1. Full legal name Matthew William Berg 2. Country, City United States, Buffalo, New York 3. Profession System Administrator 4. School No college/university diploma. Training courses: SCO Non-Stop Clustering SCO Webtop Administration SCO Network Administration Hands-On With HP-UX 11.00 Hands-On With LVM And Mirrordisk/UX HP-UX System And Network Administration II HP-UX Troubleshooting Administrating Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Supporting Microsoft NT 4.0 Core Technologies Certifications: SCO Openserver ACE SCO Unixware ACE SCO Non-Stop Clustering Master ACE SCO Openserver Master ACE HP-UX Star Certified Professional LPI Level One 5. My goals in the Fedora Project Which packages? Main concern is security fixes for base system (e.g. util-linux, glibc) and server software (e.g. wu-ftpd, openssh) for Red Hat 7.2 QA? Quite definitely. I'll be reading over the threads on this over the next couple days and seeing where I can help. (I've got not only permission, but encouragment from my employer to spend my time on this.) If anyone is actively coordinating QA activity and wants to drop me a line you can either e-mail me, or catch me on IRC (I'm galt on EFnet, freenode, and gnome.org). Anything special? Nope. I'm pretty boring. I just want to avoid upgrading for no better reason than there's something newer available. :) 6. Historical qualifications Other projects? I'm part of the Ruby-GNOME2 project team, primarly working on documentation, as well as a few small patches for Ruby/GTK2. Nothing much else of consequence, though apparently Ville Laurikari is using the spec file I did for his TRE package. I also did a spec for CRM114 for Bill Yerazunis. He's holding off releasing a packaged version, however, since he wants to finish a code reorginization first. Computer languages and skills? Languages I work in regularly - perl, bourne shell, ruby, C. A large part of my job responsibility is testing and deploying updates to our platform. Even prior to the EOL we performed our own QA, which caught a few potentially bad issues (e.g. the xinetd update having a default cps limit, when the prior version had it disabled). I also maintain the majority of our own RPMS, which includes both custom software and modified versions of existing software; e.g. rebuilding the 7.2 kernel with the ips 6.10 driver, kudzu and anaconda with the related pcitable updates, and rebuilding the kickstart images. Prior to my four year tenure at this company I worked support at Ingram Micro for Openserver, Unixware, Solaris, and HP/UX. Other platforms I've had experience with include AIX, OpenBSD, BSDI, Slackware, Debian, and SuSE. Why should you trust me? Because I'm a hoopy frood and know where my towel is.
