About Me

Linux user since 2003, when in the 9th Grade I installed Mandrake 9.1 on an old Desktop. I have since moved between Fedora, Debian, Gentoo, and finally Ubuntu. I have been a recreational Programmer since 2004, Professionally since 2006. I have been working with Embedded Linux (ARM) since 2007, working with a debian derived OS.

Contact

• EMail: paultag@gmail.com

  IRC paultag on irc.freenode.net

  • #Ubuntu
  • #ubuntuforums-beginners
  • #defocus

  Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~paultag

Contributions to the Community

• Creator of Sabre (a Bluetooth plugin for amaroK) Designed and tested for Ubuntu. Found Here: http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=75746

• Creator of Qube (a CLI into libnotify) allowing Bash scripters to use the attractive notification daemon. Found Here: https://launchpad.net/~qube-stable

• Member of the Ubuntu Forum's Beginner's Team, where we take the time to walk new uses through their new Linux Desktop or Laptop.

• Part of the Mass LoCo team, although currently inactive, as I have been at school in Ohio.

• Local activist, getting friends and family to try and keep using Ubuntu, through support.
• Installed a set of two Linux servers, configured them to work with the Design and Technology center in our High School, controlling a domain of 14 Windows computers, loaded with Architecture software, as well as providing remote filesystem space through Samba. Then took a role as the System Administrator, and maintained them for 3 years.

Wiki Links

• Ubuntu Forums Beginners Team Page: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Beginners/

• My (Rough) Bash script walk through: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Beginners/BashScripting

Goals

• Become an active MOTU, and contribute new software to the Repository.
• Work on increasing Linux and GNU's footprint in the wider computer user environment.
• Continue to help and support new users, and to retain more of the user base that tries the Live CD.
• Create Open and Free software that benefits the Linux community as a whole.