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About Me

Hi, I'm a long-time Kubuntu user who has decided it is time to apply for membership.

I started using Unix on a PDP-11, and first used Linux as a live DVD with Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron), and in VMs soon afterwards. I moved to Kubuntu after the 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) Unity debut, but realized that it was not KDE software that made Kubuntu special, but the way contributors were immediately made welcome.

Contributions

User support/social media & team engagement

• User engagement and help on:

  • www.kubuntuforums.net (unofficial forum).

  • IRC - #kubuntu on irc.freenode.net

• Team engagement via:

  • IRC - #kubuntu-devel on irc.freenode.net. KDE BNC account obtained to keep a presence on this channel, which is the most important forum for development discussion.

  • Phabricator Documentation and Task Board.

  • KDE UserBase Wiki

  • KDE Community Wiki

Kubuntu Advocacy

• Social Media posts:

  • Google+.

  • Facebook.

  • Twitter.

  • Kubuntu Wire (sunset)

Testing & bug reports

• Running the development version of Kubuntu (Yakkety Yak) on my main machine in order to test and understand the evolution of the user experience, and investigate issues.
• Reporting, confirming and testing for bug reports; both in Kubuntu and upstream to KDE.

• Testing on PC, laptop and various virtual machines newly staged versions of Frameworks, Plasma & Applications, and then continuing to test and report issues once these reach the landing ppas.

• Testing of daily ISOs for function and install.
• Testing of candidate ISOs for milestone releases (e.g. Xenial 16.04.1)

Timeline

Below are non exhaustive highlights.

A fuller grep'd IRC log can be found here

- 2015-12-31 -

Testimonials

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