Greetings from a South African Expat Living in Canada (Tanieth Dale)

Corey Burger corey.burger at gmail.com
Sat Jun 10 02:20:28 UTC 2006


On 6/9/06, Dale, Tanieth <tanieth.dale at usask.ca> wrote:
>
>
> Greetings
>
> With all the Ubuntu Buzz and the creation of Ubuntu Canada, I felt it mostly
> appropriate to jump on the band wagon.
>
> Introduction
>     I was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. Acquired my education in
> Pretoria, South Africa and transferred to the USA about a year after
> graduating. Worked as a Programmer Analyst for a year. Met a handsome
> Canadian, moved to Canada, got married and it is now 7 years later. (gosh)
>
> I've been using Ubuntu for the past year and a half and absolutely love it.
>
> Before my current position at the University of Saskatchewan, I was a
> systems administrator for a college up north. Due to budget constraints, we
> were encouraged to be creative and proved extremely successful in
> implementing Linux Servers (Fedora Core) that served the needs for shared
> printing and file storage along with access to the internet for staff and
> faculty. The endless possibilities of LTSP allowed us to offer each and
> every student on campus access to the internet, word processing,
> spreadsheets, presentation software, file storage and printing capacity. In
> a rural community where high-speed internet was only just starting to be
> introduced, the opportunities that were created for the students were
> endless. The internet is both an amazing and powerful resource that truly
> does open up the world to people, and embracing the potential of open source
> for communities, is a pure gift in my mind.
>
>
> I am eager to join in the discussions and learn more from others, whilst
> hopefully contributing towards the goals of this team.
>
> Regards,
> Tanieth
> aka Tekchic ;)

Welcome Tanieth,

Yet more South Africans exiled to the wilds of Sask, eh? We don't
really have any current plans right now, except promote Ubuntu in
Canada. I would love to hear ideas on how you think that best can be
done.

Cheers,

Corey
Nominal leader of the cat herd known as Ubuntu Canada




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