Who am I?

My name is Andre Noel, born and living in Brazil. Graduated from Maringa State University with a BS in Computer Science in 2005. Married since 2005.

Web developer since 2002, working with PHP/MySQL/PostgreSQL, Web Standards, Tableless, Ajax, et al.

Been involved with Open Source since 2002, and more especifically with the Brazilian community since May 2006, thanks to incentive from OgMaciel. Started as a translator for the Brazilian Team and recently being appointed as one of the administrators of the team.

Web Presence

• Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/people/drenoel

• Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AndreNoel3

• Brazilian Wiki: http://wiki.ubuntubrasil.org/AndreNoel

Blog:

• http://drenoel.wordpress.com (pt_BR)

Involvement:

• Administrator of [https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-l10n-pt-br Ubuntu Brazilian Portuguese Translators] Team

• Member of [https://launchpad.net/people/edubuntu-br Edubuntu Brasil]

• Member of [https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-br-pr Ubuntu Brasil - PR]

• Member of [https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-br-planeta Ubuntu Brazilian Planet Team]

• Organizer of [http://wiki.ubuntubrasil.org/FestaDapperMaringa Maringa's Dapper Release Party]

History

I get involved with Ubuntu Community right before the Dapper Release, and I started to contribute with the Ubuntu Brazilian Portuguese Translators.

On June 2nd we (me more three friends) did the [http://wiki.ubuntubrasil.org/FestaDapperMaringa Maringa's Dapper Release Party], installing about 5 PC's, dristibuting 15 CDs and speaking to more than 50 people.

On July 6th I was accepted in the translators team, becoming one of the administrators some time later.

On August 17th, for my suprise, I've discovered that I was on the [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+topcontributors Top Contributors] of Ubuntu on the Translations Area.

Working on

• Maintaining [http://wiki.ubuntubrasil.org/EdgyPacotes EdgyPacotes] - a refference to the remaining packages to translate until the Edgy Release

• Translation of: [http://wiki.ubuntubrasil.org/LaunchpadFAQ Launchpad Faq]

• Translation of: [http://wiki.ubuntubrasil.org/FormatosProprietarios RestrictedFormats]

• Translation of: [http://wiki.ubuntubrasil.org/FormatosLivres FreeFormats]

Done

• Translation of: [http://wiki.ubuntubrasil.org/CodigoDeConduta Code of Conduct]

• Translation of: [http://wiki.ubuntubrasil.org/AptProxy apt-proxy how to]

• Translation of: [http://wiki.ubuntubrasil.org/CasosDeUso/UbuntuVsWindowsXp "Installing Ubuntu: A comparison of Ubuntu 6.06 and Windows XP"]

What next?

• Completely finish the translation effort to pt_BR by the end of 2006!
• Get more involved with the Rosetta team, so as to provide important feedback and help Rosetta become more userfriendly, specially for people performing administrative tasks within their groups!

Testimonials