Welcome to our first Australian ambassador
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 -- http://opensuse.gr http://amb.opensuse.gr http://own.opensuse.gr http://warlordfff.tk me I am not me ------- Time travel is possible, you just need to know the right aliens -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help@opensuse.org
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@gmail.com>:
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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On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 7:18 AM, George Bratsos <bratsaki@gmail.com> 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@gmail.com>:
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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Hi people I would like all to give a warm welcome to our first Australian ambassador Tim Serong.
Welcome Tim. Kostas, However, I think he is not the first ambassador. Helen South is from Australia. Captain Magnus is also from the land of Kangaroo. I surely remember seeing someone else also from Oz :-) Sankar http://psankar.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help@opensuse.org
2011/2/9 Sankar P <psankar@novell.com>:
Hi people I would like all to give a warm welcome to our first Australian ambassador Tim Serong.
Welcome Tim.
Kostas, However, I think he is not the first ambassador. Helen South is from Australia. Captain Magnus is also from the land of Kangaroo. I surely remember seeing someone else also from Oz :-)
I thought the same but according to this list(http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassadors_list) he is ;-). I know AJ some time ago erased some ambassadors so maybe those you mention belong to that category. Helen South is not an ambassador AFAIK...
Sankar http://psankar.blogspot.com
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Sankar P