About me

I am 21 and I am currently living in Bath, UK. I have just finished a BSc in Computer Science, and am currently waiting to graduate. I have been using Linux since late 2004, starting with Fedora Core and then briefly changing to Debian before starting to use Ubuntu in April 2006.

I am one of the channel operators in #ubuntu-uk on freenode, and try to contribute as often as possible within the channel, both by being active within the meetings and by trying to help anyone with support requests. I am also active in the operator channel, where I try to help by notifying ops of potential problems and trying to contribute ideas in discussions.

Mootbot

I have implemented an Eggdrop bot (which goes by the name of "[:ScribesTeam/MootBot: MootBot]") to be used in meetings with the aim of making the process of chairing the meeting and compiling minutes easier. It does this by picking out important parts of the meeting - Topics discussed, ideas that have been suggested and any decisions made. Sample output from the bot can be found [http://people.bath.ac.uk/cjo20/ubuntu-uk.20070110_2102.html here]

There have recently been problems with the hosting for Mootbot, and I aim to develop the bot further once the hosting has stabilised, either by simply adding more features, or by converting it to a more usable platform (e.g. Supybot).

Ubuntu Scribes

As a result of [:ScribesTeam/MootBot: MootBot]'s success in the UKTeam meetings, I decided to start the ScribesTeam (after much prodding from NikButler) with ausimage. The aim of this team is to provide a repository of high quality logs and summaries from as many meetings within the Ubuntu community as possible. This will hopefully provide somewhere people can go an review past meetings with relative ease. The first meeting of the ScribesTeam was very successful, and hopefully word of what we are trying to do will spread quickly.

Advocacy

I try to promote Ubuntu wherever possible. So far I have managed to get several people to install Ubuntu, including my parents and work colleagues.

Terminator

I have recently discovered a very cool terminal program called "Terminator". This program allows a window to be split into many temrinals, remvoing the need for many terminal windows at once. I have started to implement a solution to one of the biggest problems with the software at present; the lack of ability to save the layout of the terminals. This feature is the main goal for the 1.0 release.

Future Work

Main main aim for the near future is to help the Scribes Team to the best of my ability. I feel that the goals of the Scribes Team are important to aiding the Ubuntu communuty by helping make meetings more efficient.

Finally, I aim to spend time answering support requests on launchpad as I feel that my knowledge of Ubuntu is not being put to the best possible use at the moment.

Sadly, over the last 6-9 months I have not been able to contribute as much as I would like, due to other commitments (i.e. the final year of university). I am hoping to increase my contributions over the next few months as I will have more free time.

Testimonials

• JoeyStanford: Chris' work on Mootbot has been a real boon to the Ubuntu and Launchpad communities. Many groups have found this most interesting and helpful resource an asset to keeping the rest of the community informed better than simply reading an IRC log. The Scribes team has proven to be very useful to several communities.

Wiki Pages

I have contributed to the following wiki pages:

• [:UKTeam/MeetingNotes]

• ScribesTeam

• [:ScribesTeam/MeetingNotes/]

• [:ScribesTeam/MootBot: ScribesTeam/MootBot]

• [:ScribesTeam/MeetingLSLocations: ScribesTeam/MeetingLSLocations]