JohnDong

John Dong john.dong@gmail.com UbuntuForums user "jdong"

Short Facts

• I am a 16-year-old high school student
• I live in Michigan, USA
• I am of Chinese descent (Shenyang, China), and moved to the U.S.A when I was 6
• Prior to that, I also spent 2 years living in the UK (Bath)
• Linux has become an everyday part of my life.

UbuntuForums.org Administrator

• user jdong

• Contributed over 2400 posts on the forum, as one of the most active members on UbuntuForums

• Spend on average 4 hours a day on the forums, both moderating discussions and offering help to abandoned threads.

Ubuntu Backports Project Founder

• http://backports.ubuntuforums.org/

• More than 14GB's worth of repackaged/recompiled packages for Hoary and Warty (400 Packages was the last count)
• Extremely popular project, with over 70,000 file downloads daily and 8MB/s sustained traffic if uncapped. Over 24,000 unique IP's logged in a 7 day period.
• Easily tops 1000gb bandwidth per month.

• Community request driven, with its own forum at UbuntuForums.org

• Very very appreciated by other members of the UbuntuForums community

Participant of Linux-Supporting Projects

• http://sourceforge.net/projects/adambots-live

• http://sourceforge.net/projects/ifi-picloader Linux support projects for USFIRST robotics competitions

• http://nylfsecurity.org/ Spread Linux & Network Security awareness to National Youth Leadership Forum on Technology (targeted towards computer nerds in their high school days!). I made a "Why you should use Linux" presentation to an audience of Windows users.

Linux/OSS Experience

• I started using Linux around the late-2.4, early-2.6 days (my first compiled kernel was 2.6.0-test11). I started with a KNOPPIX HD-INSTALL, but soon started trying other distros --- TOO MANY other distros. I can attest to trying every general desktop Linux distros there is. I mostly, however, used Debian, until Ubuntu Warty was released. I instantly fell in love with Ubuntu, and registered my login name at UbuntuForums.org. I offered the administrator if he needed any help, and he provided me with moderator status. I started giving suggestions to the forums administrator about the layout and moderation policies, and soon was promoted to Super Moderator, as I am today.

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• Though I've only been using Linux for a relatively short time, I've tried to incorporate it in all my computing tasks -- I use Linux LiveCD's instead of Windows at school, and also spread their use. In USFirst Robotics, I am the project leader for the Linux programming tools, and provide community support for them. I'm currently developing an embedded Linux coprocessor for use on these robotics. As with all my projects, the community is a big piece, and I spend a lot of time offering help to the community.

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