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About Me

My screen name is so simple. No big deal.

I have decided to use, learn and contribute to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. I have installed and played around with red hat, suse, knoppix, debian, fedora and several earlier releases of ubuntu. I just did not get it. But now I totally get it.

I got so fed up with updates that I had no idea what, did I want it or not. And the interruptions when I needed to get work done.

Socially

I am a self taught computer user. My first computer was a Commodore 64 and I loved the bulletin boards. Of course I learn some DOS and AOL was super awesome.

Now that we have android Motorola Cliq phone, I am so amazed by the number of handheld gadgets it is replacing - music player and radio, compass, stopwatch, pedometer, heart rate monitor, exercise logs, yoga movies, calculator, camera, video maker and player, voice recorder, gps, congress, chat, newspaper feeds, shopping cart, scanner, fax, alarm clock, tv and weather and answering machine to name a few.

In addition, I like movies, music, quilting, art, and reading.

My exercise routine includes, yoga, resistance training, cardio, and swimming. I go 3x's per week.

Professionally

I am a Nurse educator and feel there is a place for open source in our profession. I intend to assist with that. Of course I need to learn more about it all and how this would be possible and useful.

I know two non-Ubuntu users which I promise to assist and support to transition to Ubuntu and join this community. Hope there will be others along the way of course. I have two family members I am working on to convert to Ubuntu. My son and my brother. My son - sad to say is an iPhone junky, and he already knows there is no alternative for iTunes. But I say the alternative is an android phone and Ubuntu.

Ubuntu Participation

I am new to Ubuntu and the Community. But I intend to participate as much as possible.

Beginners Team

I am not a member of the Beginners Team yet. Now that I have a mentor I just need to do some work around here and prove myself. I wish to join this team because I want to contribute to the Ubuntu Community in whatever way possible.

Ubuntu Forums

egossett – joined 9 Jan 2011. I feel I could be useful with the forums support, irc support when I learn more, wiki documentation and possibly testing.

I joined these Forum social groups 1. Ubuntu lovers 2. Compiz users 3. Gnome desktop users 4. Ubuntu newbie classroom

US Local Community Team

1. #Indiana Loco

2. #Chicago Loco

Internet Relay Chat

My registered IRC nickname is egossett. I am looking forward to getting to know the Ubuntu community members better through this medium. I am usually present in the following channels:

1. #ubuntuforums
2. #ubuntu-beginners
3. #ubuntu-beginners-help
4. #ubuntu-us

Linux User Group (LUG)

1. #Linuxchix http://www.linuxchix.org/about-linuxchix.html

Goals For The Future

1. Post in support sections of the ubuntu forums
2. Get Friends and Family trying Ubuntu
3. Become an Ubuntu Beginners Team member
4. Offer assistance on IRC

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