Archive for January, 2007

Ubuntu Membership

// January 16th, 2007 // 4 Comments » // General

Last Tuesday I was present at the Ubuntu Community Council meeting where my application for Ubuntu membership was under consideration. Thankfully I was near the front of a rather large queue of applicants, so I did not have to wait too long to be considered.

I nominated myself for membership on the basis of my contributions with the bugsquad and my involvement with the Ubuntu-UK team. I had a merry band of supporters from the Ubuntu-UK team pre-volunteer to support my application and rather surprisingly support from a few other people I didn’t really know on the basis of my bug and documentation efforts.

After a few moments of consideration I received three “+1s” from the Council and became a full fledged Ubuntu member. Wohoo! Thanks to all that supported my application :)

2006 Reviewed

// January 5th, 2007 // No Comments » // General

Here’s a quick summary of what has happened to me during 2006. It seems as time passes I blog less and less, the adage of ‘the more interesting your life gets, the less time you have to blog about it’ probably proving true. It means it’s hard to remember things you’ve done too.

January
February
March
  • I don’t really remember anything happening in March.
April
May
  • Joined Britannias “Middleware” team
  • Started a weekly blog series of any pages I’ve bookmarked , that quickly fizzled out though.
June
July
  • Sara and I hit our two year anniversary.
  • Spent time playing around with Ruby on Rails
August
  • I turned 21 and stopped my twice weekly swimming due to all of the kids in the pool.
September
October
November
  • Uni work taking up all of my time again, Sara came to live the student lifestyle for a weekend too.
December
  • Finally got an iPod after uhming and ahming for a few years. Thanks Sara!
  • Spent New Years Eve at Saras aunties with her family and called around to my cousins.

I also managed to keep last years new years resolutions somewhat. I’ve lost weight and have done more exercise than in the past, until going back to uni I was also getting a full 7 hours sleep each night. I’ve also increased my open source participation, I’m involved in both the Ubuntu Bugsquad and the Ubuntu UK “street team”. Hopefully next week I’ll be a Ubuntu member too.