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About Me

Hello, I'm Clive. I am active almost daily on Freenode IRC as 'clivejo'. I love all things open source and believe that knowledge should be shared, so that it can be built upon.

The OpenStreetMap is another of my main interests and I have put in quite considerable time improving the map.

Kubuntu

I have been a Ubuntu user for a very long time. At one time, I am ashamed to say, I was a Windoze user and was involved in beta testing Vista. The experience of the new User Account Control (UAC) really made me question my use of proprietary software (the freedom to do what I want with hardware I own).

So I installed, Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) and shortly after started to follow the development release very closely. Unfortunately, the new default user interface planned for Ubuntu was not to my liking and seemed to hinder my interactions with my computer, so I decided to install Kubuntu and have been using it ever since.

In May 2015, I had installed some development packages which I was testing at the time and was looking for help logging into Plasma, this is when I joined the #kubuntu-devel channel and found the community very friendly and helpful. Over the next few months I was encouraged to help package new KDE software and found that I was actually enjoyed learning and the "craic" with the other developers.

Future Goals

I would like to continue to develop skills in packaging KDE and other software. This includes learning about Continuous Integration (CI) and trying to automate the tedious aspects of packaging.

Kolab Groupware is another of my interests and I would like to package and distribute the Kolab server packages so it can be installed simply and easily on Ubuntu.

Testimonials

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Clive has made himself an essential member of the team very quickly. He's very tenacious in learning how to do new, difficult tasks, and seeks out new ones, such as packaging Kolab. What I love is that he's not asking for membership for the perks, but to better help out. -- valorie-zimmerman 2016-02-12 22:41:28

Clive has seemly came out from nowhere asking to help package to being one our top packagers working right with Scarlett and Phillip. He is very determined to help everywhere he can and learns very quickly. I would love for him to get membership - ~aaronhoneycutt 2018-01-06 05:56:36

Nice chap. Very dedicated to his Kubuntu work. -- apachelogger 2016-02-12 11:29:59

Clive is keen to help out with Kubuntu and has been helping with packaging for some time. The sign of confidence a membership will show in him will help him plunge forward to helping the project. - -- jr 2016-02-12 11:45:38

Clive is an essential member of the team. He is very ambitious and dedicated to learning new things. Lets get this membership done, so we can move forward to making him a dev! -- sgclark 2016-02-12 16:06:47 2016-02-12 16:06:47

I have noticed him in #kubuntu helping developers and in #kubuntu-devel helping out in packaging. -- marco-parillo 2016-02-12 17:43:14

Clive is a very active guy in #kubuntu-devel. He is also very perseverant in getting the job done correctly, which, in my opinion, is a good quality to have for a packager. -- oliviervdtoorn 2016-02-13 12:25:00

Clive is doing great work here at #kubuntu-devel, not only packaging but also testing and learning new stuff. He did a great progress in the last few months and now become very important person to whole Kubuntu project. -- soee 2016-02-13 14:40:00

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