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Who I am

• Hi, I am Milo Casagrande, a Computer Scientist from Italy, now living in France, in the beautiful Cote d'Azur

• My home town Vittorio Veneto, where I lived, and where I live

Where to contact me

• <milo NO SPAM AT ubuntu DOT com>

• launchpad

• blog (English and Italian mixed)

• linkedin

• twitter

• Gwaihir on IRC

Things I do & did

• I work as an Expert Engineer for INRIA, developing in Java with Open Source Technologies, NoSQL, Android, and Cloud Technolgies

• I am part of the Italian LoCo Team, member of the Italian LoCo Council, leader of the Italian translators team

• I am a GNOME Foundation Member
• I am involved in various translation teams, and also on the documentation front
• I contributed to the birth of the Italian Community, and to the creation of various Ubuntu Italian teams (documentation, marketing, ...)

Things I like to do

• Using and spreading open source technologies
• Coding, translating, and managing teams
• Hanging out at FLOSS conferences

Various Activities

Conferences

Planned conferences:

• fossa in Lyon, France, as a speaker, where I've been invited to talk about my experiences in community management

• UDS-P

Conferences I attended:

• DUCCIT (Debian Ubuntu Community Conference - Italy) - attended as a speaker, and took part in the organization
• Ubuntu Italian Meeting - as a speaker, and organizer
• Various Italin Linux Day - also as a speaker
• UDS Natty
• UDS Jaunty
• GUADEC 2010
• FOSDEM 2009, 2010
• Writing Open Source: The Conference (Owen Sound, Canada)
• UDS Karmic (Barcelona, Spain)
• PyConTRE Italy (Florence, Italy)

Debian-Installer

Page to be used for information on how to contribute to D-I translations in Debian:

• /DebianInstaller

Running for the Community Concil

The Letter

This is the letter I sent to the Community Council that summarizes why I am running for the Community Council:

I'm Milo Casagrande, from the Italian Ubuntu LoCo team, and I would
like to propose my candidacy for the Community Council elections.

My involvement in the Ubuntu community is mostly focused within the
Italian Community where I serve as a member of the Italian LoCo
Council since 2006, supervising the community and taking part in the
organization of events, and as the Team Leader of the Italian
translators team. I am a member of the Ubuntu Translators Coordinator
team, and of the Launchpad Translations Coordinators.

I'm also a GNOME Foundation Member where I contribute in the GNOME
Italian translation team, and in the GNOME Documentation team.

You can find more information about me at the following link:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MiloCasagrande

I'm proposing my candidacy for the Community Council to bring my
various and broad experiences from different open source communities,
from a non native-English speaking LoCo Team and community, and also
from a corporate environment where I work and where we use Ubuntu and
free/open source software extensively, to the broader international
community.

With the hope that my candidacy will be taken into account.
Ciao.

Why

As already said in the presentation letter, I'm proposing myself in order to bring my experiences in working and collaborating in the Italian community, and within corporate environments where open source software is in use, to the broader international community.

I would also like to improve the communication between the Community Council and the community: communication is everything in a decentralized and on-line community, and not all the people can be on-line or have a permanent presence on IRC.

Testimonials

• -- elle.uca 2011-09-29 13:14:22 Milo has a great and long time experiences in both Ubuntu and Open Source in general, as well as in community management. These make him a perfect candidate for community council, but the actual and very true endowment of Milo is the innate ability to be "human", to understand people and to find a shared solution, shared by anyone not only the majority, the best solution.

• What can I say about Milo? He is a selfless motivator, that brings fun to everything he's involved with. He's a very hardworker and has done many great things for the Italian LoCo, Translations, and the Ubuntu Project as a whole. He often demonstrates a level head, and wisdom in an extremely helpful manner. He demonstrates a can-do attitude, and collaborates well with others! I have spent a good amount of time with Milo at several UDS events, and have maintained a strong friendship with him since we met during UDS-Jaunty. On several occasions, I have confided in him on some of my own ideas and decisions as a leader, and he has always provided keen insight to help make my decisions easier to reach. I would without reservation recommend him for the Community Council, as I feel he is extremely well suited to take on that role, and he would rise to the challenges he would face with great success. -- itnet7 2011-09-29 14:36:12

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