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| I'm actually a pilot, not actually insane, and doing my best to have Ubuntu's wiki make sense from the perspective of someone who's only been using Linux since early June 2005. | I'm actually a pilot, not actually insane, and doing my best to have Ubuntu's wiki make sense from the perspective of someone who's only been using Linux since late May 2005. |
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| My email is yh728 at victoria dot tc dot ca. | Prior to May I ran Windows XP for a while, and Win98SE for 5 years before that. I've become a thorough convert to the Linux home desktop - it really does work, full time and Windows-free! |
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| I maintain a website at http://www.warbard.ca/ although there is really nothing about Ubuntu there currently. | My email is blurdesign at gmail dot com; alternately try yh728 at victoria dot tc dot ca. I'm fairly fluent in HTML and CSS, starting to learn PHP & Javascript, and do a bit of web development for fun and extra income. I maintain a website at http://www.warbard.ca/ although there is really nothing about Ubuntu there currently. ---- I signed the [http://www.ubuntulinux.org/community/conduct/ Ubuntu Code of Conduct] on October 23, 2005, and can now call myself an '''Ubuntite!''' My [https://launchpad.net/people/yh728 Launchpad page], although there's not a lot there that isn't also here. I'm a volunteer on the DocumentationTeam and WikiTeam, mostly contributing to this wiki. I'm also on the CanadianTeam, and follow the ArtTeam and MarketingTeam's activities when I've got time. '''On The Wiki:''' The hardware pages have been a bit of a focus; I've helped clean up the printer sections, and done a lot of proofreading, typo hunting, and general editing. I created the OperaBrowser page, and I've re-written large parts of BasicCommands, ["ApacheMySQLPHP"], and a couple of other pages. Pet pages, in no particular order: OperaBrowser, BasicCommands, ["ApacheMySQLPHP"], WikiGuide, DIYMarketing '''On The Docs:''' I've been adding to the Desktop Guide, bringing parts of it up to date (in between muttering about DocBook XML, which I've never worked with before...). I've helped complete rewrite the CD burning section to reflect the tools that are available by default in 5.10, and contributed several other patches, mostly agains the Common Tasks section of the Desktop Guide. '''IRC:''' I spend time on #ubuntu and some of the other Ubuntu IRC channels, as well, helping where I can. At least half of being helpful on #ubuntu is knowing how to use the resident bot - ubotu - because so many of the problems recurr again and again... And yes, I'm related to CoreyBurger, who is my younger brother. ---- CategoryHomepage |
"Madpilot" is Brian Burger's username or nick on various online activities, including #ubuntu on IRC.
I'm actually a pilot, not actually insane, and doing my best to have Ubuntu's wiki make sense from the perspective of someone who's only been using Linux since late May 2005.
Prior to May I ran Windows XP for a while, and Win98SE for 5 years before that. I've become a thorough convert to the Linux home desktop - it really does work, full time and Windows-free!
My email is blurdesign at gmail dot com; alternately try yh728 at victoria dot tc dot ca.
I'm fairly fluent in HTML and CSS, starting to learn PHP & Javascript, and do a bit of web development for fun and extra income. I maintain a website at http://www.warbard.ca/ although there is really nothing about Ubuntu there currently.
I signed the [http://www.ubuntulinux.org/community/conduct/ Ubuntu Code of Conduct] on October 23, 2005, and can now call myself an Ubuntite!
My [https://launchpad.net/people/yh728 Launchpad page], although there's not a lot there that isn't also here.
I'm a volunteer on the DocumentationTeam and WikiTeam, mostly contributing to this wiki. I'm also on the CanadianTeam, and follow the ArtTeam and MarketingTeam's activities when I've got time.
On The Wiki: The hardware pages have been a bit of a focus; I've helped clean up the printer sections, and done a lot of proofreading, typo hunting, and general editing. I created the OperaBrowser page, and I've re-written large parts of BasicCommands, ["ApacheMySQLPHP"], and a couple of other pages.
Pet pages, in no particular order: OperaBrowser, BasicCommands, ["ApacheMySQLPHP"], WikiGuide, DIYMarketing
On The Docs: I've been adding to the Desktop Guide, bringing parts of it up to date (in between muttering about DocBook XML, which I've never worked with before...). I've helped complete rewrite the CD burning section to reflect the tools that are available by default in 5.10, and contributed several other patches, mostly agains the Common Tasks section of the Desktop Guide.
IRC: I spend time on #ubuntu and some of the other Ubuntu IRC channels, as well, helping where I can. At least half of being helpful on #ubuntu is knowing how to use the resident bot - ubotu - because so many of the problems recurr again and again...
And yes, I'm related to CoreyBurger, who is my younger brother.
Madpilot (last edited 2008-08-06 16:16:14 by localhost)