My apologies for introducing myself so late. I was out of town and didn't had Internet connectivity (not even cellular network).
My name is Russell, and I'm the team leader of Ubuntu Bangladesh [1]. Our team isn't "official" yet, but we hope to get this status on the next CC meeting on 17th. The main aim of our LoCo team is to promote the use of Ubuntu in Bangladesh, which we think is far more important than localisation efforts. In a country where pirated copies of Windows can be bought for US$ 0.50 or less, it is very difficult to convince people even to *try* a non-Microsoft OS. About myself, I work for an international NGO [2] as an IT Specialist, and my job is technical supervision and policy formulation for 28 school based telecenters across the country. Right now 10 of the telecenters are running on Ubuntu, and in the near future we plan to put Ubuntu on all other centers as well. I've got a good connection with local NGOs who are working on the same field, and I'm trying to convert them too. Sometimes I feel like a religious preacher ;) I first tried Linux in 1997, but using it regularly since 1999. I co-founded BLUA [3], a local LUG where we mainly work on Linux advocacy and promotion. I'm involved with several other projects as well, the latest of which is Creative Commons' Bangladeshi jurisdiction-specific licensing initiative -- I'm working on as the Project Lead. My favourite colour is black and dark blue, and I dislike yellow and white. Hope to talk to you soon, Best regards, Russell [1] www.ubuntu-bd.org [2] www.schoolsonline.org [3] www.linux.org.bd On 9/6/06, Jono Bacon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > >From digging through the archive, there don't seem to have been many > introductions on the list to say who is on here and which team they are > from. So, I figured, this might be a good opportunity to do so. :) > > So, let us know who you, which team you are in, why you love using > Ubuntu, and what you would like to do in the future. Also, tell us your > favourite colour. My fave colour is red by the way. :) > > Jono > > -- > Jono Bacon > Ubuntu Community Manager > jono(at)ubuntu(dot)com > www.ubuntu.com / www.jonobacon.org > > > -- > loco-contacts mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts > -- loco-contacts mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
