# klynch ##master-page:Homepage Template #format wiki #language en ||{{http://www.ubuntu.com/sites/default/themes/ubuntu10/images/footer_logo.png}}<>|| || {{https://launchpad.net/@@/person}} Name || Keenan Paul Lynch || || {{https://launchpad.net/@@/language}} Email || keenan.lynch@gmail.com || || {{https://launchpad.net/favicon.ico}} Launchpad Profile || [[https://launchpad.net/~keenan-lynch]] || || {{https://launchpad.net/@@/language}} IRC ||klynch@Freenode || || {{https://launchpadlibrarian.net/9608570/ubuntu_emblem.png}} Currently Using || Natty 11.04 on desktop and netbook || || {{https://launchpadlibrarian.net/9608570/ubuntu_emblem.png}} Currently testing || Waiting for 11.10 || == About Me == Community, I am Keenan. I live in the great, although often cold, state of Minnesota. I have been using linux for the last two years and can gladly say that "there is no going back for me!" I believe ubuntu to be an important project in the software world, and fully support the growth of an open-source community. Prior to using linux I could be observed fighting with a popular proprietary operating system. Although I became quite versed in the inner-workings-so-to-say of that OS, I was unaware of the joy of open-source software and CLI until I starting using linux. I am able to get things done much quicker, and if not quicker then with a greater efficiency and usage of my systems' hardware. I look forward to participating in the ubuntu community and hope to contribute in someway to this open-source movement. == My Involvement in the ubuntu community == I have only recently joined the ubuntu community and will thus update this soon. === Launchpad === Launchpad looks very interesting and I am actively exploring the interface while trying to learn as much as I can about it. === LoCo === I can often be found on Minnesota LoCo channel. irc.freenode.net #ubuntu-us-mn == Current Projects and goals == I am currently learning Python along with more general linux usage. I am interested in programming and the general hacker culture as a whole. If the reader believes me to be referring to what the media considers a hacker, I would have you read a note from ESR on [[http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html|hackerdom]]. Don't know who ESR is? You have more reading to do: [[http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/|The Cathedral and the Bazaar]]. == Future Plans and Projects == After finishing Python, I would like to move onto C and then maybe, if I ever obtain the requisite knowledge, the holy grail of programming LISP. I also want to contribute with helping people new to linux and software in general. I seem to have a knack with explaining the sometimes un-explainable.