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 would be used to give Ubuntu out-the-box PDF distilling capabilities.
  • The Ubuntu CUPS package runs as a non-priviledged user, which prevents CUPS-PDF from writing its output to home directories.
  • Therefore, CUPS-PDF cannot be used on Ubuntu in its current form.
  • Patches are welcome!

Availability

• Actively solliciting job offers.

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