MartinEricRacine
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 that will make Ubuntu the new de-facto Entreprise Linux solution.
- Support startups interested in developing Ubuntu-based custom Debian distributions for their local market.
- Already in contact with two Baltic startups who want to do this.
Develop an [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EngineerCertification Ubuntu Debian Certified Engineer] (UDCE) training program.
- Eliminate the corportate world's scepticism against Debian and Ubuntu.
- Directly compete with Red Hat's RHCE as the #1 Linux certification.
- Motivate ISV support of Debian and Ubuntu (e.g. Oracle, etc.).
- Develop an Ubuntu Debian program for ISV partners.
- Motivate QA standards resulting from ISV participation in UDCE training program.
- Emphasize additional training on how to package software for Debian and Ubuntu.
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!