Ubuntu Wiki

About Me

I'm starcraft.man on the Ubuntu forums, not much to say on it. I'm a man. I play starcraft. starcraft.man. Nothing deep or philosophic. I actually just created it from the first thing that popped into my head after my first few preferred usernames were taken. I bet that put your mind at ease.

I live in Quebec, Canada and I speak English and French fluently. Currently going to university as a Software Engineering student, full time this fall. A big obligation, but I'll still find time to be around to help where time permits, least a few hours a day as I can. I'm not a professionally trained IT person, mostly self taught up until this point. I have had over 10 years experience with Windows, actually started with DOS 6.0 and 95, but then was mostly gaming when I was young. Most of the knowledge came from fixing 98, 2k, XP and Vista. Got into Linux due to long term frustration with Windows, and refusal to be a Mac guy. I now live mostly happily ever after.

Not much else to say, I've helped at the Ubuntuforums for quite a while and know plenty of folks. Only serious blip was a year+ of inactivity I had, unfortunate, but all is well now and even during heavy study I should be able to maintain suitable activity.

As to hobbies, I've quite a few, apart from a bit of leisure writing and reading. My favourite is probably gardening, a relaxing hobby that I got introduced to by my father. Now have a fairly large patch of vegetables every year filled with tomatoes, cucumber, carrots, lettuce, and radish. On a related note, I'm a cook as well. Nothing fancy, not a big chef with personal recipes, just enough to cook nicer meals than what you buy packaged in a supermarket (though I suppose that isn't saying much considering). Not much of a sports person, though I do enjoy watching hockey during the winter and always root for the Habs (though I know they won't win the cup).

Note: I'm not a big email person, if you need to get to me quick, a PM on ubuntuforums is usually the fastest means or dropping into the IRC channel for beginners team.

Team Memberships

• Ubuntu Beginners Team - Full Member
  

  • Wiki Focus Group - Lead of the Team
    IRC Focus Group
    

  Unanswered Posts Team
  Ubuntu Documentation Contributor
  

  • Wiki-Administrator
    

  Ubuntu Quebec Loco
  Ubuntu Folding@home Team (#ubuntu-folding helper)

Contributions to the Ubuntu Community

Mentoring

As an experienced member of the Beginners Team, I've taken on a Padawan for integration and eventual membership in the beginners team. His wiki is listed, below, we get on well and I enjoy his enthusiasm and drive to learn independently. Almost makes me think he doesn't need a mentor, almost hehe.

Current Padawan:

Former Padawan:

• stlsaint - Moved to Bodhi_Zazen for more server oriented mentoring. Amicable parting, well I guess not really parting since we still in same team.

Support

• Ubuntu Forums as starcraft.man . I try to focus on those threads with 0 replies in the main support categories and beginner section. Providing support also helps me learn more each day, usually by forcing me to research things just outside my knowledge.

Forum Guides:

• Installation Guide for Ubuntu Was frustrated explaining installation every time, so I created my own guide including the information I deemed essential. I hope some people found it useful over the years, I should update it though most holds true just the same.
  Updated Installation Guide During my absence, was moved and updated. Thanks forest.
  TestDisk Guide - Was in response to a user, I could probably turn it into a guide with a few pictures. A project for the future.

Team Proposals

• See sandbox pages for any current proposals, they are:

  • starcraft.man/Sandbox
    starcraft.man/Sandbox/Secret

Wiki

Listed here only if significant contributions made. See page history and diff to see what I contributed.

• BackupYourSystem
  rsync
  SimpleBackupSuite
  BackupYourSystem/TAR
  DriveImaging
  IsoImage
  MountIso
  ManageDiscImages
  GnomeBaker

Beginners Team Pages:

• HomepageBTTemplate
  BeginnersTeam/FocusGroups/Wiki
  BeginnersTeam/FocusGroups/Padawan

Entertainment

Note: Making people laugh is a contribution if ya ask me :).

• Squirrel Week Announcement
  Testimonial
  Testimonial
  Testimonial
  

Future Plans & Projects

I'm currently working on a 4 year software engineering degree with an undeclared major. I imagine that will take some of my time, but I will always be able to find time for the wiki and forums, I find it oddly relaxing though some would find it more work.

In terms of contributing to Ubuntu, I will continue supporting people via the forums as well as editing documentation on the main wiki pages. I was thinking of updating my wiki guide, but at this time I am thinking of deferring that to the future. As it stands, most of it is still pertinent and it seems other things need my attention. I'd like to think sometime into my degree when I'm a more experience programmer I'll start contributing to a project on lp as best I can, but I can't make any promises.

Current Project & Goals

• Get more involved in loco by attending this year's Global Jam.
  Get Ubuntu Membership this year, if possible.
  More wiki projects.

Testimonials (Closed - BT Membership)

BodhiZazen - It is my pleasure to welcome starcraft.man back to the community. I have known starcraft for quite some time and found him wandering the VirtualBox forums one day [Long ago in a galaxy far far away ... ] =) . Starcraft is amazing and I think one of the few who writes how-to's longer then mine. Installation Guide for Ubuntu is a classic and many people have learned much from starcraft. Although he will never admit it, starcraft is an amazing teacher, both patient and willing to spend the time to give helpful and detailed answers. It is truly my pleasure to welcome him back from his vacation to real life and I fully support his membership both to the UBT and as an Ubuntu member.

Testimonials (Open - Ubuntu Membership - I'll apply eventually)

Silver Fox - I wasn't sure if I should write Starcraft.man a testimonial as it is likely he will be going for membership around the same time as me, especially since he had written me one. I have decided that I will do it anyway, as he really does deserve praise and it should not be stopped even if it looks like a case of "I'll rub your back, you rub mine". Starcraft.man is of a rare type that always seeks to help others whenever he can, no matter what the problem or how busy he is. He has a wealth of knowledge at his disposal that he demonstrates on a regular basis in #ubuntu-beginners-help. He also is active in other ways, noticeably through his contributions to the community wiki pages. He is more than just a screen name spouting out help to all comers, he is a person that I am glad to say has become a great friend of mine. I wish him all the best in his application for membership. Please consider his application favourably.

CategoryHomepage