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

• [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

  • [https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Beginners/Team Wiki homepage]

• [http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=216 Unanswered Posts Team]

  • IRC Team Channel: #ubuntuforums-unanswered on irc.freenode.net

  • [:UnansweredPostsTeam: Wiki homepage]

  • [https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuforums-unanswered Launchpad]

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]

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

• [https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab Fstab] - complete rewrite.

• [https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToRemoveWindows HowToRemoveWindows] - complete rewrite.

• [https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NetworkAdmin NetworkAdmin] - almost complete rewrite.

• [https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MountingWindowsPartitions/ThirdPartyNTFS3G MountingWindowsPartitions/ThirdPartyNTFS3G] - largely rewritten, and updated for Gutsy and Hardy.

• [https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MoveMountpointHowto MoveMountpointHowto] - largely rewritten and expanded.

• [https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MountingWindowsPartitions Mounting Windows Partitions] - 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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