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Contact Information

https://launchpad.net/@@/person Name:

Montana Mendy

https://launchpadlibrarian.net/16121192/gem-sm.png Location:

San Francisco

https://launchpadlibrarian.net/7171615/ubuntulogo_s.png Ubuntu Forum member:

Crafty Kisses

https://launchpad.net/favicon.ico Launchpad ID:

CraftyKisses

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 in the San Francisco, Bay Area (South of Market in particular). Montana first gained notoriety particularly for submitting various "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

  • Ubuntu Submitted various kernel patches, that fixed a lot of the wireless problems, especially for 64-bit users.
    Ubuntu Solved one of the original ndiswrapper issues in 2008, made a HOWTO thread, and it fixed a lot of user problems.
    Ubuntu Considered by some in the forums, the leader in fixing wireless issues in 2008 (linuxwizard, dmizer).
    Ubuntu 5800+ posts in the community, with over 4000 wireless problems completely solved.

Montana's current goal for Ubuntu/Linux

  • Ubuntu Everything working in synch. "I don't care how many patches I have to throw out".
    Ubuntu Ways to benefit everybody with EVERY piece of information that hits the forum.
    Ubuntu Montana would like to see more IRC participation.

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