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|| {{https://launchpad.net/@@/person}} Name || Doug McComber || || {{https://launchpad.net/@@/language}} Email || mccomber@fastmail.fm || || {{https://launchpad.net/favicon.ico}} Launchpad Profile || [[https://launchpad.net/~mccomber|Doug McComber]] || || {{https://launchpadlibrarian.net/9608570/ubuntu_emblem.png}} Currently testing || [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu| Lubuntu 12.10 PPC]] || |
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| I'm Phill (as if you couldn't guess) Age 43, UK Resident. I work as a relief manager for all the Pub's in the UK whereby the tenants are handing back the keys to the Breweries because they can't make it pay. My computer History .. When we did computer studies at school, we wrote out flow-charts & wrote our code onto a programming sheet to be input onto a 'mini-main-frame' - We got dot matrix output & a roll of punched tape. Learning Flow-Charting is a gr8 thing, as it allows me to break tasks down into 'bite-size' chunks. 1st Computer Atari 640XL, It taught me assembly language, along with machine code - For that I'm grateful. I had a Bulleting board running on that little 8 Bit machine, and even stuffed 256KB of RAM into it. - Yeah, go ahead, do the maths, we were inventive - it was paging memory, like expanded memory on the 1st PC's |
== About Me == Hi, I'm Phill, aged 50. I was born and live in the UK. When we did computer studies at school, we wrote out [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowchart|flow-charts]] and wrote our code onto a programming sheet to be input onto a 'mini-main-frame'. We got dot matrix print-out and a roll of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_tape|punched tape]]. Learning [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowchart|Flow-Charting]] is a great thing, as it allows you to break tasks down into 'bite-size' chunks. My first Computer was [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Atari_800XL_Plain_White.jpg/300px-Atari_800XL_Plain_White.jpg|Atari800XL]]. It taught me assembly language, along with machine code - for that I'm grateful. I had a Bulletin board running on that little 8 Bit machine, and even stuffed 256KB of RAM into it. On my [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Atari_800XL_Plain_White.jpg/300px-Atari_800XL_Plain_White.jpg|Atari800XL]], I was inspired to study the link between computer and humans with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking|StephenHawkin]] and how he could 'speak'; I got my little machine speaking using a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trackball|TrackBall]] using [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_LPC_Speech_Chips|SpeachSynthiserChips]] - do not forget that we had, at best [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_language|Assembly Language]] or [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_code|Machine Code]] if we wanted anything more advanced than [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC|BASIC]]. With all that has happened since, I have remained interested in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Accessibility_Initiative|accessibilty]] with and for computers. I have been up to senior support level in a UNIX environment, but that was quite a few years ago (Think Windows 3.0); so I've forgotten a lot. Coming back to the area, especially with what Ubuntu has achieved is like coming home. As for an explanation of my passion for ubuntu, I think one of my padawans summed it up so wonderfully in [[http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/12/06/why-it-matters/ Why it matters | Why it Matters]] What is Ubuntu? [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODQ4WiDsEBQ | Nelson Mandela on Ubuntu]] is one of the best explanations I've ever seen. == My Involvement with the Ubuntu Community == The areas that I involve myself with are listed below. If you ever have a query that you are unsure about, please do not hesitate to get in touch; I do not bite. Consider me as a friendly librarian. I may not know the answer immediately, but I can point you to where to find information (having a 3rd Dan black belt in google-fu is helpful). I am now a [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership |full ubuntu member]], something of which I am immensely proud of. === Bugs === As a member of the [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad|bug-squad]] I get reports back for ''standard'' bugs and ''Lubuntu'' specific ones, my activity can be found at [[https://launchpad.net/~phillw/+karma | Bugs]]. === Lubuntu === The baby of the family, designed for those 'older' computers that just cannot manage full on ubuntu. You can find details of it over at [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu|about lubuntu]]. I'm really keen on the project for what it can bring to computers that would otherwise be scrapped. I am a member of the Lubuntu mailing list, and am a firm supporter of their goals for giving us a fully updated version of ubuntu for 'older' computers. === QA and Testing === Yeah, the part of the release sequence that ensures every release of the entire ubuntu family gets better and better. Click on [[http://qa.ubuntu.com/| QA Team]] for more details. I am proud to be the [[https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa | lubuntu representative]] on there. If you are interested in helping the development cycle for testing and bug catching, we always need more people. Each flavour of the ubuntu family has their own QA / Testing team. We always need, on all flavours, more people to join and help. === Ubuntu Beginners Team === Beginners Team, they are a team who ''exist to enhance the initial experience of new Ubuntu users and to guide existing Ubuntu users to become part of the global Ubuntu community.'' Further details of UBT (as we shorten it to!) can be found at [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BeginnersTeam | Beginners Team]]. '''#ubuntu-beginners''' and '''#ubuntu-beginners-team''' are their IRC channels. If you do not have your IRC set up then you can click [[http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=ubuntu-beginners|UbuntuBeginners]] and [[http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=ubuntu-beginners-team|UbuntuBeginnersTeam]] to get onto those channels. === Ubuntu Forums Work === My post count should say it all. I do recall my first release day, when 9.10 came out and Grub2 was launched upon an unsuspecting audience. It was, to say the least, a busy time. I do keep active in the forum area, and do like an 'un-loved' posting that no one has replied to; it has taught me a lot (such as putting on all the software to programme up an android phone, amongst others). Signing up to [[http://ubuntuforums.org/index.php|Ubuntu Forum]] is something I would strongly recommend every one should do. When I reply to forum posts there is a very good chance that I will subscribe to the thread; this means when you answer, I get an email to let me know you have replied. === Accessibility === Often the forgotten part of computing, I've recently gotten a commercial site up to Level 3 accessibility (AAA); it is not too difficult (I lie), but I would recommend it to anyone who wants to write websites. The [[http://mgjuddltd.co.uk/|MGJuddLtd]] site is the one that I have taken to that level, which is in no way a small feat for a site full of engineering drawings! Again, if you are interested, please drop me a note and I would me more than happy to give guidance, my experience of getting there is at [[http://forum.phillw.net/viewforum.php?f=14|Accessibilty and the Internet]]. I am now back involved in accessibility for the Ubuntu family, more information can be found at their areas at [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Team | Accessibility]] and an extremely exiting AI project that has the promise to take accessibility to the next level [[http://www.thesii.org/ | SII]]. === Wiki === As a wiki admin person, whilst I mainly update the Lubuntu help pages over at [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/DocumentationHelp|LubuntuHelp]]. I am now also involved with updating pages for other teams. Along with helping update the general ubuntu wiki area. Feel free to contact me if you have an issue which requires admin privileges to sort it, but do be aware you'd need a pretty darn good reason for me to use them. |
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| I've forgotten more than I knew - I used to be a good 'script kiddie' in linux and BASIC, with the knowledge gained from the atari to do XIO calls from a BASIC programme to machine routines (such as calling 'sort' in unix, instead of trying to write my own !!) | == Current Projects & Goals == I am fortunate that I have access to a 'real web-site' that I have written and can update for '''tutorial mode''' for people to see how it handles various queries in real life. |
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| Programmed in QBasic, which was a nice language - and got used to CDOS - where you could run 4 sessions on one computer. | === MySQL === As a further extension to my LAMP presentation, the commercial site I have written, [[http://mgjuddltd.co.uk/|MGJuddLtd]], also holds the ability to change into tutorial mode for those who want to learn how to efficiently search through MySQL databases. The introduction and tutorial is available at [[http://forum.phillw.net/viewforum.php?f=5|FullText]] this links through to the [[http://mgjuddltd.co.uk/|MGJuddLtd]] site to explain how the enquiries are built, executed and displayed. |
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| I've been upto 2nd level IT support in an UNIX environment - I recall being really shocked when 'X' 1st came out as the GUI for it !! | === The SII === |
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| My current interests are coding web-sites (LAMP) - I'm no graphic designer - just stubborn on writing 'tight' code. | Rather than put it here, head over to [[https://thesii.org | SII]] to learn more about what they doing in terms of AI. |
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| I'm on nodding terms with PHP (You could live to be 200 and not fully understand the power of PHP) I'm okay with MySQL, as when I was on 2nd level support we had, even back in the olden days, dbases of 50,000,000 records that needed looking after - We used an interface called uniVerse, but could drop down to the pure SQL prompt. 4 dimensional arrays took a bit of getting used to !! I write my XHTML code to STRICT, by hand using BlueFish on my Ubuntu operating system. I am interested in rule508 compliance and also the regulations for the UK. I am active on the Ubuntu forum, helping out where I can (As one of the members on CodeCall stated -- it IS really like trying to herd cats!!) And an admin on VPOLink (http://vpolink.com) forum, which is a general forum, upon which I have a tech area, which is where my HowTo's live (I have a writing style that doesn't lend them to official Wiki Pages - To Formal for my style of 'us' and 'we') I get onto CodeCall (http://codecall.net) when I can (Usually when I'm stuck with a coding problem !) I've enjoyed getting my teeth into a function of MySQL, oft over looked - FULLTEXT, and have written a full set of tutorials on what I have learned along the way. I've sorta got it working like a google search would respond, including the use of + and - for those who want use it. I will try to help anyone with questions - When I cannot answer it myself, I'm [b]very[/b] good at google (I learned a lot writing the MySQL search stuff for my Dads' Site) My base site is http://phillw.net I'll get around to tidying it up some day. The site currently being built is mostly mirrored at http://fulltext.phillw.net (That's got some of the debug switched on, as it is part of a series of tutorials I wrote with help from the likes of bobince) Going into the test area that way, keeps the googlebot from following you round... Yup, I seem to have one living on the main site, bless it. The easiest way to email me is phillw@phillw.net I am on AIM/AOL Chat as phi11wuk (that is two number ones - not to lower case L's) I am on MSN as freindship.barnsley@gmail.com |
=== Future Plans & Projects === I want to spread the word on making websites accessible. My thoughts, trials and progress can be found at [[http://forum.phillw.net/viewforum.php?f=14|WebCodingForAccessibility]]. === Web_Hosting === [[http://thesii.org | SII]] are not for profit organistaion who have spare server space and bandwidth. If you are a student or a group from the ubuntu community, please do ask. We do have areas that can be shared for no cost and will not contain advertisements unlike some other so called "Free" sites, so please do get in touch. If you wish to use a domain name of your own, then a static IPv4 address (required for the server) is 12 GBP / year. |
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| Both those accounts need you to let me know you are, as they are set not to allow people on (I had a real bad time with spam IM's) | == Testimonials == ''If you wish to describe any of my contributions to the Ubuntu Community, please feel free to do so below. Thank You.'' |
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| For more about me - try my profile on the ubuntu forum !! | === General Testimonials === |
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| It has been known for me to be in IM with someone for 4+ hours if they're stuck doing partitioning etc. | === Testimonials for Beginner Team === I worked with Phill for some times now in the Lubuntu team. He is the main helper in the #lubuntu, always trying to answer and help people, never tired for searching a solution or a way to help. He done a fantastic job on the chan, I can't count the number of hours he spend on it, it's just huge. I strongly recommends him for the [[BeginnersTeam]] Membership. -- [[gilir]] |
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| Well, that's me !! | === Testimonials for Ubuntu Membership === I've had the extreme pleasure of working with Phil for some time now. He's very good at what he does, and is always willing to help and share his knowledge with others. He's been very helpful to me in many areas especially with the [[BeginnersTeam/FocusGroups/Wiki|BT Wiki FG]] among other things. His work with the Lubuntu Team has also been above and beyond awesome. He's always in #lubuntu ready to answer any questions concerning Lubuntu and is always available for a kind word. He's a great friend and an awesome contributor to the Ubuntu Community. He's got my full support for whatever he does, for [[BeginnersTeam]] Membership, and Ubuntu Membership as well. -- [[zkriesse]] |
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| Regards, | Phill and I have worked together for more than a year on various teams, including several Ubuntu beginners sites and more recently as moderators on the Ubuntu forums. He has helped extensively on Grub 2 related matters, making the extra effort to ensure users become familiar with the boot loader. I have seen the great lengths to which he will go to help users on the Ubuntu forums, including researching problems for others when the answer isn't readily apparent or available. Phill exemplifies the caring spirit of Ubuntu and I strongly and enthusiastically support his membership. -- Dave Stan [[drs305]] |
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| Phill. | I've had the pleasure of meeting and becoming friends with Phill, as we are both contributors of the [[BeginnersTeam]]. He is certainly hard-working and committed on his helping of the team. I think he is a great addition to any team he may wish to join. Surely, Phill is an awesome contributor and person; definitely worthy of Ubuntu membership. -- [[pedro3005]] [[BodhiZazen]] - I fully support Phill's application for Ubuntu membership. As you can see from this wiki page, Phill is very active in the community and I have interacted with Phill both in IRC and on the Ubuntu Forums. Phill is knowledgeable, helpful, and dedicated to the Ubuntu community . Phill is a very kind person who is always trying to help people in any way he can. I have got to see this first hand both on IRC and on the Ubuntu Forums. He is a very knowledgeable person who goes out of his way to share this knowledge. He is a true star who deserves nothing but praise. Please support his application favorably. -- [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Silver_Fox|Silver Fox]] I've worked with Phill in the Documentation Team for a number of months now, where his contributions have centred around wiki editing and Lubuntu. He's very active, extremely keen to learn, and has bags of enthusiasm; it's been a pleasure to have him around. I can strongly recommend him for Ubuntu membership. -- [[Philbull]] Phill has been very helpful to the others in the Ubuntu community. He just provided the Ubuntu Youth team some web hosting space on his server so that the Ubuntu Youth team could host a forum. This is just one of the several kind acts he has done. As such, I fully support his Ubuntu Membership -- [[https://edge.launchpad.net/~bilalakhtar|bilalakhtar]] [[forestpiskie]] I know Phill from both the forums and IRC - he's a very helpful and knowledgeable user - I wholeheartedly support his application for Ubuntu membership. |
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About Me
Hi, I'm Phill, aged 50. I was born and live in the UK.
When we did computer studies at school, we wrote out flow-charts and wrote our code onto a programming sheet to be input onto a 'mini-main-frame'. We got dot matrix print-out and a roll of punched tape. Learning Flow-Charting is a great thing, as it allows you to break tasks down into 'bite-size' chunks.
My first Computer was Atari800XL. It taught me assembly language, along with machine code - for that I'm grateful. I had a Bulletin board running on that little 8 Bit machine, and even stuffed 256KB of RAM into it.
On my Atari800XL, I was inspired to study the link between computer and humans with StephenHawkin and how he could 'speak'; I got my little machine speaking using a TrackBall using SpeachSynthiserChips - do not forget that we had, at best Assembly Language or Machine Code if we wanted anything more advanced than BASIC. With all that has happened since, I have remained interested in accessibilty with and for computers. I have been up to senior support level in a UNIX environment, but that was quite a few years ago (Think Windows 3.0); so I've forgotten a lot. Coming back to the area, especially with what Ubuntu has achieved is like coming home. As for an explanation of my passion for ubuntu, I think one of my padawans summed it up so wonderfully in Why it Matters
What is Ubuntu? Nelson Mandela on Ubuntu is one of the best explanations I've ever seen.
My Involvement with the Ubuntu Community
The areas that I involve myself with are listed below. If you ever have a query that you are unsure about, please do not hesitate to get in touch; I do not bite. Consider me as a friendly librarian. I may not know the answer immediately, but I can point you to where to find information (having a 3rd Dan black belt in google-fu is helpful). I am now a full ubuntu member, something of which I am immensely proud of.
Bugs
As a member of the bug-squad I get reports back for standard bugs and Lubuntu specific ones, my activity can be found at Bugs.
Lubuntu
The baby of the family, designed for those 'older' computers that just cannot manage full on ubuntu. You can find details of it over at about lubuntu. I'm really keen on the project for what it can bring to computers that would otherwise be scrapped. I am a member of the Lubuntu mailing list, and am a firm supporter of their goals for giving us a fully updated version of ubuntu for 'older' computers.
QA and Testing
Yeah, the part of the release sequence that ensures every release of the entire ubuntu family gets better and better. Click on QA Team for more details. I am proud to be the lubuntu representative on there. If you are interested in helping the development cycle for testing and bug catching, we always need more people. Each flavour of the ubuntu family has their own QA / Testing team. We always need, on all flavours, more people to join and help.
Ubuntu Beginners Team
Beginners Team, they are a team who exist to enhance the initial experience of new Ubuntu users and to guide existing Ubuntu users to become part of the global Ubuntu community. Further details of UBT (as we shorten it to!) can be found at Beginners Team. #ubuntu-beginners and #ubuntu-beginners-team are their IRC channels. If you do not have your IRC set up then you can click UbuntuBeginners and UbuntuBeginnersTeam to get onto those channels.
Ubuntu Forums Work
My post count should say it all. I do recall my first release day, when 9.10 came out and Grub2 was launched upon an unsuspecting audience. It was, to say the least, a busy time. I do keep active in the forum area, and do like an 'un-loved' posting that no one has replied to; it has taught me a lot (such as putting on all the software to programme up an android phone, amongst others). Signing up to Ubuntu Forum is something I would strongly recommend every one should do. When I reply to forum posts there is a very good chance that I will subscribe to the thread; this means when you answer, I get an email to let me know you have replied.
Accessibility
Often the forgotten part of computing, I've recently gotten a commercial site up to Level 3 accessibility (AAA); it is not too difficult (I lie), but I would recommend it to anyone who wants to write websites. The MGJuddLtd site is the one that I have taken to that level, which is in no way a small feat for a site full of engineering drawings! Again, if you are interested, please drop me a note and I would me more than happy to give guidance, my experience of getting there is at Accessibilty and the Internet. I am now back involved in accessibility for the Ubuntu family, more information can be found at their areas at Accessibility and an extremely exiting AI project that has the promise to take accessibility to the next level SII.
Wiki
As a wiki admin person, whilst I mainly update the Lubuntu help pages over at LubuntuHelp. I am now also involved with updating pages for other teams. Along with helping update the general ubuntu wiki area. Feel free to contact me if you have an issue which requires admin privileges to sort it, but do be aware you'd need a pretty darn good reason for me to use them.
Current Projects & Goals
I am fortunate that I have access to a 'real web-site' that I have written and can update for tutorial mode for people to see how it handles various queries in real life.
MySQL
As a further extension to my LAMP presentation, the commercial site I have written, MGJuddLtd, also holds the ability to change into tutorial mode for those who want to learn how to efficiently search through MySQL databases. The introduction and tutorial is available at FullText this links through to the MGJuddLtd site to explain how the enquiries are built, executed and displayed.
The SII
Rather than put it here, head over to SII to learn more about what they doing in terms of AI.
Future Plans & Projects
I want to spread the word on making websites accessible. My thoughts, trials and progress can be found at WebCodingForAccessibility.
Web_Hosting
SII are not for profit organistaion who have spare server space and bandwidth. If you are a student or a group from the ubuntu community, please do ask. We do have areas that can be shared for no cost and will not contain advertisements unlike some other so called "Free" sites, so please do get in touch. If you wish to use a domain name of your own, then a static IPv4 address (required for the server) is 12 GBP / year.
Testimonials
If you wish to describe any of my contributions to the Ubuntu Community, please feel free to do so below. Thank You.
General Testimonials
Testimonials for Beginner Team
I worked with Phill for some times now in the Lubuntu team. He is the main helper in the #lubuntu, always trying to answer and help people, never tired for searching a solution or a way to help. He done a fantastic job on the chan, I can't count the number of hours he spend on it, it's just huge. I strongly recommends him for the BeginnersTeam Membership. -- gilir
Testimonials for Ubuntu Membership
I've had the extreme pleasure of working with Phil for some time now. He's very good at what he does, and is always willing to help and share his knowledge with others. He's been very helpful to me in many areas especially with the BT Wiki FG among other things. His work with the Lubuntu Team has also been above and beyond awesome. He's always in #lubuntu ready to answer any questions concerning Lubuntu and is always available for a kind word. He's a great friend and an awesome contributor to the Ubuntu Community. He's got my full support for whatever he does, for BeginnersTeam Membership, and Ubuntu Membership as well. -- zkriesse
Phill and I have worked together for more than a year on various teams, including several Ubuntu beginners sites and more recently as moderators on the Ubuntu forums. He has helped extensively on Grub 2 related matters, making the extra effort to ensure users become familiar with the boot loader. I have seen the great lengths to which he will go to help users on the Ubuntu forums, including researching problems for others when the answer isn't readily apparent or available. Phill exemplifies the caring spirit of Ubuntu and I strongly and enthusiastically support his membership. -- Dave Stan drs305
I've had the pleasure of meeting and becoming friends with Phill, as we are both contributors of the BeginnersTeam. He is certainly hard-working and committed on his helping of the team. I think he is a great addition to any team he may wish to join. Surely, Phill is an awesome contributor and person; definitely worthy of Ubuntu membership. -- pedro3005
BodhiZazen - I fully support Phill's application for Ubuntu membership. As you can see from this wiki page, Phill is very active in the community and I have interacted with Phill both in IRC and on the Ubuntu Forums. Phill is knowledgeable, helpful, and dedicated to the Ubuntu community .
Phill is a very kind person who is always trying to help people in any way he can. I have got to see this first hand both on IRC and on the Ubuntu Forums. He is a very knowledgeable person who goes out of his way to share this knowledge. He is a true star who deserves nothing but praise. Please support his application favorably. -- Silver Fox
I've worked with Phill in the Documentation Team for a number of months now, where his contributions have centred around wiki editing and Lubuntu. He's very active, extremely keen to learn, and has bags of enthusiasm; it's been a pleasure to have him around. I can strongly recommend him for Ubuntu membership. -- Philbull
Phill has been very helpful to the others in the Ubuntu community. He just provided the Ubuntu Youth team some web hosting space on his server so that the Ubuntu Youth team could host a forum. This is just one of the several kind acts he has done. As such, I fully support his Ubuntu Membership -- bilalakhtar
forestpiskie I know Phill from both the forums and IRC - he's a very helpful and knowledgeable user - I wholeheartedly support his application for Ubuntu membership.
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