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== Testimonials ==

There have been some kind words posted in my Ubuntu forums thread:

{{https://launchpadlibrarian.net/9608570/ubuntu_emblem.png}} [[http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1751909 | My Ubuntu Membership Application]]

Or, if you wish, please do add some words here.


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About Me

I am retired and live in the UK. I do not have any formal IT training but worked in a scientific setting in my professional life. Perhaps this influences my approach to problem solving.

My first proper computer ran MS-DOS3 and had a hard drive whose capacity was measured in tens of MB. That's megabytes, not gigabytes! And thus I remained in reluctant thrall to a well-known series of proprietary operating systems for nearly 20 years, until I heard about this Linux thingy. I tried it; I was impressed. That was in early 2005. My early experience was mostly with Fedora and whatever Suse called itself in those days. It was while using Suse 9.3 that I had an epiphany: I wasn't dependant on proprietary products any more. It was a liberating moment.

I tried Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog) but I didn't know enough then to get the correct monitor resolution. Breezy Badger (5.10) convinced me to keep a close eye on Ubuntu and it was Dapper Drake (6.06) that made me primarily an Ubuntu user. I have used every version of Ubuntu since and, with the exception of Edgy Eft (6.10), each has been, for me, better than the previous one.

I strayed into Gentoo for about a year. The experience taught me a lot but my heart was not in constant re-compiling, and Ubuntu has been my primary OS for some time now.

My other interests include music (mostly classical), reading, philosophy and gardening.

Contact Info

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Ubuntu Contributions

My main contribution has been in the support sections of Ubuntu forums. I have been a member since June 2006, and have been particularly active in the last couple of years or so as increasing experience has given me the confidence that I can reliably help others. I derive great satisfaction from helping someone resolve a technical issue and if I can learn something in the process, then so much the better. It also gives me satisfaction when I am able to work as a team with some of my forum friends or with other knowledgeable members of the forum. Two or more members complementing each other and working towards a successful resolution of the OP's problem seems to me to be an excellent example of the Ubuntu spirit.

Ubuntu Philosophy and Ubuntu Forums – a Personal Thought

Ubuntu Forums promotes and encourages the principles of “Ubuntu” in its original African meaning through its code of conduct and gentle but firm moderation. A recent comment by someone I had helped in a forum thread gave me pause for thought and a realisation that helping others on the forum can have a more profound effect than simply fixing technical problems. This is the thread and the relevant post is #21. Thanking me for guiding him/her through a series of problems, the OP wrote, “Anyway, may God help you cause you help others. People like yourself convince me that there are still enough good people in the world.” I am not a conventionally religious person, but that comment moved me. And it called to mind Archbishop Desmond Tutu's words when explaining what the word Ubuntu means:

“... what you do affects the whole World. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity.”

Ubuntu Forums is an international forum. It enables members to reach out to and to show kindness and respect to people from other nations and cultures. This must be good. The effects go far beyond simply fixing computer problems. This is what I now try to keep in mind when contributing to support threads.

Goals and Aspirations

- To become more deeply involved than hitherto with testing and bug reporting in the development phase of future releases.

- To be more active in editing and contributing to the community documentation pages.

- To continue to spread awareness of Ubuntu in my local community.

Testimonials

There have been some kind words posted in my Ubuntu forums thread:

https://launchpadlibrarian.net/9608570/ubuntu_emblem.png My Ubuntu Membership Application

Or, if you wish, please do add some words here.

coffeecat (last edited 2021-04-25 08:44:54 by coffeecat)