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| '''Montana Mendy''' (born June 26, 1990) is a American software engineer who currently holds several board of director positions at small grade startups in the San Francisco, Bay Area (South of Market in particular). Montana has been a forum member since 2007. Montana gained notoriety particularly for submitting some "kernel patches" and also submitting some of the first fixes to help solve the "ndiswrapper" issues that were occurring in late 2008. "Mike" from the Ubuntu Forums had done an interview with Montana back when his forum name was "Codename" and was really thrilled about how young Montana was, and how intelligent and nonchalant he was about a lot of things. Montana hopes to return fully to the forums in 2014 and submitting multiple patches, and doing what he loves, which is to help the Linux community. |
'''Montana Mendy''' (born June 26, 1990) is a American software engineer who currently holds several board of director positions at small grade startups and is an avid Linux contributor in the San Francisco, Bay Area (South of Market in particular). Montana has been a forum member since 2007, Montana first gained notoriety particularly for submitting some "kernel patches" that fixed a lot of wireless issues as well as submitting some of the first fixes to help solve the "ndiswrapper" issues that were occurring in late 2008. |
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Montana Mendy
Montana Mendy (born June 26, 1990) is a American software engineer who currently holds several board of director positions at small grade startups and is an avid Linux contributor in the San Francisco, Bay Area (South of Market in particular). Montana has been a forum member since 2007, Montana first gained notoriety particularly for submitting some "kernel patches" that fixed a lot of wireless issues as well as submitting some of the first fixes to help solve the "ndiswrapper" issues that were occurring in late 2008.
Personal life
Mendy was born in Hayward, California and lived in Newport Beach, California before his family moved to Fremont, California where he spent most of his time learning how to program in Pascal. He dropped out of High School at the 11th grade in the hopes of finding a career in tech, within this, he found The Ubuntu Forums. With the knowledge of reading, and the forums, he was able to make his first tech startup at the age of only 16.
Forum career
2008: |
Considered to be one of the top "wireless" contributors on the forums. |
2009: |
Released various kernel patches to improve wireless (not all of which were ndiswrapper related) |
2010: |
Montana was interviewed by the forum member Mike. Mike complimented Montana on how much he had helped the community in the short/brief time that Montana was there. You can read the interview here. |
2011-Current: |
Montana is spending most of his days working on various patches for Ubuntu, and plans to ship them out soon, and sees how they play out, he's not active (posting) on the forums much, but is still very aware of the issues and plans on to keep submitting patches to the Ubuntu and Linux community |
Montana was also featured on CrunchBase (owned by TechCrunch). Read the article here.
Notable contributions
Submitted various kernel patches, that fixed a lot of the wireless problems, especially for 64-bit users.
Solved one of the original ndiswrapper issues in 2008, made a HOWTO thread, and it fixed a lot of user problems.
Considered by some in the forums, the leader in fixing wireless issues in 2008 (linuxwizard, dmizer).
5800+ posts in the community.
Montana's current goal for Ubuntu/Linux
- Everything working in synch. "I don't care how many patches I have to throw out".
Ways to benefit everybody with EVERY piece of information.
IRC participation.
Montana Mendy (last edited 2014-01-01 02:22:55 by c-24-130-198-141)