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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

If you know me and have something nice to say, please leave a comment here.

Jared has already been helping out with wiki stuff for Lubuntu along with on the IRC channel and mailing list. He has the patience, knowledge and willingness to help others and is a welcome addition to any team he may wish to join. phillw