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| == Edubuntu Council Elections 2009 == I am standing again for the Edubuntu Council for the next year. As part of the Edubuntu Council my aim will be to bring Edubuntu closer to similar projects and also keep the Edubuntu project on track in becoming an ever better system for use in schools and education. Edubuntu still has lots of potential and I would really like to see it fulfill as much as that as possible. |
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| {*} [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Edubuntu/9.10/Tasks|Edubuntu 9.10 Advocacy/Marketing]] <<BR>> {*} Edubuntu Council member working on getting Edubuntu back in shape <<BR>> {*} [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NGO|Ubuntu in NGO's]] <<BR>> {*} Becoming a MOTU, read my [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JonathanCarter/MOTUApplication|application here]] for the next [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Council/Meetin|MOTU Council meeting]]. (maybe it will be postponed to the following one) (ooh- this has actually been done) |
{*} [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Edubuntu/9.10/Tasks|Edubuntu 10.04 Advocacy/Marketing]] <<BR>> {*} Edubuntu Council member overseeing Edubuntu technical and community issues <<BR>> {*} EMEA Council member reviewing Ubuntu membership requests in the Europe, Middle-East and Africa regions <<BR>> {*} [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NGO|Ubuntu in NGO's]], particularly interested in solutions for low/no-bandwidth areas <<BR>> {*} MOTU Work: Reviewing packages on REVU and sponsoring bug fixes |
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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
- 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
See also: Related Software in Launchpad
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
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
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