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Mike Basinger is a moderator Ubuntu Forums and a Ubuntu backport developer. ||<tablestyle="float:right; font-size: 0.9em; width:30%; background:#F1F1ED; margin: 0 0 1em 1em;" style="padding:0.5em;"> '''Launchpad''': || [https://launchpad.net/~mike.basinger mike.basinger] ||
||<|2(> '''E-Mail''': || mike.basinger@ubuntu.com ||
|| mike.basinger@gmail.com ||
|| '''IRC''': || technoviking or mikeb on [http://freenode.net/ freenode] ||
|| '''Blog''': || http://www.mikesplanet.net ||
|| '''Jabber''': || mike.basinger@gmail.com ||
|| '''Ubuntu Forums''': || [http://www.ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=5551 Mike] ||

== About me ==
I'm a 40 year old System Administrator from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana Indiana]. I currently live in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_lake_city Salt Lake City, UT] (UTC -7) with my wife and son.

I am the head of Staff Technologies at the [http://www.lib.utah.edu Marriott Library] at the [http://www.utah.edu University of Utah].


== Linux & Open Source ==
I started using Linux in 1998. I needed to replace a aging Sun server running a web server. Having a limited budget, I installed [http://www.redhat.com RedHat] 5.1 on a i386 computer I built from extra parts I had. It was perfect solution. I continue to find new uses for Linux in my job.

In 2001, I took and passed the [https://www.redhat.com/training/rhce/courses/ RedHat Certified Engineer] exam.

== Ubuntu ==
I started using Ubuntu in 2004, when I could not get a new sound card and ethernet card to work under Fedora Core 3. I heard about Ubuntu listening to the [http://www.lugradio.org/ LUGRadio] podcast. I decided to try it, and sure enough everything just worked.

After that I learned more about the Ubuntu community and decided it was the place for me.

=== Contributions to Ubuntu ===
 * I'm an administrator and member of the [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ForumCouncil Forums Council] on the [http://www.ubuntuforums.org/ Ubuntu Forums].
 * I'm a member of the [http://www.ubuntu.com/community/processes/council Ubuntu Communitity Council].
 * I have attended the Ubuntu Developers Summits in Mountain View, Sevilla, and Boston.
 * I have made packages for Ubuntu and a member of the Ubuntu Backports Team.
 * I'm a member of the [http://ubuntu-utah.org/ Ubuntu-Utah] [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeams LoCo] Team.

=== Contributions to MOTU ===
Submitted font package: [http://revu.tauware.de/details.py?package=ttf-liberation ttf-liberation] for inclusion in Ubuntu 8.04

=== Plans for Ubuntu ===
I would like to see more communication between the Ubuntu Forums and other Ubuntu Teams, especially the Launchpad team and Ubuntu software development teams. I also plan to help the MOTUs, maybe even joining the elite ranks.

About me

I'm a 40 year old System Administrator from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana Indiana]. I currently live in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_lake_city Salt Lake City, UT] (UTC -7) with my wife and son.

I am the head of Staff Technologies at the [http://www.lib.utah.edu Marriott Library] at the [http://www.utah.edu University of Utah].

Linux & Open Source

I started using Linux in 1998. I needed to replace a aging Sun server running a web server. Having a limited budget, I installed [http://www.redhat.com RedHat] 5.1 on a i386 computer I built from extra parts I had. It was perfect solution. I continue to find new uses for Linux in my job.

In 2001, I took and passed the [https://www.redhat.com/training/rhce/courses/ RedHat Certified Engineer] exam.

Ubuntu

I started using Ubuntu in 2004, when I could not get a new sound card and ethernet card to work under Fedora Core 3. I heard about Ubuntu listening to the [http://www.lugradio.org/ LUGRadio] podcast. I decided to try it, and sure enough everything just worked.

After that I learned more about the Ubuntu community and decided it was the place for me.

Contributions to Ubuntu

Contributions to MOTU

Submitted font package: [http://revu.tauware.de/details.py?package=ttf-liberation ttf-liberation] for inclusion in Ubuntu 8.04

Plans for Ubuntu

I would like to see more communication between the Ubuntu Forums and other Ubuntu Teams, especially the Launchpad team and Ubuntu software development teams. I also plan to help the MOTUs, maybe even joining the elite ranks.

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