<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Elizabeth Krumbach <<a href="mailto:lyz@ubuntu.com">lyz@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> The following 10 contributors were accepted as Ubuntu Members at the Americas Membership Board Meeting this evening: Arturo Hernandez <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/toluxero" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/toluxero</a> <a href="https://launchpad.net/%7Etoluxero" target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/~toluxero</a> Arturo is an active member of the Ubuntu Mexico team. In his role with the team he is a member and administrator, helps coordinate events and encourages others to use Ubuntu and is now a supervisor on the Ubuntu México Podcast. Jeremy Pallats <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/starcraft.man" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/starcraft.man</a> <a href="https://launchpad.net/%7Estarcraft.man" target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/~starcraft.man</a> Jeremy is an Ubuntu contributor from Quebec, Canada. A majority of his contributions come from Ubuntu Forums and Ubuntu Beginners team, where he does IRC support and is the leader of the Wiki Focus Group which seeks to improve wiki documentation. Chris Johnston <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ChristopherJohnston" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ChristopherJohnston</a> <a href="https://launchpad.net/%7Echrisjohnston" target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/~chrisjohnston</a> Chris resides in Florida, USA and started out writing about Ubuntu for his blog about a year ago. He is a member of the Florida LoCo Team, currently being mentored for contributions to the Bug Squad and Beginners Team and is a member of the Ubuntu Community Learning Project where he is currently helping to plan upcoming Ubuntu User Days. John Pugh <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/jpugh" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/jpugh</a> <a href="https://launchpad.net/%7Ejpugh" target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/~jpugh</a> John is a long time Linux user and an active Florida, USA LoCo team member who founded the Tampa Linux Meetup group. He has presented on Cloud Computing at multiple Linux events and is currently assisting in the porting of the Amahi Project to Ubuntu. Diego Armando Forigua <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ingforigua" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ingforigua</a> <a href="https://launchpad.net/%7Eingforigua" target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/~ingforigua</a> Diego is an electrical engineer in Columbia where he is part of the Ubuntu Colombia Council working to spread Ubuntu throughout Colombia and Latin America. In addition to the council, he is an active member on the Colombian mailing list and in IRC and seeks to get further involved in Spanish translations. Robbie Williamson <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RobbieWilliamson" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RobbieWilliamson</a> <a href="https://launchpad.net/%7Erobbie.w" target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/~robbie.w</a> Robbie works as the manager of the Ubuntu Foundations and Security Teams within Canonical. He also assists in planning Ubuntu release features, the release schedule, triaging bugs (and even fixing them when time/skill permits!). In his little to no spare time he is active in the community and works on the cups-bjnp. Rick Spencer <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RickSpencer" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RickSpencer</a> <a href="https://launchpad.net/%7Erick-rickspencer3" target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/~rick-rickspencer3</a> Rick has been using Ubuntu since Warty and has been the Engineering Manager for the desktop team since Jaunty. In addition to his core desktop work, he started the bughugger project (used to be bug-zapper) to create a desktop way to search for and sort bug tasks and started the now very popular Quickly project to help make it easy and fun to develop for Ubuntu. Carlos Andrés Zambrano Barrera <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/czam" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/czam</a> <a href="https://launchpad.net/%7Ecarlos.zambrano" target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/~carlos.zambrano</a> Carlos is a contributor from Bogotá, Colombia who is active in the Columbian LoCo team, offering support in #ubuntu-co #ubuntu-uy and #ubuntu-es. He has participated in many translations in launchpad and in guides, also support in answers in Spanish and English. He is currenty am participating in a project called zoociedad for a free wireless network to help the community, an Ubuntu server is being used to offer these services. Michelle Hall <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Michelle_Qimo_4_Kids" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Michelle_Qimo_4_Kids</a> <a href="https://launchpad.net/%7Emichelle-qimo4kids" target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/~michelle-qimo4kids</a> Michelle is an active member of the Florida LoCo team who helps with event coordination and has spoken at several conferences, including the Southern California Linux Expo 7x, Florida Linux Shows, the Atlanta Linux Fest, and the Southeast Linux Fest. She currently contributes to a small, locally run charity founded with her husband that recycles computers and gives them to children who have special needs, or are at risk, and ship these computers with their own Ubuntu-based distribution, Qimo 4 Kids. Johnathon Mlady <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/digitalvectorz" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/digitalvectorz</a> <a href="https://launchpad.net/%7Edigitalvectorz" target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/~digitalvectorz</a> Johnathon has been a full-time ubuntu since 8.04. He's an active part of the Beginner's Team, offering guidance and support as he can, and is involved with the Development focus group of the Beginner's Team' He is also a member of the Ohio LoCo/NE Ohio ReLoCo, where he recently participated in a team BugJam and is currently in the process of setting up the 10.04 global bug jam event with the NEOhio Reloco at his alma mater, exposing the ACM club and those on the west side of Cleveland to Ubuntu. Following this exciting and productive meeting, the Americas Board sends congratulations and a big welcome to these new members! </blockquote><div> CONGRATULATIONS!!! and WELCOME!!!! You all rock!! 2010 is going to be an awesome Ubu-Year! Amber Graner akgraner <a href="http://amber.redvoodoo.org/">http://amber.redvoodoo.org/</a> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> -- Elizabeth Krumbach // Lyz // pleia2 <a href="http://www.princessleia.com" target="_blank">http://www.princessleia.com</a> -- Ubuntu-news-team mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-news-team@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-news-team@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-news-team" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-news-team</a> </blockquote></div> -- Just me Amber. There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works, but only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is. Linus Torvalds