Welcome our new ambassador From USA

29 Apr 2011

      Hi ambassadors
all people writing to Ambassadors Welcome Team to apply for
ambassadors are really excited, some people though are even more
excited(if that is possible).
Johan Cabrera is one of them and my 'spider-sense' that we are going
to see great things happening to Florida with openSUSE.
So all please give a worm welcome our new ambassador from United
States. Below you can learn more about him and his relationship with
openSUSE as he told us in his own words.

* What have you done already for openSUSE?

Up to date I have helped give people and companies more exposure to openSUSE
and its advantages since I started using it some years ago. During my time
as a student in the University of Habana, Cuba, I became a Systems
Administrator and was charged with transitioning the network from a Windows
Server based infrastructure to Linux, which allowed me to introduce them to
openSUSE, being that the distro of my choice for the servers and some client
boxes. Since I started using openSUSE I have been a strong promoter and have
spread the word about its advantages, including promoting it in my current
hosting company, Mojohost (Easy Online Solutions - mojohost.com) in my role
as Linux Systems Administrator.

* What are your plans for promoting openSUSE? Please tell us what you
 want to do the next 6 months.

I have been looking for a more formal and resourceful way to promote what I
consider is the most powerful Linux distribution, and from my current
position as a Systems Administrator in South Florida, with multiple contacts
in the industry and working in one of the main nodes in the region (The NAP
of The Americas in Downtown Miami) I plan to organize new events and
conferences regarding FOSS and openSUSE in specific and the advantages it
presents for companies and individuals alike. I also own my own server and
domains and can dedicate these resources to support and organize the
openSUSE community in Florida, USA. This might be a great success since
currently Florida does not count with a more organized local community as
other states do, so there is a lot of work that can be done. I'm also
bilingual, so I can contribute in any translation to and from Spanish needed
and also allows me to reach the Spanish-speaking community down here in
Florida.

* Are you ready to start promoting openSUSE?

Like I stated above, I'm ready, I have some important resources available
and I'm more than willing to start.

* What do you think is the best kept secret of openSUSE?

I believe that many users do not realize the true power and versatility of
openSUSE, to put some simple examples: openSUSE is a great Server
distribution but at the same time is equally powerful and resourceful as a
desktop OS, furthermore, it has the best hardware support I have ever seen
in any Linux distro! It is unbelievable the amount of hardware that is
supported straight out of the box and if it's not, it probably can be
supported with a little work or with a third-party driver; this leaves many
other distros as they were in the stone age. The package management is
incredibly powerful as well as the amount of very good application available
while keeping stability AND the latest possible versions of it; this is way
more than many other distributions can offer, I sometimes can't believe how
fast I can have something setup on openSUSE that would take me quite some
work and time on CentOS or RedHat, it is sad that many administrators and
companies are yet ignorant of these facts.

* Why do you love to do this?

This is part of my everyday work, and openSUSE has always been my
distribution of choice and the one that has helped me with the most
difficult jobs, I'm a big fan of it, even my workstation has a big openSUSE
logo that I made by myself stuck to it! And guess what is the wallpaper on
my computers and my phone? When I find such a good tool for my line of work,
I just which that I could share it with everybody and that everybody could
use it and appreciate it like I do.

* How did you start with with Linux/openSUSE? What is your level of
 experience?

I started working with openSUSE since I was in middle school, on my desktop
computer, using old 486 Intel processors when it was still "SuSE", even back
then, it proved how powerful it could be even on such an old PC and with
very low resources at my disposal (I was living in Cuba, so spare parts and
financial resources were basically non-existent). Ever since, all computers
on my possession use openSUSE (currently my workstations, my laptop and my
server). From working on it in a desktop environment I started using it in
my Systems Administrator role for servers in the University and have not
stopped using it for both roles ever since, so I could say I have 12+ years
working with it and extensive experience on its use. I'm currently training
(and refreshing knowledge) on C language developing and I plan to start
contributing to openSUSE on the development side soon.

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