Tea-for-one | Membership Application

Community Membership
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Application

My application is 99% based on contributions to ubuntuforums.org and discourse.ubuntu.com

Identities

Mark to my colleagues, friends and neighbours.
tea-for-one on discourse.ubuntu.com
tea for one on ubuntuforums.org
tea for one in Launchpad
This page is also my wiki

Location

UK Resident (South of England) together with my long term partner, the Fragrant Sue.
Not forgetting two female rescue cats, one is calico and charming, the other is a ginger saboteur.

Education & Employment

BA (Hons) Language Studies (Spanish & English)
Retired since 2017, previously employed in Printing and Allied Trades

Interests

International Football and Test Match Cricket
Blues Music (from the Thames Delta to Mali via Clarksdale)
Eating out - Japanese food is a particular addiction
Pub visits
The Art of English e.g. inventive playful language, satire, parody

Ubuntu Background

Keen, self-taught Ubuntu home user
First installation was Feisty Fawn (7.04) in 2007 but only to play around, nothing serious.
If I remember correctly, in those far-off days, you couldn’t yet play an mp3 file.

In 2008, I installed Hardy Heron LTS (8.04) and began to move all my data to Ubuntu.
Every two years, I download and install the latest LTS iso, add my favourite apps and restore my data.

Ubuntu 24.04 is my daily OS installed on a 2023 GMKtec K2 mini PC
Xubuntu 24.04 minimal on a 2021 Lenovo netbook
Lubuntu 24.04 minimal on a 2015 HP Stream netbook
Investigation of non LTS releases & flavours using a 2019 Intel NUC8i3 mini PC

Contributions

  • Ubuntu Forums member (joined in 2008), however, I began to post more regularly after retirement in 2017.
  • Mainly interested in issues of installation, (dual) boot, boot-repair, UEFI firmware options inter alia.
  • Encouraged by @Wild_Man, I registered for Ubuntu Discourse in November 2024.
  • A few bugs reported via Launchpad
  • A visit to Canonical (approx 2015) to take part in a user survey about the ubuntu.com website.

Future

  • Simply, to continue offering suggestions in Support and Help
  • I tend to read many posts which are technically out of my comfort zone. Hopefully, I can assimilate a bit more knowledge and try to help on a wider scale.

Final Thought

Luckily for me, @discobot has deprecated Groucho Marx’s well-known terminal request:-

Please accept my resignation. I don’t want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member

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Hi! To find out what I can do, say @discobot display help.

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@tea-for-one please add yourself to the schedule, day and time you want to have your meeting.

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It is an honor and a privilege to endorse @tea-for-one for Ubuntu Membership. The quality of posts here in helping others and their expertise has been great to see. While I haven’t seen their forum contributions as I wasn’t active there, their contributions here have been of a stellar quality over the past six months, and I consider that significant and sustained.

+1 from me!

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@tea-for-one had a consistent history of quality sustained support on Ubuntu Forums and I will gladly recommend him for Ubuntu membership!

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I fully endorse this application for membership.

I have observed the contributions from @tea-for-one for many years both on the Ubuntu Forums and now here on Discourse.

His attention to detail, consistency and quality of answers, and making sure to come back and check that the issue was resolved is something we should all strive for.

I believe that Ubuntu Membership would not only be well-deserved but also long overdue for his significant and sustained contributions to the community.

Big thumbs up from me :+1:

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@rubi1200 @Frogs_Hair @eeickmeyer
Thank you for your kind support

Also, thank you to those who :heart: my application

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I also only have good things to say about tea-for-one for his many years of offering help on the forum to reporting posts, his dedication is exemplary.

Are you planning to attend the meeting tomorrow? if so please add yourself to the meeting schedule as I mentioned above.

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Regrettably, the 1st May is somewhat inconvenient for me.
I plan to attend the meeting on 21st May

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