AndreNoel3

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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.

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History

I got involved with the Ubuntu Community right before the Dapper Release, as I started to contribute with the Ubuntu Brazilian Portuguese Translators team.

On June 2nd we (together with three other 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 to the Ubuntu Brazilian Portuguese Translators team based on my translation efforts, becoming one of the administrators for the group shortly after.

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

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What next?

  • Completely finish the translation effort to pt_BR by the end of 2006!
  • Involve more people in the translation process
  • Involve more people in the review translation process
  • 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!
  • Involve the people of my University/City in the Ubuntu Community (User Group)

  • Fix the [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/1 Bug #1] Big Grin :)

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