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About Me

I'm an Engineer for a company based outside Reading that develop Linux based storage platforms for the video editing market. In my spare time, I attempt to play (read murder) the banjo, play board games and fiddle with electronics.

Things I do for Ubuntu

Community

• I'm an active member of the Ubuntu-UK LoCo

• I have started trying to improve community support in the UK loco by helping draft some guidelines and investigating what drives people to help with support - More info at My Blog, here and here

• I have chaired UK LoCo meetings

• Presented a talk at OggCamp on improving the way we provide support - Outcome here

• Started forming a support oriented team for the UK LoCo - here Follow on from initial meeting here

• I attempt to give helpful support and advice in the #ubuntu-uk irc channel

Development

• I tend to run late Alphas / Early Betas at home on my non-critical machines and report issues as appropriate

Support

• I've contributed bug reports

• I help out with queries on the UK LoCo mailing list where appropriate

External Stuff

• I have supplied (very poor) patches to a couple of projects

Room for Improvement

• I am attempting to become fluent in a single programming language (rather than be passable in a few)
• Need to consult more with other projects and do more research into any problems I'm attempting to solve
• Have not yet conquered world. More effort required.
• Want to learn howto paint/draw with watercolours.

Testimonials

• daubers is always helpful and enthusiastic in the #ubuntu-uk channel, and in real life too. He is very knowledgeable about high end storage systems and willing to share what he knows with others. -- alanbell 2010-07-16 20:46:42

  daubers is a friendly, helpful person to have around in #ubuntu-uk, and has recently been working hard on setting up a new system for offering community support in the UK LoCo. -- dutchie 2010-09-07 18:53:31

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