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Welcome to Jonathan's homepage in Ubuntuland!

What am I interested in at the moment?

• LTSP Cluster Packaging
  Edubuntu 10.04 Advocacy/Marketing
  Edubuntu Council member overseeing Edubuntu technical and community issues
  EMEA Council member reviewing Ubuntu membership requests in the Europe, Middle-East and Africa regions
  Ubuntu in NGO's, particularly interested in solutions for low/no-bandwidth areas
  MOTU Work: Reviewing packages on REVU and sponsoring bug fixes

Ubuntu-ZA

• Previous Co-leader of the Ubuntu-ZA loco team
  Maintaining Ubuntu-ZA website/wiki and planet
  

Package work in Ubuntu

Universe:

• ltsp-cluster-accountmanager: Packaged for karmic, sponsored by stgraber
  ltsp-cluster-lbagent: Packaged for karmic, sponsored by stgraber
  ltsp-cluster-lbserver: Packaged for karmic, sponsored by stgraber
  ltsp-cluster-nxloadbalancer: Packaged for karmic, sponsored by stgraber
  ltsp-cluster-control: Packaged for karmic, sponsored by stgraber
  ltsp-cluster-pxeconfig: Packaged for karmic, sponsored by stgraber
  libgnome: Wrote man page for gnome-open, sponsored by lool
  edubuntu-artwork: Updates, no need for sponsorship anymore since I'm a MOTU these days
  See also: Related Software in Launchpad for most current list

REVU (Reviewing, Uploading, Archiving):

• Zope packaging for Schooltool dependencies: zope.catalog, restrictedpython, zope.index, zope.size, zope.server, zope.keyreference, zope.intid, zope.lifecycleevent, zope.annotation
  Qimo packages for inclusion in universe and ultimately Edubuntu: qimo-session, qimo-wallpapers, qimo-games
  Education related: scratch, edubuntu-menueditor, gartoon-redux
  Randoms: mirrorkit, enna

Past stuff

• I created and used to maintain the first versions of the Edubuntu and Xubuntu websites.
  Fridge stories:

  • 2006-03-21 - Cake War

  • 2008-11-11 - Ubuntu Tatoo

  • 2008-11-24 - New and Growing LoCos

  I used to maintain a distribution called tuXlab that was implemented in a few hundred schools in South Africa (more info on my blog). Although it's unmaintained it's still used in quite a number of schools today still.
  Ubuntu Meetings and events:

  • Participated at Edubuntu Summit in London - June 2005 (Canonical sponsored)
  • Participated at Ubuntu Developer Summit in Paris - June 2006 (Canonical sponsored)
  • Participated at Ubuntu Education Summit in Sevilla - April 2007 (Canonical sponsored)
  • Attended Ubucon Sevilla at University of Sevilla - May 2007 (Community organised)
  • Participated at Ubuntu Developer Summit in Sevilla - May 2007 (Canonical sponsored)

  • Attended Gutsy release party in Cape Town - October 2007 (Ubuntu-ZA event)

  • Organised Hardy release party in Johannesburg - April 2008 (Ubuntu-ZA event)

  • Organised Intrepid release party in Gauteng - November 2008 (Ubuntu-ZA event)

  • Participated at Ubuntu Developer Summit in Barcelona - June 2009 (Canonical sponsored)

  • Organised Karmic release party in Cape Town - November 2009 (Ubuntu-ZA event)

  My Package Poetry, a concept from Benjamin "Mako" Hill:

  • Edgy Celebrations - December 2006

  • Coming soon... Lynx

More about me (all the gory details)

My Computing History / Career

I learned to read when I was 6 when I typed BASIC programs from magazines onto a ZX-Spectrum. When I was 12 I started doing all kinds of freelance work fixing people's computers. By the time I was in high school I mostly did graphical design and created websites for companies, I also wrote small programs here and there. After I finished school I decided to get a steady job and worked in a computer shop for a while. All I did all day was removing viruses and it was frustrating and I missed my "glamorous" freelance lifestyle I had before. I quit and started working on getting Linux into schools. I then joined http://shuttleworthfoundation.org The Shuttleworth Foundation, a non-profit organisation that at the time, specialised on Open Source Software and Education as the Open Source Technical Co-ordinator. I worked there for nearly 3 years until I was called by the rat race and excitement of the commercial world. I joined Impi Linux, a small startup targeting business and government. After working there for a year it was acquired by a larger company that I didn't enjoy working for. In November 2008 I founded http://zanix.co.za Zanix Software Systems, where I currently work. It's a small and steady growing company and I get to choose what I work on again. Life is good.

Where does "highvoltage" come from?

There was a stage where I listened to the song "H! VLTG3" on the Linkin Park Reanimation album over and over again. It kind of resonated with me. My father walked into my room and said "You're starting to look like a high voltage". That was right at the moment where I was busy deciding on a username for my ISP, so it became highvoltage for pretty much everything. I tried changing it to "jcc" once but people were surprisingly resistant to it, so highvoltage stuck and it's now just as much as name as any other that I have.

Stuff I like

• Ubuntu
  Debian
  LTSP
  Ice Cream
  Gnome
  Xfce
  

Stuff I don't like

• RPM
  Johannesburg
  Grapefruit
  Mean people (but I do enjoy messing with them)
  

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