MartinEricRacine
Moto
Making Ubuntu a visible brand name in the corporate world.
Background
- Professional ICT pedigree in Product Management and Key Account Management:
[http://q-funk.iki.fi Funkyware: Martin-Éric Racine: Homepage]
- Experienced UNIX user who recently started maintaining some Debian packages (cups-pdf, numlockx, upgrade-system):
[http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=q-funk%40iki.fi Debian Developer's Packages Overview]
[http://nm.debian.org/nmstatus.php?email=q-funk%40iki.fi Debian New Maintainer: Applicant Status]
- Hyperactive bug reporter with a strong emphasis on localisation and usability aspects:
[http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?submitter=q-funk%40iki.fi Debian BTS: submitter q-funk@iki.fi]
Goals for Ubuntu
ALSA PowerPC issues
- Actively sollicit PPC developer help to permanently fix ALSA on all PPC subarchitectures:
[https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=306 ALSA BTS: 0000306: compiles, but no sound comes out] (use Guest login to view)
Got MarkShuttleworth to offer a 500 USD bounty to close this issue.
Entreprise Linux
- Create, develop and implement marketing strategies to make Ubuntu the new de-facto Entreprise Linux solution.
- Further support startups interested in developing Ubuntu-based custom distributions for their local market.
- Already in contact with two Baltic startups who want to do this.
Ubuntu packages
- Maintain my own packages (see Debian packages above) and adopt some MOTU packages too.
CUPS-PDF issues
It has been suggested that CUPS-PDF ought to be used to give Ubuntu out-the-box PDF distilling capabilities. This presents some interesting challenges, because the Ubuntu CUPS package runs as a non-priviledged user, which prevents CUPS-PDF from writing its output to home directories.
Availability
- Actively solliciting job offers.