sacater

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About me

Hi, I am Sam Cater, otherwise known as sacater or sacatermeister. I am 14 years old and live in Ipswich, Suffolk, GB. I have signed the Code of Conduct with gpg and I am an ubuntero.

Launchpad

http://launchpad.net/~sacater

IRC

sacater [irc.freenode.net] My channel is #sacater

Email

sacater@gmail.com

Jabber

sacater@gajim.org

MSN

sacater@btopenworld.com

Blog

http://sacater.codewiz.net

I was first introduced to Ubuntu/Linux by welp(Peter Weller), a gentoo developer. He had ordered some free CD's and let me have one or two. I couldn't get things to work very well at first, but things soon became clear and easy. Since then I have used nothing but Ubuntu, and completely removed windows from my machine. I have been using it for about a year now, and find it the best distro out there, because of its community. I have been helping in the community properly for about 4 months.

Here are one or two factsa about me...

  • Ubuntu Ubuntu user since the Breezy Badger release BR Ubuntu Ubuntu beta testing BR Ubuntu Contribute in #ubuntu BR Ubuntu Ubuntu Bugsquad (triage + report bugs) BR Ubuntu Launchpad Beta tester BR Ubuntu Maintainer of a Universe package (Tea: text editor) BR Ubuntu Working for MOTU status under LaserJock (Jordan Mantha) BR

My plans and ideas for Ubuntu in the near and far future

At the moment I only have three plans for Ubuntu, and I am already working on one.

My active plan is to bridge gaps between other Linux distrobutions. Some people see Ubuntu as a 'light hearted and cuddly-friendly' Linux distro. IT IS NOT, it is just more user-friendly than others, Gentoo seem to do this a bit, and I wish for everyone to understand that no distro is better than another, just different. I myself like the need of technical know-how to use Gentoo well, while I also love Ubuntu for the warm-hearted community feel Big Grin :)

My second plan is to make windows integration easier. Whilst I know there is such a technique for bookmarks, being released in Feisty, the transfer is of course not perfect, and the ability to import other things should be created. Many people fear switching to Linux, because of losing all their windows settings, favourites, bookmarks, documents, etc. I want to get rid of this, so the switch will be so much easier

My third plan is to hopefully make dual-booting systems easier to use and understand, there have been numerous bug reports and rumors that installing Ubuntu on a second HDD or partition, affects their windows installation, expecially if the windows drive is mounted, and an Ubuntu upgrade is made.

My contributions to Ubuntu

I have contributed to ubuntu in a few different ways. I spend all my spare time in #ubuntu and #ubuntu-motu. Both helping out and learning whenever and wherever I can. I even got +u status on freenode.net, as I am eager to help in so many different aspects of Ubuntu. I always follow the Code of Conduct when I help others.

A good chunk of my work is answering questions in launchpad, I always try to answer questions as fully as possible, its a good to see a star next to your answer :P

In the way of packaging, I have only made changes to one, which is the 'tea text editor'. For that package I added a new .desktop file, edited the changelog and control file, before building the sources, and presenting the debdiff to my universe sponsor, LaserJock(Jordan Mantha), who I believe uploaded it to the repositories. (I am more of a 'helping-out' person, than a packager at this point in time). Smile :) https://launchpad.net/~sacater/+packages

I also try and do my bit in Bug triaging and reporting.

Please Note: As I am 14 I have SATS this May, and could mean that I am a bit less active than normal due to revision. :|