On May 26, 2009, at 7:27PM, Loell Anthony Erecre was officially accepted as an Ubuntu Member by the Asia-Oceania Membership Board. Membership is a recognition of an Ubuntero's significant and sustained contribution to Ubuntu and the community.

Loell has posted a couple of Howtos and provided substantial and timely user-support in the Ubuntu Forums since October 2005, earning him a position as Moderator in the LoCo sub-forum on October 6, 2007.

But his contributions aren't limited to the forums. He developed a third-party tool for searching Personal Package Archives (PPA) Repositories called PPA-Search and has maintained a PPA repository for Gyachi, a Yahoo!Messenger client that has webcam and video-chat support.

Loell hails from Davao City, Philippines whose day job is a Marine Cargo Surveyor and Developer for Syeport Marine Services.