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 * '''Place:''' Helsinki, Suomi & Tallinn, Eesti  * '''Place:''' Helsinki, Suomi & Tallinn, Eesti (yes, I commute between the two cities/countries about twice a week)
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 * Attended and contributed to UDS Intrepid in Prague.
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 * Make Ubuntu the #1 Linux distribution in the Educational and Governmental sectors.  * Make Ubuntu the #1 Linux distribution in the Educational and Governmental sectors, with a focus on LTSP.
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 * [http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=q-funk%40iki.fi Debian Maintainer] since 2003.  * [http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=q-funk%40iki.fi Maintainer] since 2003.
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 * Expertise in Business Strategy, Key Account Management, Product Management, Export Sales & Marketing.
 * Co-founded [http://www.linutop.com Linutop], then moved on to join the company that designs and manufactures their hardware.
 * Currently working as Business Development Manager at [http://www.artecgroup.com Artec Group], a startup that contributes to Coreboot and Linux kernel, and that manufactures the [http://www.thincan.com ThinCan] thin client.
Expertise in Business Strategy, Key Account Management, Product Management, Export Sales & Marketing:
 * Currently the Business Development Manager at [http://www.artecgroup.com Artec], a hardware startup that contributes to Coreboot and Linux kernel, and manufactures the [http://www.thincan.com ThinCan].
 * Established [http://www.linutop.com Linutop] with French partners, then migrated to the company that designs and manufactures their hardware (see above).
... preceded by 10 years in various Free Software startups as CTO (network security products), Product Specialist (mobile communication platform) , etc.

About M-E

  • Name: Martin-Éric Racine

  • Place: Helsinki, Suomi & Tallinn, Eesti (yes, I commute between the two cities/countries about twice a week)

  • Work: Business Development Manager

I've been a Free Software CLI tools user since 1996. My Linux experience started with a fail attempt at installing Red Hat in 1999, immediately followed by a successful Debian install on the same hardware. I've been a satisfied Free Desktop user ever since. While I have been maintaining Debian packages since 2003, my main focus has always been on advocacy, rather than on software development. Sébastien Bacher is the one that prompted me to try Ubuntu, back when Warty was still being developed.

Contributions to Ubuntu

  • Primary contact on Launchpad for all the [https://launchpad.net/~q-funk/+packages Ubuntu packages] maintained upstream at Debian.

  • Lot of time spent on X.org issues pertaining to the Geode chipset to make it work on LTSP.
  • Involved in CUPS maintenance and in language packs for Estonian, Latvian and Russian.
  • Member of [http://www.linux-tuki.fi/ Linux Tuki] ("Linux Support inc." in Finnish), which is the official Ubuntu support partner for Finland.

  • Attended and contributed to UDS Intrepid in Prague.

Goals for Ubuntu

  • Make Ubuntu the #1 Linux distribution in the Educational and Governmental sectors, with a focus on LTSP.
  • Promote Asterisk and Open Mosix as original LTSP extensions to leverage the CPU power of thin clients.

Contributions to Debian

Contributions to ALSA

  • Created the ["ALSA on PPC"] reference to document the status of ALSA support on PPC hardware.

Professional Background

Expertise in Business Strategy, Key Account Management, Product Management, Export Sales & Marketing:

... preceded by 10 years in various Free Software startups as CTO (network security products), Product Specialist (mobile communication platform) , etc.

Testimonials

  • TBA.


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