Long time Linux user and dabbler, I’ve been professionally Python programming for a few years now. Interested in all aspects of computing and keen to master more languages also. I love networking and have a passion for VM’s containers and K8(3)s. In fact my daily driver is a KVM guest with GPU passthrough and I also have a hobby cluster of an Atom PC and 2 Raspberry Pis running K3s for hosting my own hobby and open source apps on. Plus various other random projects.
I’ll be sure to dig through the discourse topics and see where my interest and skills overlap to see if there is any way I can help out.
A warm welcome to everyone coming in, I’m glad to see so many people excited to get started. I wanted to check in how folks have been doing? Have you been finding the contribution opportunities that you have been looking for? If not, please feel free to DM me, I’m happy to help!
Hello Canonical team! My name is Andrew Steele, and I am a candidate for the Latin America Sales Development Representative (Spanish and Portuguese Speaking) role. I could not believe the opportunity, especially considering how frequently I search specifically for positions that require fluency in Spanish and Portuguese. I have been searching for a position that values my language skills for a long time and I could not help but feel energized when I saw all these engaging posts.
I wanted to pose a question to the Canonical team before I began the interview process, what are some of the key personality traits that you have noticed consistently in your top performers?
Thank you for providing this forum for potential new hires to connect, I truly wish you all an amazing day!
Thank you for your time, e obrigado!
-Andrew Steele
I just started to get more active here. I contributed to the German-language community at https://ubuntuusers.de since 2006. Actually I wrote quite a number of articles for the Wiki there and I was for many years part of the Wiki Team there.
I recently decided to get more active on the international community. So hopefully I can help a bit growing and improving the documentation here and possibly help to move some documentation from the old wiki to Dicourse here.
Hi there, I’m Devin and I’m new to this Discourse. I’ve applied for a cyber security role and the response introduced me to this forum. I’ve been enthusiastically using Ubuntu and derivatives since Hardy Heron (though for many years, I worked at a RHEL shop). I currently teach college level cyber security and systems administration courses. I’ve recently started open sourcing some of my courses at https://greenmountaincyber.com if anyone is interested in virtualization and ethical hacking.
Hi everyone!!
I am Apoorva from India. I have been using Ubuntu for some time now but didn’t know about this forum until I received a mail encouraging to join the forum, when I applied for Security Engineer - Ubuntu. Glad to be here and happy to contribute.
hallo,
Francesco from Italy, first time here as i didn’t know this place before my application as a Senior Brand Designer at Canonical. Hope to take part in this great future that you are try to build up and i will be very happy to share my skills and know-how with you all and at the same time i will be very happy to learn something new about ubuntu and all other projects related.
Sincerely hope to be part of this excellent team.
I’m happy to join this community and hope to be able to contribute in a positive and meaningful way while learning, adapting to the needs and being flexible.
My name is John, and I’ve been a Linux user since I was 14 years old after I received a famous live CD in the post - which I think means the first version of Ubuntu I tried was either Dapper Drake or Edgy Eft! I’ve been a passionate Linux user ever since.
These days, I spend a lot of time working with servers, either in the cloud at work or in my homelab. I still use Ubuntu Desktop on my laptops, and I often reach for Ubuntu server when containerising an application. My main desktop is an Arch Linux machine, although I’m very interested in things like Gnu Guix and NixOS.
I’m looking forward to sharing and contributing here where I can.
My name is Saurabh Kumar Singh. I am from India. Basically I am student of Computer Science & Engineering (4th year) and prompted to introduce myself after applying for Field Software Engineer role in Canonical. Really I was knowing about canonical contribution universe.
Extremely happy to discover this new community for my learning and will have the opportunity of the team!
Hi everyone!
I am a Software Developer, I just joined Ubuntu Discourse after applying for the Web Developer job position, I would love to have some more information about the role and I am very happy to join the community!
Regards,
Eleni
Hi,
I’m new to discourse community, and I’m really happy to be hear with you, hope I can contribute and be a good addition to this community. Thanks for your time
I am Arnaldo, I have recently applied for the Senior Web Engineer position.
I’m joining the Ubuntu community because I’m interested in contributing to open source projects and collaborating with other like-minded people. I’m particularly interested in exploring ways to improve the user experience of Ubuntu and looking for opportunities to use my skills and contributing to the community.
I have a passion for working with communities and fostering collaboration. I’m excited to get to know all of you and learn more about your experiences with Ubuntu.
Thank you for welcoming me to the community, and I look forward to connecting with all of you.
Hello everybody. Now here I am as well.
My first experience with UBUNTU was a bad one. Not due to UBUNTU but due to its simple appearance. We’ve been on a huge project of building a new automized TV studio in cooperation with some partners. The whole project has been running on SUSE when all of a sudden one of our (important) partners without notifying us, swapped to this “new thing” UBUNTU. Thank you! Great! You guys could have told us in one of the millions of meetings we already had before about your plans!
But it turned out, that it was not as big of a deal as we supposed in the beginning.
From this time UBUNTU to me was the number one LINUX solution when it came to using Linux. Whether on the first PC of my children (to not infect them with bad OS habits right from the beginning.), my private PCs for a long time, or any project I had the chance to push things in the right direction.
Unfortunately the last years I was given a Redmond-infected machine for a huge project which even more unfortunately became kind of my daily workhorse. Still struggling with the Redmond-11-thing and its curiosities.
I even wrote some scripts to prototype a concept of mine, [FreeDMS] (https://github.com/Palmstroemen/FreeDMS) which I’d love to enrich the UBUNTU world with. (Not the scripts but the concepts).
I’d love to help to move UBUNTU from a machine-centric OS (like all today’s OS are) to kind of a human-centric OS. And I believe that’s possible with some fundamental concepts in mind and some
tiny changes that might later lead to some more radical changes if accepted by the users and the community. So I am more on the usability, conceptual side of things than in kernel hacks and driver implementations.
Just to give you a brief idea of my concept. We are used to organizing our data in folders and subfolders. The basic idea of my concept is to use the same names for some of the subfolders in your projects. As in almost all projects, you’ll have to handle /_finance issues or /_communication issues. If you do so, these recurring folders become machine-readable and searchable and this leads to a totally new way of organizing yourself on your computer. The OS could help with this structured way of depositing your files by templates. So a project folder becomes more than a simple folder in your today’s OS as it contains several standardized (hidden) folders that are there right at your disposal once you need them. Once you got this concept, you’ll soon remark that “Everything is a project”. Your job is a project, jour family is a project, your children are subprojects of your family if you like it that way, your car is a project, your computer itself is a project and even you are a project yourself inside your computer.
And all these ideas led me to a concept of a human-centric OS that I’d like to propose to the UBUNTU community.
Hi all, I am new to the community and excited to be a part of it. I actually didn’t know this community existed until I was suggested to join by a recent job application. I love tech communities! I am a part of one local to me with over 100 active members. We do weekly virtual events together such as coding challenges, tech talks, and lunch chats, job preps, and async virtual convo’s like this one! I really enjoy participating in open source software as well. I am a maintainer/admin for a few popular repos, and I’ve contributed to several more!
I have been using ubuntu on and off since version 16 (which I feel like came out about 5 or 6 years ago?). I started using it as my primary coding OS since the release of WSL2 from Windows, where I tend to just use the Windows side as a GUI interface, and Ubuntu for all fun coding related activities.
Anyway, that’s enough about my “community” background - I look forward to collaborating with you all and to seeing what the future holds!
Hello everyone! I am Karuna. Super excited to join the community and contribute finally, made my first MR too! Been a user of ubuntu for almost 1.5 years now. I am a student and building my career in tech writing.
I also wanted to write a tutorial and I read the guide on how to write one but I couldn’t find how or where can I start writing or if need some permissions to do so.
My topic is “installing ubuntu on Mac using UTM”
Hi everyone,
I am a long time Ubuntu (mostly Desktop) user , this is the first time I am using Ubuntu Discorse and just finished applying for Software Engineer - Digital Workplace.
I’m extremly passionate about open source and would love to contribute to the Linux foundation and Ubuntu in particular.
I would like to also take the opportunity to thank the community for all the great work, looking forward to being a part of it
