About Me

• Proud Franco-Ontarian (French speaking, Ontario citizen), living in Kingston, Ontario, Canada
• Born September 15th 1992
• Student
• Have been using Linux since December 2004 when I installed Debian onto a Pentium 2 I had just bought.
• Interests are Bagiping, Badminton, Computers and reading

My Goals

• Learn python (getting there)
• Become ubuntu member by 2007-02

• Become MOTU by 2007-06, focusing in KDE apps, and looking at [https://launchpad.net/~uncommonproglang MOTU Uncommon Programming Languages]

• Become more proficient with Inkscape / GIMP so that I can help out with some artwork
• Join Core in 2008

Contact Me

• IRC: ryanakca on irc.freenode.org

• EMail: MailTo(ryanakca AT kubuntu DOT org) (Please use gpg when possible if you are emailing me)

• GPG Key: [http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x4EBE56CB0EFECBED2A928D4F7BD15207E95EDDC9 0xE95EDDC9]

• [https://launchpad.net/~ryanakca Launchpad]

• [http://blog.ryanak.ca/ Blog]

Ubuntu Stuff

My contributions

• Bug [https://bugs.launchpad.net/~ryanakca/+reportedbugs reports] & triaging: [https://bugs.launchpad.net/~ryanakca/+assignedbugs assigned], [https://bugs.launchpad.net/~ryanakca/+subscribedbugs subscribed]

• [https://translations.launchpad.net/~ryanakca/+translations A bit of translation on Launchpad / Rosetta]

• [https://launchpad.net/people/ryanakca/+packages Packages]

• Answer questions here and there on the forums as well as in #kubuntu / #ubuntu

• Answer [https://answers.launchpad.net/~ryanakca/+tickets support requests]

• Organised the IdeaPool (It's now in alphabetical order, to my great awe).FootNote( IdeaPool: From what I've been told, the idea pool is looked at relatively frequently. Most things in canonical are either what Canonical Mark wants and can pay for or what volunteers are willing to do. However, the saying "talk is cheap" can also be applied to adding something to a wiki. If suggestions aren't backed up with action, it is unlikely that they will be implemented. If someone has a really good idea that canonical would love or if someone willing to implement something sees something great there, it might be implemented. (http://www.ubuntu.com/developers/bounties references IdeaPool))

• Helped found the Ubuntu Classroom along with hybrid, and I'm currently co-managingFootNote( If you have any ideas on future topics or ways we could improve the project, please contact me) it. -> ["Classroom"]

• Active teacher for Ubuntu ["Classroom"].

• Designed Kubuntu Edgy's [http://www.kubuntu.org/images/kubuntu-edgy-rc.png RC Release Image.]

• Spread the word about Kubuntu and Linux in general through out my school and family, installed Kubuntu for those who wanted to try it out, and check in every now and then to see if they were having any trouble.
• Ran the NUN meeting in #ubuntu-meeting on January 7th 2007
• Installed Kubuntu on a school computer
• Wrote a HOWTO on getting GPG to work with KMail

Current work

• Package SolSeek (an applet for kicker)

• Figure out the future of Ubuntu Classroom (we've run out of topics)
• Revive NUN
• Set up a "Master School" where people can look to for all upcoming classes... where motu-school, Classroom, etc could get together and have weekly or biweekly lessons. Have classes on how to write documentation, how to properly report and triage bugs, etc. for the advanced and the beginner.
• Set up a eGroupWare server for Kubuntu Devel
• Keep all this balanced with my school work.

Contributions in the near future

• Continue spreading the word
• Will hopefully have a demo of Edubuntu and/or kubuntu for the school techie sometime in the second semester of the 2006-2007 school year

• Help get KMail, GPG, gpg-agent and Pinentry-Qt working out of the box.FootNote( I'm not a 100% sure on how to get it to work ootb, but I'm more than willing to help out, once I've finished some things on my TODO list.)

The Future

• Continue to spread the word about Kubuntu
• Become more proficient with Inkscape / GIMP so that I can help out with some artwork
• Become more proficient in packaging
• Get proficient enough in python to do a bit of programming for Kubuntu (System Settings maybe?)
• Look into writing some more documentation (See if it's something that I find interesting)

Groups I'm part of

• Ubuntu Quality Assurance
• Ubuntu Canada Team
• Kubuntu Users
• New User Network (NUN)
• Kubuntu FR
• Contributors of packages for ubuntu universe
• Kubuntu testers

Groups I wish I was part of

• Ubuntu French Translators
• Kubuntu members
• MOTU

Bettering Kubuntu and Ubuntu

We could improve kubuntu bug triaging by having ubugtu paste new kubuntu bugs in #kubuntu-devel, #kubuntu-testing, or #kubuntu-bugs. That way people would see kubuntu bugs as they come in, instead of having to search for them on launchpad. It might help to re-add http://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-team/+packagebugs to the topic in #kubuntu-devel. It would also be an interesting idea to have a Kubuntu-QA team, that takes care of triaging kubuntu bugs, and bugs in KDE apps. They would have the same permissions on LP as Ubuntu-QA. I would love a glossy, polished kubuntu with as little bugs as possible, so that we might fix Ubuntu bug #1.

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