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Welcome to Jonathan's homepage in Ubuntuland!

What am I interested in at the moment?

• LTSP Cluster Packaging - https://code.launchpad.net/~ltsp-cluster-team/ltsp-cluster/
  Edubuntu 9.10 Advocacy/Marketing - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Edubuntu/9.10/Tasks
  As an Edubuntu Council member working on getting Edubuntu back in shape
  Ubuntu in NGO's - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NGO
  Ubuntuizing LXDE - (link pending)

Ubuntu-ZA

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

Packages I work on in Ubuntu

• ltsp-cluster-accountmanager ltsp-cluster-lbagent ltsp-cluster-lbserver ltsp-cluster-nxloadbalancer

Past stuff

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

  • Cake War: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/300

  • Ubuntu Tatoo: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/1734

  • New and Growing LoCos: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/1742

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 virusses and it was frustrating and I missed my glamerous freelance lifestyle I had before. I quit and started working on getting Linux into school. I then joined The Shuttleworth Foundation, a non-profit organisation that specialised on Open Source Software and Education. 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 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 again.

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 and since then has stuck for pretty much everything. I consider it to be my name as much as any other name I have, and I also react to it if you call me by it.

Stuff I like

• Ubuntu
  Debian
  LTSP
  Ice Cream
  Xfce

Stuff I don't like

• RPM
  Johannesburg

TODO on this page:

• Screenshots
• Expand on Edubuntu stuff
• Do the links better
• Add Goals within Ubuntu

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