About Me

Real name:...Rafael Sfair

Launchpad:..https://launchpad.net/people/sfair

website:........http://sfair.wordpress.com (pt_BR)

e-mail:............MailTo(rsfair AT gmail.com)

e-mail:............MailTo(rsfair AT feg.unesp.br)

Jabber ID:......sfair AT jabber.cz

OpenPGP:.....[http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xF0306039C473AA61 C473AA61]

irc nick:..........sfair on Freenode

where:............Curitiba / Brazil

pt_BR wiki:....http://wiki.ubuntu-br.org/RafaelSfair

What I Do

I'm brazilian, 22 y, PhD physics student that uses Ubuntu to find and explain structures on planetary rings (firt Saturn's F-Ring and now Uranus' rings).

What Ubuntu did for me

Since my master course, Ubuntu is my main OS, I use it to do my work, since writing numerical codes until run and analise data. It's a trustworthy platform and my work would be almost impossible to do another way. And I met incredible people that share some through Ubuntu Community, people that share same ideias and also watch Lost!!

What I did for Ubuntu

• I started my contrubution doing some translations with help of my friend OgMaciel, but now I'm not a so active contributor.

• I helped to create and organize the Brazilian Documetation Team and since then most of my job is a 'background' job. For example: with RafaelProenca I wrote the [http://wiki.ubuntu-br.org/TimeDeDocumentacao/GuiaWiki Guia Wiki] (wiki guide), a document that explains all the steps from creating a wiki account until good pratices when writing a documentation.

• I also wrote [http://wiki.ubuntu-br.org/TimeDeDocumentacao/GuiaWiki/AjudaNaEdicao?action=fullsearch&context=180&value=rafaelsfair&fullsearch=Text sereval wikipages] and the [http://wiki.ubuntu-br.org/CienciaNoUbuntu Ciencia No Ubuntu], a guide explaning how to install some scientific softwares.

What I do for Ubuntu

• I'm one of the administrator of the Ubuntu Brazilian Documentation team. I'm always trying to bring new people to help the team to grow (with quantity and quality).

• I'm an author on planets [http://planeta.ubuntu-br.org Ubuntu-BR] ([http://planeta.ubuntubrasil.org/author/43 my posts]) and [http://planeta.gnulinuxbrasil.org Gnu Linux Brasil]

• Document manager of the APTonCD project
• Help people to migrate from proprietary platafor to open source (even my thesis advisor!)

What I plan to do for Ubuntu

• Contribute to the growth of the documentation team
• Try to migrate even more machines at my university to open source systems
• Increase the divulgation of the Ubuntu and our work to make it always easier

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