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I'm Jacob Peddicord, a developer and Ubuntu user. [[Include(OhioTeam/SubpageHeader3)]]

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|| '''Forums''': || [http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=90021 jacobmp92] ||
|| '''IRC''': || '''Jacob''' on ''irc.freenode.net'' ||
|| '''IRC''' (alternate): || '''jacobmp92''' on ''irc.freenode.net'' ||
|| '''Email''': || [[MailTo([email protected])]] ||

== Me ==

I'm Jacob Peddicord, a web developer and Ubuntu user. To the surprise of many, I am 15 years old.
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I especially love Python. I especially love Python, though I'm having trouble finding out where I can actually use it.
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[https://launchpad.net/~jacobmp92 Launchpad]
[http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=90021 Forums]		 I started venturing into Linux back in early 2005. I had downloaded Ubuntu 5.04 because I had always heard many great things about it. However, it refused to install from a DVD drive, and as a result, I tried SuSE. Fast forward to May 2006: Dapper was becoming more and more popular, and I installed it and never went back to any other distribution. I haven't booted Windows in nearly a year (on my PC) and I have given out around 20 copies of Ubuntu since, and have personally installed around 10 on others' machines.

||<tablestyle="float:right;font-size:0.7em;width:300px;background:#ffe;margin:10px;padding:10px;">attachment:jacob_feisty_panera.png||
||I rarely post photos on the Internet... but here you are. I'm on the left, talking to [:PWill:Paul Williams] (right) and [:DanBuch:Dan Buch] (standing) at the [:OhioTeam/FeistyParty:Ohio Feisty party at Panera].||
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   *Writing Drupal modules for the Ohio LoCo site to enable a callback support system   *Trying to keep the email robots from breaking loose and wreaking havoc
  *Answering callback requests over-the-phone
 *I wrote the [https://launchpad.net/loco-drupal-support LoCo Support System] for Drupal
  *Originally called "the f2f project," I started working on this in April 2007.
  *Finalized for production use on June 1, it ran only on the off-site [http://ohio.ubuntu-us.org Ohio server].
  *Less than a week later on June 7, I published the code on Launchpad under the GPL by popular demand.

== FOSS Contributions (not necessarily Ubuntu) ==
 *I blog on [http://fosswire.com FOSSwire], which has become relatively popular in recent months, along with [http://peter.upfold.org.uk/ Peter Upfold]. Our host probably wants to kill us for using more than 30% of the server daily.
 *Not working for Microsoft (a contribution in itself) ;)
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 *LoCoTemplates (I added a Drupal 5 theme)  *LoCoTemplates (added a Drupal 5 theme, now obsolete with the new design)
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 *Releasing some LoCo website tools this year (ex. a preconfigured Drupal installation with themes and modules already installed)
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== My Website ==
 *http://codechunk.net - an Ubuntu / generic development blog

== Subpages ==
[[Navigation(children,1)]]		 == My Websites ==
 *http://codechunk.net - a generic development blog for my projects
 *http://jacob.peddicord.net - redirects to the above, but hey, you gotta have a website with your name, right? ;)
 *http://evura.com - woah, is that a web host?

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Launchpad:

[https://launchpad.net/~jacobmp92 jacobmp92]

Forums:

[http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=90021 jacobmp92]

IRC:

Jacob on irc.freenode.net

IRC (alternate):

jacobmp92 on irc.freenode.net

Email:

MailTo([email protected])

Me

I'm Jacob Peddicord, a web developer and Ubuntu user. To the surprise of many, I am 15 years old.

I'm a student/programmer. I know PHP/MySQL, Python, C++, HTML/CSS, and Javascript/AJAX technologies, to name a few. I especially love Python, though I'm having trouble finding out where I can actually use it.

I started venturing into Linux back in early 2005. I had downloaded Ubuntu 5.04 because I had always heard many great things about it. However, it refused to install from a DVD drive, and as a result, I tried SuSE. Fast forward to May 2006: Dapper was becoming more and more popular, and I installed it and never went back to any other distribution. I haven't booted Windows in nearly a year (on my PC) and I have given out around 20 copies of Ubuntu since, and have personally installed around 10 on others' machines.

attachment:jacob_feisty_panera.png

I rarely post photos on the Internet... but here you are. I'm on the left, talking to [:PWill:Paul Williams] (right) and [:DanBuch:Dan Buch] (standing) at the [:OhioTeam/FeistyParty:Ohio Feisty party at Panera].

Contributions to Ubuntu

  • Bug triaging; I try to do this whenever I have some free time
  • Forums:

  • Helping out with the Ohio LoCo team:

    • Operating #ubuntu-ohio on irc.freenode.net

    • Maintaining http://ohio.ubuntu-us.org

    • Trying to keep the email robots from breaking loose and wreaking havoc
    • Answering callback requests over-the-phone

  • I wrote the [https://launchpad.net/loco-drupal-support LoCo Support System] for Drupal

    • Originally called "the f2f project," I started working on this in April 2007.

    • Finalized for production use on June 1, it ran only on the off-site [http://ohio.ubuntu-us.org Ohio server].

    • Less than a week later on June 7, I published the code on Launchpad under the GPL by popular demand.

FOSS Contributions (not necessarily Ubuntu)

  • I blog on [http://fosswire.com FOSSwire], which has become relatively popular in recent months, along with [http://peter.upfold.org.uk/ Peter Upfold]. Our host probably wants to kill us for using more than 30% of the server daily.

  • Not working for Microsoft (a contribution in itself) Wink ;)

Team Memberships

Edited Wiki Pages

Future Plans

  • Apply for Ubuntu Membership

  • Release some programming projects as packages and get them in the Universe Smile :)

  • Go to Ohio Linux Fest
  • Continue advocating Ubuntu

  • Releasing some LoCo website tools this year (ex. a preconfigured Drupal installation with themes and modules already installed)

My Websites

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