Hello Fedora Infrastucture, My name is Jason Walsh, I am 16 years old and have been using GNU/Linux for about 2 years now. My first exposure to Linux was an Ubuntu 7.04 beta, and I continued using Ubuntu for several months after that. Following Ubuntu, I wanted to learn more about Linux, and switched to Arch, which I stayed on for about 10 months. Along with some friends, I currently admister an Arch Linux server on which we have deployed several Web technologies including PHP, Python, and Rails. I'm still fairly new to Fedora, only having been using it since the release of Leonidas. Already, however, I love it, as I feel it combines both ease-of-use and cutting edge software. Around the same time I started running Linux, I cut my teeth on programming with Java. Shortly after, I learned the breath of fresh air that is Python. I have been actively coding personal projects in Python for about a year now, and have contributed small amounts of code to the open-source project Crunchy. While I have mainly used Django for Web development, I have also dabbled in TurboGears and other frameworks. I want to become involved in the Fedora project because I really like the Fedora distribution itself, enjoy working on open source projects, and believe in the philosophy of free software. I feel that the infrastructure group is the place where I can be most useful to the Fedora project. This summer I am working as an intern at an IT company in their Managed Services department, doing things such as monitoring, system deployment, and image creation. (Unfortunately, with the exception of a few RHCE's, it's an entirely M$ shop). At the end of summer, I will begin my junior year in high school, which promises to be busy. However, I think I will be able to donate about 3-4 hours a week to the project. My entire "FOSS career" has been self-motivated and self-taught, and hope to continue that with the infrastrcuture project. I'm located in Middle America, Central Standard Time. My IRC nick is jpwdsm, and I'm on XMPP as jason@xxxxxxxxxxx Sorry if that was a little long winded :) Thanks, Jason Walsh _______________________________________________ Fedora-infrastructure-list mailing list Fedora-infrastructure-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-infrastructure-list
