Hi everyone,
My name is Zoltan Ness. I am new to the community here, but I’ve used Ubuntu for many years starting with Breezy Badger. I went back to Slackware after Debian/Ubuntu adopted systemd, but I’m returning to Ubuntu now with the intention of becoming an active community member.
I am passionate about open source adoption and using technology to help people achieve their goals. My work experience has spanned the spectrum of IT and telecom, primarily dealing with system engineering, management platforms, and infrastructure. For the last ten years I have been running my own consulting business, building a unified model of context, and designing a community service platform that will bring together existing services into a single directory to address needs of the whole person.
My interest in Ubuntu is both technical, seeing it well positioned to take the lead in the datacenter and on the desktop, and personal, feeling that it will play an important role bringing services to the wider community.
More concretely, I want to find and/or create configurations that support the work people do on a day-to-day basis. Ubuntu already has a great start in that area, in particular Edubuntu. I believe there is an opportunity to go further. For Edubuntu, can we bundle open source courses in addition to software? For corporate desktops, can we bundle collaboration and knowledge management software, giving leaders an alternative to Microsoft Teams/Sharepoint/etc. and giving smaller organisations access to those capabilities? For datacenter infrastructure, do we have turnkey monitoring, reporting, problem management, …?
If these are already solved, I look forward to learning about them. If not, I accept the challenge and will work to bring them to life.
