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| Location: Adelaide, South Australia | = Profile = || Email || paul@mawsonlakes.org || || Launchpad || https://launchpad.net/people/paulschulz || || Location || Mawson Lakes, Adelaide, South Australia || || URL || http://www.mawsonlakes.org || || TimeZone || CST +0930 || || IRC || pschulz01 || || Teams || AustralianTeam BugSquad EnglishTranslation UbuntuMembers || || Frapper || http://www.frappr.com/pschulz01 || || PGP || FE07 0E0F - [[http://pgp.cs.uu.nl/mk_path.cgi?STAT=FE070e0f&STATS=statistics|Statistics]] || || Amateur Radio Op. || VK5FPAW || |
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| Email: mailto: paul@mawsonlakes.org | Note: This page needs a vacuum. = People to whom I owe Beers/Pizza/Yiros = * persia - Help with REVU and packaging questions. * LukeYelavich ('TheMuso') - help with a whole bunch of packaging questions. * ??? - The person(?) who got cups/gnome to autodetect Brother network printers. * jmitch - help with 'keyboard' accessability issue (My keys don't work!) * bimbari - system -> prefs -> sound, System Beep * greebo - Software Freedom Day ideas and promotional material * lucychilli - all round great person * siccness - assistance with 'WebDAV' configuation. * foutrelis - assistance with restoring corrupted 'initramfs' == People to whom I did ows Beers/Pizza/Yiros, and have now paid up == * Hobbsee - help with 'keyboard' accessability issue (My keys don't work!) - Debt paid in full with pub lunch in Adelaide. |
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| === Connecting Up 06 === | The following links are to Wiki pages that I have created, have contributed to, or are currently collaborating on. |
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| When: May 1-2 2006 | == Currently == * [[PaulSchulz/TimeZones]] * [[PaulSchulz/UbuntuServerDocumentation]] * [[PaulSchulz/InteractiveDesktopBackground]] * [[PaulSchulz/Projects/AustralianTeamPackage]] * PaulSchulz/IntroducingUbuntuToNewUsers * [[AustralianTeam/Events/ITDiscoveryDayMawsonLakes2007]] * [[AustralianTeam/Projects/NotForProfitReport]] * [[AustralianTeam/Projects/NotForProfitDocumentation]] * BackupOfPackageUserData * PaulSchulz/SouthAustralianParliament * UbuntuBooks - Maintain 'English Books' section, including 'Not yet published' books. * [[AustralianTeam/Projects/UbuntuFriendlyComputerShops]] * PaulSchulz/AustralianMedia |
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| Web: http://connectingup.cisa.asn.au | == Past == |
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| The South Australian State Government runs a conference for people involved in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in the Not-for-profit and Community sector. The program emphasises the management and administration of ICT resources in these organisations. | * [[ATAOverEthernet]] * HardwareTestingCatalog * [[AustralianTeam/Projects/UbuntuFriendlyNotebooks]] * PaulSchulz/MiscellaniousHardware * PaulSchulz/WebcamConfiguration * PaulSchulz/ComputerTraining * PaulSchulz/CommunityContacts * [[PaulSchulz/LDAPAuthenticationNotes]] * PaulSchulz/DapperPressReleases * [[PaulSchulz/USBControlledAC]] * PaulSchulz/ConnectingUp06 = A Brief Introduction (to me) = Paul works for Quantum, in Adelaide, South Australia as the System Administrator for the Adelaide Office. |
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| The program of speakers includes: | He was resently employed as a System Adminstrator and Perl Programmer. Paul has also worked on embedded Linux systems for a Crane Safety Systems. In past lives he has worked with large SQL databases (education), been a Unix/Linux System Administrator (defence), and developed network managment software (startup). Oh, yeah and he also studied Physics and Mathematics at the University of Adelaide. |
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| * Hon Jay Weatherill, SA Minister for Families and Communities – The SA Government’s role in ICT in the delivery of community services * Nicola Thompson, General Manager, ICT Hub, London * Joe Baker, Executive Director, Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN www.nten.org ), US * David Barnard, Executive Director, South African Non-Government Organisations Network (SANGONet) www.sangonet.org.za * Dr Simon Davey, Managing Director, Omega Alpha Limited (www.omega-alpha.com), Managing Associate, preponderate network (www.preponderate.net). * Amith Nagarajan, CEO, Aptify Corporation, US. |
He is also involved in LinuxSA (The South Australian Linux User Group, [[http://www.linuxsa.org.au]]) and Air-Stream (Adelaide Community Wireless Network, [[http://www.air-stream.org.au]]). He has given presentations on various topics of personal interest, ranging from distributed computing, embedded Linux and 'git'. |
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| "(I wonder if Mark Shuttleworth knows David Bernard?)" | Paul maintains a community news site ([[http://www.mawsonlakes.org|MawsonLakes.Org ]]) and is in the habit of passing out Ubuntu CD's whenever he can. |
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| This is an ideal opportunty to promote Ubuntu and other related projects: | = Immediate Plan for Ubuntu Involvement = |
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| * Ubuntu * Software Freedom Day - September * Linux Australia |
* Continue my contributions on the AustralianTeam, bringing Ubuntu to the Austalian community. * Work on Bug #1 * Help out where I can. |
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| ==== Current actions ==== * [Done] Register for confernce and book booth. * [Done] Requested 100 CDROMs from ShipIT. Not sure if they'll get here in time though. * Seeking sponsorship from Linux Australia sponsorship for booth ($550) and attendance($220). * Discuss at AustraliaTeam meeting. * Contact other FLOSS minded people who may be going, to let them know we'll be there. * Prepare display material. |
= Contributions = == Linux Australia == |
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| === Observations === * This is an annual conference, and I only thought of going quite late. It would be good to think about what can be done for future years, and start planning. eg. Contacting the organisers about getting a speaker from Ubuntu/Canonical or Lunux Australia and the LUG's |
* Organised Software Freedom Day Event - [[http://sfs.mawsonlakes.org|Software Freedom Showcase]], Mawson Lakes Adelaide, September 2006 * Linux Australia Representative at [[http:connectingup.cisa.asn.au|ConnectingUp06]] Conference, Adelaide, May 2006 * Organised Embedded Miniconf (1/2 day) at Linux.Conf.Au 2006 * Organising Committee Member (Helper/Volunteer wrangler) for Linux.Conf.Au 2004 (Adelaide) |
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| === Other Suggestions === * Have a visitors book at the booth. * Blog the event - particularly if you can do it live. * (Put your thoughts here!) = A Brief Introduction = Currently, Paul works on Linux systems for the Adelaide company, Robway Crane Safety Systems. In past lives he has worked with large SQL databases (education), been a Unix/Linux System Administrator(defence), and developed network software(startup). Oh, yeah and he also studied Physics and Mathematics at the University of Adelaide. He is also involved in LinuxSA (The South Australian Linux User Group, http://www.linuxsa.org.au) and has given presentations on topics of personal interest, ranging from distributed computing, embedded Linux and 'git'. He enjoys having a local public library that he can walk to, although he has to bring his own software as they are yet to appriciate the benefits of Free ad Open Source. Email: paul at mawsonlakes.org Website: http://www.mawsonlakes.org Paul maintains a community news site and is in the habit of passing out Ubuntu and TheOpenCD CD's whenever he can. He is also working on Linux 2.6.x support for Compulab's ARMCore-GX (system on a board). This embedded system uses the Intel's XScale PXA255 processor. Cross platform development is done on both Intel i686 and PowerPC (Mac Mini) platforms (thanks to Ubuntu!) = Some Open Source Contributions = |
== Open Source == |
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| http://maitri.ubuntu.com/theopencd/wiki/index.php/CD_cover_art | http://wiki.theopencd.org/CD_cover_art * mdbtools - Suggestions, with patch, on how to make data extraction easier for migrating data from MS-Access to PostgreSQL. * Minor patch (typo) to Linux 2.6.x Kernel (ARM header files) [[http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.16.y.git;a=commit;h=d1972efaf24e56c06b43c40c364f9377763c2e13|details]] |
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| * fdclock - Found 'background' bug. Reported it, with patch to package and upstream maintainer. Added it as a project to LaunchPad. = My Todo's = |
= My Todos = |
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| * Add name to next Council agenda | |
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| * Describe what I would like to be involved in. * Signup as a maintainer |
* [Done] Add name to Council agenda * First appearance - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/CC_2006-05-30 * Sign up as a maintainer = Other Ideas = * Ubuntu Installfest in School Holidays with Dapper. * Contact South Australian Education Department about distributing Dapper. * Building local community support and infrustructure. * Contact CISA re. making Ubuntu available for Not-for-profit groups. ---- Related pages: <<FullSearch>> |
Profile
Launchpad |
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Location |
Mawson Lakes, Adelaide, South Australia |
URL |
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CST +0930 |
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IRC |
pschulz01 |
Teams |
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Frapper |
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PGP |
FE07 0E0F - Statistics |
Amateur Radio Op. |
VK5FPAW |
Note: This page needs a vacuum.
People to whom I owe Beers/Pizza/Yiros
- persia - Help with REVU and packaging questions.
LukeYelavich ('TheMuso') - help with a whole bunch of packaging questions.
- ??? - The person(?) who got cups/gnome to autodetect Brother network printers.
- jmitch - help with 'keyboard' accessability issue (My keys don't work!)
bimbari - system -> prefs -> sound, System Beep
- greebo - Software Freedom Day ideas and promotional material
- lucychilli - all round great person
- siccness - assistance with 'WebDAV' configuation.
- foutrelis - assistance with restoring corrupted 'initramfs'
People to whom I did ows Beers/Pizza/Yiros, and have now paid up
- Hobbsee - help with 'keyboard' accessability issue (My keys don't work!) - Debt paid in full with pub lunch in Adelaide.
Projects
The following links are to Wiki pages that I have created, have contributed to, or are currently collaborating on.
Currently
UbuntuBooks - Maintain 'English Books' section, including 'Not yet published' books.
Past
A Brief Introduction (to me)
Paul works for Quantum, in Adelaide, South Australia as the System Administrator for the Adelaide Office.
He was resently employed as a System Adminstrator and Perl Programmer. Paul has also worked on embedded Linux systems for a Crane Safety Systems. In past lives he has worked with large SQL databases (education), been a Unix/Linux System Administrator (defence), and developed network managment software (startup). Oh, yeah and he also studied Physics and Mathematics at the University of Adelaide.
He is also involved in LinuxSA (The South Australian Linux User Group, http://www.linuxsa.org.au) and Air-Stream (Adelaide Community Wireless Network, http://www.air-stream.org.au). He has given presentations on various topics of personal interest, ranging from distributed computing, embedded Linux and 'git'.
Paul maintains a community news site (MawsonLakes.Org) and is in the habit of passing out Ubuntu CD's whenever he can.
Immediate Plan for Ubuntu Involvement
Continue my contributions on the AustralianTeam, bringing Ubuntu to the Austalian community.
- Work on Bug #1
- Help out where I can.
Contributions
Linux Australia
Organised Software Freedom Day Event - Software Freedom Showcase, Mawson Lakes Adelaide, September 2006
Linux Australia Representative at ConnectingUp06 Conference, Adelaide, May 2006
- Organised Embedded Miniconf (1/2 day) at Linux.Conf.Au 2006
- Organising Committee Member (Helper/Volunteer wrangler) for Linux.Conf.Au 2004 (Adelaide)
Open Source
- Created CD Art for TheOpenCD 3.0
- mdbtools - Suggestions, with patch, on how to make data extraction easier for migrating data from MS-Access to PostgreSQL.
Minor patch (typo) to Linux 2.6.x Kernel (ARM header files) details
My Todos
- [Done] Sign 'Code of Contact'
- [Done] Describe some of the things I am currently involved in.
- [Done] Add name to Council agenda
First appearance - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/CC_2006-05-30
- Sign up as a maintainer
Other Ideas
- Ubuntu Installfest in School Holidays with Dapper.
- Contact South Australian Education Department about distributing Dapper.
- Building local community support and infrustructure.
- Contact CISA re. making Ubuntu available for Not-for-profit groups.
Related pages:
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