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About Me

I am Marten de Vries, on the internet also known as 'commandoline'. I'm a Ubuntu user since 2007, although I had prior experience with Knoppix. I'm member of both the Ubuntu Nederland (in short Ubuntu NL) and the Ubuntu Fryslân loco. My hobbies are, next to the computer stuff described below, playing the alto horn and (digital) photography.

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Contributions

In short: I'm active in the Ubuntu NL community, and in two of its teams: the webteam, Mwanzo team.

• Forum and IRC support since +-2008 (on the Ubuntu NL forum and IRC channels)
• Active in the Mwanzo team since 2010, the Mwanzo team is kind of a combination of the international beginners team and the international classroom project, but then oriented at Dutch speaking Ubuntu users.

  • I gave a Python workshop there consisting about 13 sessions of about one hour. (Including one non-IRC session over a live video stream). Link (Dutch).

  • I'm one of the developers of Just For Learning, a Lernid-like web application the Mwanzo team started using recently for their online workshops.

• Attended two Ubuntu Fryslân meetings, the first was a Ubuntu Jam, the other was a loco team meeting.
  • I co-organized the second one of them (November 2011).

• Re-started the Ubuntu NL web team in May 2011, which maintains the content of the main website of Ubuntu NL and the Ubuntu NL community blog ('prikbord', Dutch).

Not Ubuntu related, but I'm also one of the core developers of the open source program OpenTeacher

Future Goals

I want to stay active in the Mwanzo team and web team. That's my first priority. For the Mwanzo team, I'm planning to give new workshops, and I'd also like to develop Just For Learning further. I also plan to promote Just For Learning outside Ubuntu NL, so other classroom(-like) projects can get advantage of it too. Of course, I plan to continue the other things I described above too. Next to that, I might want to become involved more in the international Ubuntu community. But that depends on how much time the other things take ;).

Testimonials

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