Mark Johnston

I'm Mark Johnston. I first learned programming over 40 years ago on a DEC-10 and a Sinclair ZX81 but that knowledge is now mostly forgotten and irrelevant. I've a very long standing commitment to using FOSS so buying a BQ E4.5 with Ubuntu Touch instead of an Android phone all these years ago was an obvious choice. When Canonical stopped developing the OS and UBports stepped in I saw a small community achieving an awful lot and thought it was worth supporting. There is a degree of truth in "you can't teach an old dog new tricks" so although I've improved my knowledge of Linux considerably and been able to contribute in a small way (mostly around UT on the Raspberry Pi) I am not likely to ever become a developer. However I have other skills and fairly recently volunteered to support the membership committee on the admin side which seemed to go reasonably well. I live in rural Scotland and recently took early retirement on health grounds from my work in Community Education so I should be able to put enough time and focus into the role.