YvesJunqueira

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Rationale

This page is not a "personal marketing" piece. Ubuntu members applicants must document their contribution to Ubuntu and the FOSS comunity in order to prove they deserve such title.

My credentials :-)

Yves Junqueira Marques Teixeira (nictuku). Born in 02/1982

  • Work: Ministério do Desenvolvimento Social e Combate à Fome ("Ministry of Social Development") [http://www.mds.gov.br]

  • Education: Graduated in Relações Internacionais ("International Relations") at the Universidade de Brasília [http://www.unb.br]

  • Life: I love literature, movies, hacking and, most of all, I love Carla, my wife.

Contact

Community Presence

  • Founder and operator of #ubuntu-br at freenode

Packages

  • python-sysinfo
  • nwu-agent
  • nwu-server

None has entered Universe yet, but me and MarioMeyer are working hard on them. See [https://dev.ubuntubrasil.org/trac/nwu/wiki/DownloadNwu]

NWU

NWU is "Network wide updates for systems which use APT."

To fix bug #1, we need a good system for managing updates. Mr. Gates' company distributes freely its SUS and the newer WSUS, that manage updates for their products. RHN is an option as a paid service, but we need something GPL - and better.

I've been working hard in this project since december/2005. See:

I only code in my free time, but I think the project has walked a long path already. I'm sure it will prove itself useful and stable enough for dapper+1.

I've received a lot of support from other users and Ubuntu members and that makes me even more excited about nwu. Thank you very much.

The project is hosted by Ubuntu-Br LoCoTeam, thanks to MarioMeyer's sysadmin efforts.

Extra-Ubuntu Contributions

CACIC

CACIC is a project lead by the Brazilian Government to provide a system that collects and analyses informations from computers in the network. It reports data like hardware setup, installed software and asset management input informations.

I've volunteered for developing an agent for GNU/Linux, initially written in Perl. After that I've moved to Brasília and now I'm working in a Python version, as an official government project.

My ideas about Ubuntu

  • What I like
    • Based on Debian, the "universal operational system" :-).
    • Best Desktop I've ever experienced. It just works.
    • Very welcoming to new contributors.
      • The "ubuntero/ubuntu member/ubuntu developer" processes are very stimulating to applicants. And it's transparent.
    • Has a growing, helpful comunity
    • Short, predictable release cycle
    • It's a hype, but a good, deserved hype. Probably a long standing hype, too.
  • Worries
    • Some Debian Developers disagree about how Ubuntu is sending back the improvements.
    • Canonical business model is not clear to everybody.
      • It seems to have a big budget, but is the model sustainable?

Future contribution planning

  • Advocate for NWU spec approval for dapper+1
  • Work hard on the aforementioned packages and send them to Universe, then to Debian unstable, then to Ubuntu main, then to Ubuntu server (long time support).

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