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About Me

• Name: Vincenzo Ampolo (aka goshawk)

• Born 1987 in Italy, living in Milan since 2006.

• Languages: Italian and English.
• GNU/Linux user since 2000 starting with mandrake 8.2 (now mandriva), then red hat and then debian for 4 years. From 3 years i'm using ubuntu for both servers and desktops.

• Websites: Italian blog, English blog

Activities

• Ex project leader of Splashy

• Working on ubuntu/debian arm port for embedded devices like Openmoko Freerunner and Openpandora

• Working on D programming language integration on ubuntu/debian.

• Active member for ubuntu release parties

  • Italian Jaunty Release Party

Development Skills

I started programming in C at 14, doing a little irc bot called Karrarmato. At 15/16 years old i learned C++ and developed splashy, when it was ported to C, i left the project leadership. At 18 i learned python and i focused on web applications developing with pylons

At 20 years old i discovered the D programming language and i'm working for it's integration in ubuntu with my packages.

Wiki Pages

Translations

Ubuntu Case Study: PortSeguro translated from Italian to English.

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