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6	6	**My Experience in Open Source**
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8		-I first got into the Open Source space in 2005 when I was introduced to Ubuntu as part of one of my IT classes in high school. I remember being blown away by how amazing it looked and felt all while being free to use, but was even more impressed that such a space existed in the first place. Though I was not a developer, (and still not for the most part, though I can build some things in BASIC if desired) I enjoyed learning more about it and playing around with various software that were released as well as learning my way around the Terminal. The fact that Canonical sent me a CD for free as well cemented my appreciation of the culture around Open Source as download speeds in the Philippines were very slow back then. I continued experimenting over the next few years as I moved around the world, though occasionally to certain levels of frustration due to mistakes I made while attempting to install multiple operating systems on a single device, such as messing up GRUB and not being able to fix it easily enough that it made more sense to start over again.
	8	+I first got into the Open Source space in 2005 when I was introduced to Ubuntu as part of one of my IT classes. I remember being blown away by how amazing it looked and felt all while being free to use, but was even more impressed that such a space existed in the first place. Though I was not a developer, (and still not for the most part, though I can build some things in BASIC if desired) I enjoyed learning more about it and playing around with various software that were released as well as learning my way around the Terminal. The fact that Canonical sent me a CD for free as well cemented my appreciation of the culture around Open Source as download speeds in the Philippines were very slow back then. I continued experimenting over the next few years as I moved around the world, though occasionally to certain levels of frustration due to mistakes I made while attempting to install multiple operating systems on a single device, such as messing up GRUB and not being able to fix it easily enough that it made more sense to start over again.
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10	10	In 2011, I applied to work as a Tech Support staff member at the University of Washington College of Education, and I mentioned that I would be comfortable providing support for Windows and Ubuntu, as well as perhaps some other Linux distros. I was told that they've never had a support issue around the latter, but I still made the team. I quickly gained an association within the team for Open Source software since most others were either more on Mac or Windows. I'll never forget the day or the look on my boss's face when someone walked in a few months after I was hired and asked for help with connecting their Ubuntu laptop with the SmartBoard. We didn't succeed as well as I'd like unfortunately, but we got it to work for the most part.
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