Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-ambassadors (64 mails)

[Chuck Payne <terrorpup@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 7:18 AM, George Bratsos <bratsaki@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Welcome Tim!
> It's good to have an ambassador from Australia.! Anything you want do
> not hesitate to share it with us!!!
>
> Have fun!!!
>
>
> 2011/2/7 Kostas Koudaras <warlordfff@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > Hi people
> > I would like all to give a warm welcome to our first Australian
> > ambassador Tim Serong.
> > Below you can learn more about him and his relationship with openSUSE.
> > * What have you done already for openSUSE?
> >
> > On the software front, I got the packages in network:ha-clustering and
> > network:ha-clustering:Factory up-to-date and submitted for the
> > openSUSE 11.3 release (prior to that, those packages hadn't seen any
> > updates for some time).  Hopefully I still have enough time for
> > another update there for 11.4, and can provide more regular updates
> > going forwards.
> >
> > On the promotion front, I was at LCA 2011 two weeks ago, where I met
> > Jos Poortvliet and manned the openSUSE booth at open day with him.
> >
> > * What are your plans for promoting openSUSE? Please tell us what you
> > want to do the next 6 months.
> >
> > - Distribute DVDs to a couple of local Linux user groups (I have some
> > left over that Jos brought with him to LCA which I can use
> > immediately).
> > - See if I can give a talk about SUSE Studio at one of the local
> > SAGE-AU (System Administrators Guild of Australia) monthly meetings,
> > and also at the SAGE-AU national conference in September.
> > - Likewise, see if I can give a talk about the openSUSE Build Service
> > at OSDC later in the year (http://osdc.com.au/)
> >
> > * Are you ready to start promoting openSUSE?
> >
> > I sure hope so :)
> >
> > * What do you think is the best kept secret of openSUSE?
> >
> > Off the top of my head:
> >
> >  - It "just works" on my ThinkPad.
> >  - Supporting/related infrastructure (OBS, SUSE Studio).
> >  - zypper
> >  - YaST is actually good (there has apparently been some persistent
> > mythology around YaST breaking manually edited configuration in older
> > releases).
> >  - Very neat packaging of ruby gems, if you're into Ruby.
> >
> > * Why do you love to do this?
> >
> > Because I enjoy seeing people use software that I helped to create,
> > especially if they're happy about it.  And if not, I'd like to find
> > out why not, so we can fix it.
> >
> > * How did you start with with Linux/openSUSE? What is your level of 
> > experience?
> >
> > I started using Linux some time in the late 1990s.  My first distro
> > was Slackware, which I chose over RedHat because Slackware forced me
> > to learn more in order to build a running system.  I've been running
> > Linux servers of one flavour or another (RedHat, Fedora, Gentoo,
> > Debian, Ubuntu, SLES, openSUSE) ever since, and have been using Linux
> > more or less exclusively on my desktop and laptop since about 2005.  I
> > started using openSUSE shortly thereafter, around about the 10.0 or
> > 10.1 release.  I spend most of my time now hacking on the various
> > packages that make up the SLE High Availability Extension.
> >
> >
> > Name: Tim Serong
> > Country: Australia
> > Region: Tasmania
> > City: Hobart
> > User Page: http://en.opensuse.org/User:Tserong
> >
> >
> >
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