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About Me

Hi, my name is Jared Norris, I live in Brisbane (Australia) and have been using Ubuntu for some time now.

I started on Linux sometime early in 2003 with various friends trying to get me to run this distribution or that distribution. I ended up having a play around on Fedora with FC1 & FC2 for a while but felt like all I was doing was fixing things rather than enjoying the computer. The one of my friends heard about this new distribution called "Ubuntu" (which I now realise was the Warty release) and actually installed my own copy of Hoary mid 2005. I haven't looked back since, I have had brief forays into other distributions but always end back with Ubuntu. Now I have an assortment of Ubuntu installs at home ranging from 8.04 through to 10.10.

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

Contributions

As I am not into programming or coding to any extent 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) - we got over 50 CDs OUT!

• 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.

• I have recently started working on the translation projects on launchpad for English (Australia) projects just to help out where I can.

• Assisting with Lubuntu documentation

Future Goals

I hope to maintain an active presence in the Ubuntu-AU team and I'm slowly looking around to see what other projects I can invest some time into.

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

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