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= Rocket2DMn = ||<tablestyle="float:right; font-size: 0.9em; width:40%; background:#F1F1ED; margin: 0 0 1em 1em;" style="padding:0.5em;">'''Contents'''[[BR]][[TableOfContents(2)]]||
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=== About ===
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|| Launchpad Profile || https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Rocket2DMn || || Launchpad Profile || https://launchpad.net/~rocket2dmn ||
|| [http://counter.li.org/ Linux User] || #448482 ||
|| [http://ubuntucounter.geekosophical.net/ Registered Ubuntu User] || #15126 ||
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I am a regular contributor to the Ubuntu Forums and am on the "'''Absolute Beginner's Team'''" and "'''Unanswered Posts Team'''". = Contributions to Ubuntu =
I am a regular contributor to the Ubuntu Forums and am on the "'''Absolute Beginners Team'''" and "'''Unanswered Posts Team'''" (see below).
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=== Teams === I am also trying to spend more time helping with bug reports on Launchpad, and have joined the [https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuforums-unanswered Ubuntu BugSquad] team and applied to the [https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-bugcontrol Ubuntu Bug Control] team.
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 *[http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=215 Absolute Beginner's Team] on the Ubuntu Forums
 *[http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=216 Unanswered Posts Team] on the Ubuntu Forums		 == UF Teams ==
 *[http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=215 Absolute Beginners Team]
  *IRC Team Channel: ''#ubuntuforums-beginners'' on ''irc.freenode.net''
  *IRC Help Channel: ''##beginners-help'' on ''irc.freenode.net''
 *[http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=216 Unanswered Posts Team]
  *IRC Team Channel: ''#ubuntuforums-unanswered'' on ''irc.freenode.net''
  *[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnansweredPostsTeam Wiki].
  *[https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuforums-unanswered Launchpad]
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You can visit us in IRC:
 *''#ubuntuforums-beginners'' on ''irc.freenode.net''
 *''#ubuntuforums-beginners'' on ''irc.freenode.net''		 == UF Work ==
Aside from my work with the UF teams and doing lots of general help on the forums, here are a couple of short guides I have written:
 *[http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=690760 HowTo: Reconfigure X with “dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg”] (Gutsy and older)
 *[http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=764633 HowTo: Compiz Fusion in Hardy on cards with "ati"/"radeon" open source drivers]
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=== Some useful links === == Wiki Work ==
For the Beginners Team, I maintain our [https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Beginners wiki area] and have rewritten and/or reorganized most of the team wiki pages, which is an ongoing process. I am also recruiting other team members to help with the community wiki, and some have already shown interest. I have recently applied to the [https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-doc-students Ubuntu Documentation Students] and [https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-wiki Ubuntu Wiki] teams in an effort to contribute more to the community docs.
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How To Reconfigure X with “dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg”: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=690760 Community Documentation
 * https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab - complete rewrite.
 * https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToRemoveWindows - complete rewrite.

= Future Plans =
I intend on getting more involved with FOSS programming once I am settled down in a few months. At that time, I hope to join some small projects, and maybe start one or two of my own. I am currently speaking with [https://launchpad.net/~kidders79 Stephen Kidney] about expanding a web based tracker that is used by the Unanswered Posts Team so that it can be used between different UF teams.

My "home" is really on the forums, but I will continue to work on Launchpad and the wiki.

= Personal Information and Experience =
Originally from northern California, I graduated from the [http://www.usc.edu/ University of Southern California] in Los Angeles with a BS in Computer Engineering and Computer Science. I have accepted a position as a software engineer with Lockheed Martin and will be moving to Pennsylvania later this year.

As a side job, I maintain my roommate's film production company's website, [http://www.mirrorimagesltd.com/ Mirror Images LTD].

My first experience with *nix came from using SunOS Solaris UNIX at my university beginning in 2004. I started with linux in 2006 and started using Ubuntu in 2007 after Feisty Fawn was released and there was a stable version of the ntfs-3g driver. I dual boot my laptop with Ubuntu and XP, my desktop with Ubuntu and Vista, and experiment with other linux distributions on a spare laptop.

While in school, I joined my school's [http://linux.usc.edu/ LUG], but unfortunately we only had a few meetings since there was not a lot of interest in group. I did, however, second the nomination of trading their RHEL mirror for an Ubuntu one, which they did. I have already subscribed to the mailing list for the [http://www.phillylinux.org/ Philadelphia LUG] since I will be living in the region.

I also host a Counter-Strike 1.6 game server and clan, you can find our website [http://www.freewebs.com/fucla here]. The server, which has been up since 2004, runs on a tower with CentOS 5.1 and is hosted out of my apartment in Los Angeles. My first experience with linux was when I switched the server from Windows XP to Fedora Core 5 in 2006.

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Ubuntu Forums Profile

http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=310232

Launchpad Profile

https://launchpad.net/~rocket2dmn

[http://counter.li.org/ Linux User]

#448482

[http://ubuntucounter.geekosophical.net/ Registered Ubuntu User]

#15126

Contributions to Ubuntu

I am a regular contributor to the Ubuntu Forums and am on the "Absolute Beginners Team" and "Unanswered Posts Team" (see below).

I am also trying to spend more time helping with bug reports on Launchpad, and have joined the [https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuforums-unanswered Ubuntu BugSquad] team and applied to the [https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-bugcontrol Ubuntu Bug Control] team.

UF Teams

UF Work

Aside from my work with the UF teams and doing lots of general help on the forums, here are a couple of short guides I have written:

Wiki Work

For the Beginners Team, I maintain our [https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Beginners wiki area] and have rewritten and/or reorganized most of the team wiki pages, which is an ongoing process. I am also recruiting other team members to help with the community wiki, and some have already shown interest. I have recently applied to the [https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-doc-students Ubuntu Documentation Students] and [https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-wiki Ubuntu Wiki] teams in an effort to contribute more to the community docs.

Community Documentation

Future Plans

I intend on getting more involved with FOSS programming once I am settled down in a few months. At that time, I hope to join some small projects, and maybe start one or two of my own. I am currently speaking with [https://launchpad.net/~kidders79 Stephen Kidney] about expanding a web based tracker that is used by the Unanswered Posts Team so that it can be used between different UF teams.

My "home" is really on the forums, but I will continue to work on Launchpad and the wiki.

Personal Information and Experience

Originally from northern California, I graduated from the [http://www.usc.edu/ University of Southern California] in Los Angeles with a BS in Computer Engineering and Computer Science. I have accepted a position as a software engineer with Lockheed Martin and will be moving to Pennsylvania later this year.

As a side job, I maintain my roommate's film production company's website, [http://www.mirrorimagesltd.com/ Mirror Images LTD].

My first experience with *nix came from using SunOS Solaris UNIX at my university beginning in 2004. I started with linux in 2006 and started using Ubuntu in 2007 after Feisty Fawn was released and there was a stable version of the ntfs-3g driver. I dual boot my laptop with Ubuntu and XP, my desktop with Ubuntu and Vista, and experiment with other linux distributions on a spare laptop.

While in school, I joined my school's [http://linux.usc.edu/ LUG], but unfortunately we only had a few meetings since there was not a lot of interest in group. I did, however, second the nomination of trading their RHEL mirror for an Ubuntu one, which they did. I have already subscribed to the mailing list for the [http://www.phillylinux.org/ Philadelphia LUG] since I will be living in the region.

I also host a Counter-Strike 1.6 game server and clan, you can find our website [http://www.freewebs.com/fucla here]. The server, which has been up since 2004, runs on a tower with CentOS 5.1 and is hosted out of my apartment in Los Angeles. My first experience with linux was when I switched the server from Windows XP to Fedora Core 5 in 2006.

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