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| == Rick Timmis application for Kubuntu Membership ==
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| === Summary of my contributions to Kubuntu ===
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| I have been a full time Kubuntu user for 7 years, using Gentoo, Red Hat and SuSe with the KDE desktop prior to that.
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| I was reponsible for deploying KDE on LTSP to SuperTramp Trampolines in one of the first to the desktop deployments in the UK:
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| [http://nnc3.com/LM10/issue/17/SWLUG_UK.pdf]
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| I also founded and ran Adaptive Linux solutions, where we took the same LTSP technology and deployed it across 4 separate sites for Age Concern in Plymouth. This deployment was done using Kubuntu Linux
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| I represented many UK Free / Open Source software service companies across the UK as the CEO of the Open Source Consortium. During my time in this role, I addressed the European Parliament, with Rishab Gosh in support of his paper about Free and Open Source software:
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| [http://www.flossimpact.eu/docs/flyer.pdf]
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| This google search returns further background:
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| [https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Rick+Timmis+Linux&channel=fs&gl=uk&start=10 ]
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| I have been increasingly active, directly in the Kubuntu community for the last 3 years, Testing, Bug triaging, and getting my feet wet with packaging
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| More recently I interviewed Scarlett Clarke, and Jonathan Riddell on the At Random Podcast:
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| [http://www.atrandom.org.uk]
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| I worked with my local LUG [http://exeter.lug.org.uk] of which I founded 2.5 years ago and continue in the role of LUG Master today. Together with Jonathan Riddell we took the group through an introduction to getting involved with Kubuntu.
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| === Link to my Launchpad profile ===
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| [ https://launchpad.net/~rick-timmis]
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| === Plans and ideas for Kubuntu in the near and far future ===
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| Packaging: I would like to develop my skills in packaging and become a Kubuntu-Developer
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| Kubuntu advocacy: I'm a competent public speaker, present well, and am very well versed at delivering arguments in favour of GNU/Linux, FLOSS, KDE and Kubuntu
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| Kubuntu Radio: I am very interested in setting up a monthly LUG Radio style show, focused solely on Kubuntu providing News, Reviews, Interviews, and Project progress updates
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