My Experience as a Farmer, Trader and Principle of Village Affairs in Contributing for the BlankOn Project, GNOME-based

Linux Distribution

Rahman Yusri Aftian @aftian

About Me

● Quality Assurance BlankOn 5 Nanggar 2009● Release Manager BlankOn 6 Ombilin 2010● Release Manager BlankOn 7 Pattimura 2011● Release Manager BlankOn 8 Rote 2012● Factory (irgsh, cd, i15n) BlankOn 6, 7, 8, 9, 10● Farmer at Village Gresik

BlankOn

● a non profit-project● a way educate people about developing

F/OSS Software Products● an exercise of F/OSS development before

going upstream

And

Not Easily Contribute

Why ???

Pamong Desa / Village OfficialsAbd Azis Wasik

● Officials routinely working village, ● Coffee lovers and listening Retro Music.● Spiritual advisor Mr. Rahman Yusri aftian #just_kidding.

On linux BlankOn as packager since 2010 in BlankOn 7 Pattimura until now, it also helps a lot in art team. HTML5 in Manokwari Desktop modify and customize the GTK theme. All I did to enjoy.

Since the community-based Linux blankon and flexibility. As is the case in my workplace. Can all help each other and contribute.

Private Company EmployeeSupriyadiWorking on private company producing Health Drink, as a PPIC Manager. Contributing in Blankon Project as Packager since 2011 in BlankOn Pattimura. Also active in several FOSS comunitiessuch as Paguyuban Pengguna Blankon Surabaya, Kelompok Pengguna Linux Sidoarjo etc.Interesting to Join in FOSS project because it is according to his motto in live that live is to learn, love and serve. It is also interesting to learn something new in IT, the world that he did not know before, the world that he only know as switch on the computer, typing and print the report.

Musisi / Musicians

Kukuh Syafaat (a.k.a. cho2)

● Session Musician● GNU/Linux Enthusiast● BlankOn user since 1.0● BlankOn developer since 7.0● Currently work on local startup

Porter LPGMahyuddin

- Working on LPG Distributor as porter.- Staying in Banda Aceh, the western area of Indonesia - Join on the BlankOn Project, since the project moved

upstream to Debian exactly 2 months of development BlankOn 8 (Rote)

- Porter LPG at noon and night contribute to BlankOn Project, but ongoing contributions in a coffee shop or cyber cafe because i don’t have internet connection at my house.

- Interesting F/LOSS Project

Comic Trader

● Working on Istana Media (CEO)● Live in Semarang, Central Java● Start join on Blankon Project since 2010 on

Documentation Team● F/LOSS enthusiast

Peternak Ayam/Cickhen FarmerAnd Me : Rahman Yusri Aftian

● Village People● Dreaming About Independance ● Coffee Lovers (Black Magic Water) and

Listening Dangdut Music

Indonesia

Has 13.487 large and small islands.Indonesian territory extends along 3.977 mile.Indonesia's land area is 1.922.570 km².Wide waters 3,257,483 km².

http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia

Slow Internet ConnectionOnly only …!!!

Limited Time Work & Contribute

We develop blankon linux with part-time outside the regular working hours of our time at home and anywhere

Source: http://kompmas.blogspot.com/2012/10/teknologi-komputer-dalam-masyarakat.html

Armada● Interface (web): irgsh.boi - Jakarta●Repository: arsip.boi, archive-dev.boi - Surabaya●Factory source code package: irgsh.boi - Jakarta●Factory binary packages:

oCemani (i386), Bahadur (amd64) – SurabayaoCendrawasih (i386) – AmsterdamoKate (amd64) – Gresik 

Automation and Distribution

● Packages are built by robots● Done elsewhere (factory)● Engine developers can rest● More than one robot / factory● Location robot / plant can spread

And Finnaly

★ www.blankonlinux.or.id★ dev.blankonlinux.or.id★ distrowatch.com/blankon★ i15.blankonlinux.or.id★ irgsh.blankonlinux.or.id★ arsip.blankonlinux.or.id★ cdimage.blankonlinux.or.id

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