Re: Meeting Agenda Item: Introduction Fraser Gutteridge

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On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:53:27 -0500 (EST)
Fraser Gutteridge <blue@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> Greetings to the Fedora Infrastructure team,
> 
>  	Just wanted to introduce myself and say thanks for
> maintaining such a nice distro of Linux for so long. We've been using
> Fedora as the standard distro on many of our desktop machines at the
> University of Delaware since approximately mid-2005 (Fedora Core 4!).
> 
>  	I'm interested in becoming involved with the 
> development/maintenance of the Fedora Project. I've been working with 
> Linux and Unix-like environments for approximately twelve years,
> mostly Fedora, CentOS, RedHat Enterprise and Solaris. Although I have
> a lot of knowledge in terms of system and network administration,
> I've always wanted to learn more about the Linux kernel and how
> device drivers etc. are written.
> 
>  	I currently work on a thirteen-man team for the University
> of Delaware, assisting them in maintaining a large number of Unix and
> Linux servers as well as a large switch and router infrastructure. My
> primary task of late has been managing a VMware cluster consisting of
> twelve physical nodes and approximately seventy virtual machines. I
> am well-versed in the following programming and scripting languages:
> C, C++, Perl, Python, Java, Lisp, PHP and some experience with x86
> assembly. I have a good understanding of the following software:
> Apache httpd, Apache Tomcat, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle PL/SQL,
> OpenLDAP, OpenSSL, Shibboleth IdP and SP. My operating system
> experience ranges from various distros of Linux to Solaris, VMware
> ESX, Macintosh OS X and most flavors of Windows.
> 
>  	I would be interested in working on any GUI requirements you
> may have (I have used GTK+ 2 and 3 for many years), as well as
> assisting with any networking, security or system administration
> tasks that are pending. If I can learn some of the ins and outs of
> the Linux kernel while doing this, so much the better. :)
> 
>  	If anybody has any questions, I can be found on IRC as
> 'udelblue'. I look forward to contributing if you need the help.

Welcome!

If you've not already, please take a look at 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/GettingStarted

and do join us on #fedora-admin on irc.freenode.net and we can get you
setup further then. 

kevin

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