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About Me

Name: Jamie Strandboge

Location: Western New York, USA

Age: 36

Occupation: Ubuntu Security Engineer

Launchpad page: https://launchpad.net/~jamie-strandboge/

I have been using free software since 1997. I started with RedHat and shortly thereafter moved to Debian. In addition to various patches and the like, my largest contribution to free software was creating and maintaining the Gnome2.2 backport for Debian Woody. In my consulting work, I supported Ubuntu, Debian, RedHat, CentOS, OpenBSD and pretty much any platform that used free software. My specific contributions to Ubuntu include:

• [:AuthClientConfig] (author)

• [:LDAPAuthentication] (contributor)

• [:UbuntuFirewall] (author)

• Created the following sponsored security updates: elinks, emacs21, fetchmail, libmodplug, lighttpd, mysql, t1lib, xfsdump, tk8.4, tk8.3, libpng, nagios-plugins, util-linux, flac, and poppler. Also contributed to openssl update. Since I now have upload rights to the security queues, you can see my other updates on [https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/ https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/].

• Fix for long-standing blank mysql root password LP bug [https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-dfsg-5.0/+bug/119075 #119075]

• Contributions to [https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-security/ubuntu-cve-tracker/master ubuntu-cve-tracker], the Security Team's CVE tracker

• Primary contributor for LAMP server test page (LP bug [https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/php5/+bug/135624 #135624])

• Contributions to libnss-ldap and libpam-ldap, particularly 258-1ubuntu1 and 184-2ubuntu1 (respectively)
• Fixes, additions, and new code to the Ubuntu Security Teams package-tests

• Bug maintenance in Launchpad (primarily focused on [https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-security ubuntu-security])

I am now employed by Canonical as an Ubuntu Security Engineer and am part of the [https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-server Ubuntu Server Team].

Contact

IRC: jdstrand@irc.freenode.org (#ubuntu-devel, #ubuntu-server, #ubuntu-motu)

E-mail: jamie@ubuntu.com