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| See https://launchpad.net/~elmo | See https://launchpad.net/~elmo for contact and other information. == Community Council 2009 == I've been involved in free software for over 13 years and a Debian developer for most of that time, starting out on the Debian m68k port. Within Debian, I lead the Debian FTP team for several years, including a from scratch rewrite of the archive infrastructure kit called 'dak'. I also lead or participated in the Debian new maintainer/accounts management, keyring and sysadmin teams for several years. (I'm no longer actively involved in any teams in Debian at this time.) I've been working at Canonical (and with Ubuntu) since the beginning, i.e. before they were called Canonical or Ubuntu. My involvement with Ubuntu (and Canonical) has changed over time. Before Ubuntu switched to Launchpad and Soyuz, I ran the Ubuntu archive using dak. What I've done since the beginning and what is nowadays my focus at Canonical is leading the IS team. IS is the team within Canonical responsible for all operational IT infrastructure within Canonical, including our data centres (which host the vast majority of Ubuntu's infrastructure), offices and technical organization of conferences (e.g. UDS). I've been on the community council since it's inception and have particularly enjoyed (retrospectively at least ;-) helping to resolve e.g. some of the early troubles around the Ubuntu Forums and seeing the Forums flourish and grow into having their own governance structure. My main interest in the community council is seeing that Ubuntu continues to grow in a healthy and sustainable fashion. My primary and overriding reason for my involvement in both Ubuntu and Canonical is my strongly held belief in free software and a desire to see it succeed and be as widely used (and usable) as possible. This was true 5 years ago, and is still true today. |
See https://launchpad.net/~elmo for contact and other information.
Community Council 2009
I've been involved in free software for over 13 years and a Debian developer for most of that time, starting out on the Debian m68k port. Within Debian, I lead the Debian FTP team for several years, including a from scratch rewrite of the archive infrastructure kit called 'dak'. I also lead or participated in the Debian new maintainer/accounts management, keyring and sysadmin teams for several years. (I'm no longer actively involved in any teams in Debian at this time.)
I've been working at Canonical (and with Ubuntu) since the beginning, i.e. before they were called Canonical or Ubuntu. My involvement with Ubuntu (and Canonical) has changed over time. Before Ubuntu switched to Launchpad and Soyuz, I ran the Ubuntu archive using dak.
What I've done since the beginning and what is nowadays my focus at Canonical is leading the IS team. IS is the team within Canonical responsible for all operational IT infrastructure within Canonical, including our data centres (which host the vast majority of Ubuntu's infrastructure), offices and technical organization of conferences (e.g. UDS).
I've been on the community council since it's inception and have particularly enjoyed (retrospectively at least 
helping to resolve e.g. some of the early troubles around the Ubuntu Forums and seeing the Forums flourish and grow into having their own governance structure. My main interest in the community council is seeing that Ubuntu continues to grow in a healthy and sustainable fashion.
My primary and overriding reason for my involvement in both Ubuntu and Canonical is my strongly held belief in free software and a desire to see it succeed and be as widely used (and usable) as possible. This was true 5 years ago, and is still true today.
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