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 - Iain has been an excellent liaison between the Canonical design team and the Ubuntu Community, in particular the artwork community. He is active on the Ubuntu artwork mailing list, is quick to reply to questions asked on the list and has been effective in running the wallpaper contests each cycle. All the pretty wallpapers we have each cycle would not have been there if Iain did not take the pains to co-ordinate the massive effort with the community. He has always been easy to approach and has helped me co-ordinate and manage the Papercuts Project. My only grievance would be that I haven't seen a video show-casing his stand-up comedy skills. But, definitely a +1 for an Ubuntu membership. -- [[LaunchpadHome:vish]]

About Me

I started tinkering with Ubuntu on an ancient AMD desktop back when I still had to compile my own copy of Mplayer with a Terminator theme - awesome! Since then I've played with it in my spare time, worked for Canonical for 2 years and been professionally involved in 5 releases.

I am in constant love with technology, take lots and lots of pictures and if you've not spoken to me about Motorcycles then you've not spoken to me Smile :)

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Contact Information

Contributions

- Contributed to 9.04 as community member filing bug reports, notes on linlap wiki for HP models of laptop

- Contributed to releases 9.10 - 11.10 as member of Canonical Design and comms team, filing, triaging and advocating use of Ubuntu

- Ran sessions at UDS around artwork and design from 2009 - 2011

- Ran the desktop photo wallpaper contests on Flickr working in conjunction with community team from 10.04 onwards

- Worked closely with Dalton Maag in creation of Ubuntu Font

- Managed Ubuntu Font event held at London's Design Museum

- Liaised with wider promotional community like OMG!Ubuntu and encouraged their contribution to the Ubuntu community

Future Goals

I am leaving Canonical in November 2011 but want to continue to contribute by: - Continuing to run wallpaper contest

- Curate photo wallpaper packs in conjunction with other photo sharing websites - already have commitment from 500px.com

- Get more involved in the excellent DarkTable project - http://darktable.sourceforge.net/

Testimonials

If you know me and have something nice to say, please leave a comment here.

  • - Iain has been an excellent liaison between the Canonical design team and the Ubuntu Community, in particular the artwork community. He is active on the Ubuntu artwork mailing list, is quick to reply to questions asked on the list and has been effective in running the wallpaper contests each cycle. All the pretty wallpapers we have each cycle would not have been there if Iain did not take the pains to co-ordinate the massive effort with the community. He has always been easy to approach and has helped me co-ordinate and manage the Papercuts Project. My only grievance would be that I haven't seen a video show-casing his stand-up comedy skills. But, definitely a +1 for an Ubuntu membership. -- vish

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