -- Marco is a very keen contributor, he really tries his best and is strongly motivated to help and participate. Marco is also strongly willed and impatient and because of this had difficulties to integrate within the MOTU community. He is however an intelligent person, instead of loosing his willingness to help and contribute he is learning from these unpleasant experiences and I have have hopes that he will temper down and be able to join the MOTU community in the future. I would also like to see him more active in the answer's tracker, where I believe his competence, energy and willingness to help should really be a strong asset for the community DateTime(2008-01-17T15:25:36Z).

  -- In view of Marco's recent request for membership, I have been requested to update my testimonial to reflect latest developments of the saga. As I said, I believe that Marco is very motivated to help and participate, and I also believe that he is strongly willed and impatient, perhaps too strongly willed and impatient to be able to integrate within the community. Regrettably, he is in disaccord with prominent members of the MOTU community, he has been asked to stop contributing to development (and unfortunately tried to bypass this by creating a fake LP account) and has lost his IRC right to talk in the #ubuntu-motu channel. On the positive side, I see that Marco still contributes actively in Debian, and, as an user, reports bugs and requests updates in Ubuntu. In light of this, right now I don't see how Marco can be recognised as an Ubuntu member. I would personally like to see him at least trying to reconcile himself with the MOTU community (obviously provided he is given that chance) DateTime(2008-06-02T19:39:00Z).