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| Hi, may name is Jared Norris, funnily enough. I'm a member of the Ubuntu-AU team. I live in Brisbane and have an assortment of Ubuntu installs at home ranging from 8.04 through until 10.04. I do not work in the IT industry and have had no formal training. I am the very definition of a weekend hacker of all things Ubuntu. Essentially I have taught myself purely by learning to love Google and the Ubuntu Forums. I can generally always be found lurking on Freenode in the Ubuntu-AU channels - see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/IRC for details. |
Hi, my name is Jared Norris, I'm a member of the [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam|Ubuntu-AU team]]. I live in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane|Brisbane (Australia)]] and have an assortment of [[http://www.ubuntu.com|Ubuntu]] installs at home ranging from 8.04 through until 10.04 (soon to all be 10.04). I do not work in the IT industry and have had no formal training and as such I am the very definition of a weekend hacker of all things Ubuntu. Essentially I have taught myself purely by learning to love [[https://www.google.com.au|Google]], the [[http://ubuntuforums.org/|Ubuntu Forums]] and of course the wonderful [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/IRC|Ubuntu-AU team IRC channels]]. |
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|| Launchpad || https://launchpad.net/~jarednorris || || IRC || head_victim on [[http://freenode.net|irc.freenode.net]] in the [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/IRC|Ubuntu-AU IRC Channels]]|| || Email || jrnorris [at] gmail [dot] com || |
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| As I am not a very technical person I sometimes find it hard to contribute directly to the Ubuntu community as a whole. I am slowly starting to work my way into being constructive within the Ubuntu-AU team. I have volunteered to assist moderate the team's mailing list (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/MailingLists) as this is within my scope. | As I am not a very technical person I sometimes find it hard to contribute directly to the Ubuntu development community as a whole. I am slowly starting to work my way into being constructive within the Ubuntu-AU team to assist with local promotion of Ubuntu within Australia. As such my current contributions are: |
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| I have also organised a local, free "Ship It" type service to local Australian members to try and get Lucid Lynx LTS out into the population quicker for those people who do not have access to broadband connections (https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-au/2010-April/006033.html). | * assisting with mailing list moderation of the [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/MailingLists|Ubuntu-AU team mailing list]]. * organised a local, free [[https://shipit.ubuntu.com/|Ship It]] type service to local Australian members to try and get Lucid Lynx LTS out into the population quicker (Australia still has a large proportion of people without access to broadband connections (https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-au/2010-April/006033.html). * work towards maintaining, organising and expanding the [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam|Ubuntu-AU team Wiki]]. * spending time in the [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/IRC|Ubuntu-AU IRC Channels]] to assist with any questions. * working on [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/Projects/Gaming|Ubuntu-AU Gaming]] to try and promote Ubuntu within the gaming community. |
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| I hope to maintain an active presence in the Ubuntu-AU team and one day I might get a day off work to line up with one of the Brisbane meets (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/Brisbane). | I hope to maintain an active presence in the Ubuntu-AU team and one day I might get a day off work to line up with one of the [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/Brisbane|Brisbane meetings]]. |
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| I'm am currently working on setting up a home file/print/web/email server so this might allow me to contribute more on the technical side of things when I learn how to get all these working. | At every chance I get in my work and social webs I promote Ubuntu to anyone who will listen to try and do my part to combat [[https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1|bug #1]]. |
About Me
Hi, my name is Jared Norris, I'm a member of the Ubuntu-AU team. I live in Brisbane (Australia) and have an assortment of Ubuntu installs at home ranging from 8.04 through until 10.04 (soon to all be 10.04). I do not work in the IT industry and have had no formal training and as such I am the very definition of a weekend hacker of all things Ubuntu. Essentially I have taught myself purely by learning to love Google, the Ubuntu Forums and of course the wonderful Ubuntu-AU team IRC channels.
Contact Information
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IRC |
head_victim on irc.freenode.net in the Ubuntu-AU IRC Channels |
jrnorris [at] gmail [dot] com |
Contributions
As I am not a very technical person I sometimes find it hard to contribute directly to the Ubuntu development community as a whole. I am slowly starting to work my way into being constructive within the Ubuntu-AU team to assist with local promotion of Ubuntu within Australia. As such my current contributions are:
assisting with mailing list moderation of the Ubuntu-AU team mailing list.
organised a local, free Ship It type service to local Australian members to try and get Lucid Lynx LTS out into the population quicker (Australia still has a large proportion of people without access to broadband connections (https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-au/2010-April/006033.html).
work towards maintaining, organising and expanding the Ubuntu-AU team Wiki.
spending time in the Ubuntu-AU IRC Channels to assist with any questions.
working on Ubuntu-AU Gaming to try and promote Ubuntu within the gaming community.
Future Goals
I hope to maintain an active presence in the Ubuntu-AU team and one day I might get a day off work to line up with one of the Brisbane meetings.
At every chance I get in my work and social webs I promote Ubuntu to anyone who will listen to try and do my part to combat bug #1.
Testimonials
If you know me and have something nice to say, please leave a comment here.
JaredNorris (last edited 2017-03-12 09:42:56 by jarednorris)