Moto

Making Ubuntu a visible brand name in the corporate world.

Availability

Actively solliciting offers.

Background

• Professional ICT pedigree in Business Strategy, Key Account Management, Product Management and Training:

  • [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]

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.

  • Interested developers should contact Ubuntu's MattZimmerman for details on how to claim the bounty.

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.

• Develop an Ubuntu Debian Certified Engineer (UDCE) training program.

  • Would eliminate the corportate world's scepticism against Debian and Ubuntu.
  • Would directly compete with Red Hat's RHCE as the #1 Linux certification.
  • Would motivate ISV support of Debian and Ubuntu (e.g. Oracle, Mentor Graphics, etc.).

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-of-the-box PDF distilling capabilities. However,

  • [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=300320 Debian BTS #300320 cups-pdf: cannot run as non-privileged user on Ubuntu]

• Patches are welcome!

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