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I'm Kendall Price, aubre on irc.

Summary of Contributions to Ubuntu

I have worked on helping get the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud project ready for release in Karmic by contributing bug reports, testing, writing documentation and helping others with their UEC issues. I have also submitted several items for Ubuntu Server Tips as well as helping people in the #ubuntu-server IRC channel.

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Complete Description of my Contributions to Ubuntu

I answered Dave Walker's call for Ubuntu Server Tips by submitting several tips. I tried to think about things that I personally had wanted to know, also with an eye towards what someone completely new to the server distribution would find helpful. The vast majority of tips I submitted have been accepted into the package that is in Karmic today.

My director at Auburn University asked me to make contact with Canonical regarding Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud. I submitted a request and John Pugh got in touch with me. I communicated with him and the #ubuntu-server room in IRC gathering information about UEC, what it could do and what hardware I needed to get started with it. I then requested a three-node setup from my director and he provided me with the hardware. We have a front-end and two node controllers. I set these machines up and worked with the instructions I had to get them going. When I ran into a problem I would file a bug and ask about it in IRC. Soon before the launch of Karmic I had a functioning system except that I could not get Storage Controller (akin to Amazon's EBS) working. I worked hard with the Server Team and the Eucalyptus team to get it working.

I decided to document the steps needed to get Storage Controller working for other people, so I wrote the initial UEC Storage Controller documentation, and revised it several times.

We use Ubuntu Server for a number of things on campus, and I was interested in evaluating Landscape as a means of managing our Ubuntu servers. John Pugh was also wanting me to test it, in particular the cloud functionality as it related to UEC. So I worked with the Landscape team to figure out what would be needed in order to get Landscape to work with a UEC cloud, and once we had it set up, I decided to document this process as well - Connecting UEC to Landscape.

I attended UDS-L remotely and contributed via IRC. I continue to test UEC and Landscape on a daily basis.

My Plans for Ubuntu in the Near and Far Future

I've really enjoyed working with Ubuntu and the Canonical/Ubuntu team. I intend to keep moving my responsible services to Ubuntu Server, and I intend to continue contributing to the Ubuntu Server and Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud projects. I'd like to see UEC incorporate even more AWS-style functionality, particularly autoscaling, VPN, and booting from Storage Controller volumes. I also intend to continue to help improve the Ubuntu Server documentation in any way possible.

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