PeterGarrett
Obligatory Disclaimer
This page does not conform to the technical requirements, nor the writing style, beloved of venerable institutions like [http://www.tldp.org/ The Linux Documentation Project]. You have been warned. Your hacker's soul will be offended, your sense of what is right and proper for a person to be involved in such a serious undertaking as Ubuntu will become warped, and [http://interlink.webhop.org/dil-unix.gif Unix veterans] will whisper [http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/P/PEBKAC.html "PEBKAC"] about you in /msg on IRC channels, if you read on. But you will anyway, so Goodbye to All That...
I was asked on IRC if I wanted to become an Ubuntu member. Apparently this requires, amongst other [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncilAgenda?action=show onerous tasks], that I
"create a wikipage that describes (my) past work, ... plans and ... vision about the future of Ubuntu."
So this is my introduction to wiki editing. I seem to be turning into a geek... Well, perhaps I already was, and this is just a rite of passage involving the denial of Denial 
Contributions and Interests
My main contribution and work has been attempting to answer questions on the users' mailing list, and, much more often, in #ubuntu. Calling in the ops when someone misbehaves has been an occasional necessity as well, since unlike apt, I have not (yet?) been granted Super-Cow Powers. Some people have asked if I was a bot. I'm unsure as to whether this might be considered a compliment, in the IRC help channel context.
[http://interlink.webhop.org/Timer_Script.html I am not a coder, unless you call this "coding"] !
To get a clearer idea of my concerns, and an impression of what interests me, both from a computing viewpoint and more generally, you can explore the small maze I have created at
Lest this wiki page be accused of being [http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/C/content-free.html "content-free"] , or merely frivolous, I will append some quasi-serious comments. Real Soon Now...
(Stay tuned for the next instalment, coming to a Politically Correct DFSG-Free browser near you !)
Email: MailTo(peter.garrettAT SPAMFREE optusnet DOT com DOT au)
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This is a place holder which I intend to edit further in the next couple of days. ...