[Ubuntu Chicago] Introduce Yourself

Thu Oct 23 19:22:28 BST 2008

Wally Valters, mid 40's, I live and work in the NW suburbs for Hewitt (
http://www.hewitt.com/) as a security auditor / Incident handler.  I have
been using Unix / Linux for a decade or so , Ubuntu for a little over  a
year.  Been to a few meetings in the past out in DuPage.

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Kevin Harriss <special.kevin at gmail.com>wrote:

> My name is Kevin Harriss, but most people know me as specialKevin.  I
> am 23 years old and I live in Bridgeport, White Sox Represent.  I work
> downtown for the Institute of Design (http://id.iit.edu), which is the
> design grad school for IIT.  I am the IT Administrator and both the
> school and myself embrace the open source community.  We have hosted
> meetings for the Chicago LUG, Ubuntu Chicago and LUNI in the past.  As
> the IT Administrator I am responsible for maintain our servers and
> desktop along with all other equipment to make the IT infrastructure
> function.  We currently use Ubuntu server and Solaris on our server,
> but unforntunally we are a design school so all the desktops are
> Windows or Macs.
>
> I am not an Ubuntu Member, however I have been using Ubuntu on the job
> for over a year and used it off and on on my personal computer before
> I got hired.  Most of my experience with Ubuntu is focused on the
> server environment.  I have been using linux since 2003 when I when to
> college.  I started off with gentoo then moved to Ubuntu and now I am
> using Foresight.  I am Foresight developer and the Marketing Team
> Leader for Foresight.  These duties include me going to various open
> source conferences and working the Foresight booth or giving a talk.
> If you have attending an open source conference (Flourish, SCALE, Ohio
> LinuxFest, BARcamp, LinuxWorld) you might have seen/met me before if
> not I look forward to meeting you at Ubuntu Chicago meetings.  Other
> than Foresight work I am very active in the technology community, I
> run the Chicago GNU/Linux User Group (ChiGLUG) and the Chicago GNOME
> User Group.  I am also an organizer for BARcamp Chicago.
>
> If you would like to contact me you can email me at the following:
>
> special.kevin at gmail.com
> specialkevin at foresightlinux.org
>
> If you would prefer to call me, I can be reached at 618.604.3236.
> However, just like Rich if you are not in my address book I might
> screen your call so leave a message or send me a text message
> introducing yourself.
>
> Kevin Harriss
>
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Richard Johnson <nixternal at kubuntu.org>
> wrote:
> > Seeing as a lot of new members have been joining this list and watching
> > silently from the sidelines, I thought it would be nice to have everyone
> > introduce yourself and let us know who you are and what you would like
> > to see with the LoCo team here in Chicago.
> >
> > My name is Rich Johnson, 34 years old, live in the burbs and work in the
> > city for an open source storage solution called Cleversafe
> > (http://www.cleversafe.com and http://www.cleversafe.org for our open
> > source web site). At Cleversafe I am the 'Linux Packaging and
> > Development Engineer' which means I develop and maintain our custom
> > Linux distribution for our appliances. Unfortunately it is CentOS based
> > but I am hoping that one day it is Ubuntu based.
> >
> > I have been a member of the Ubuntu community for almost 4 years now. I
> > am a MOTU (Master Of The Universe), a Core Developers, and a member of
> > the Kubuntu, MOTU, and Community Councils. I am also the community
> > manager for the Kubuntu project under Ubuntu. Besides working on the
> > Ubuntu project I also am a core developer for the KDE project. One of my
> > hobbies in open source and free software is documentation, so if you are
> > reading system documentation for numerous Linux distros or desktop
> > environments, you may have saw my name. I am also one of the authors for
> > the Official Ubuntu Book (3rd. Ed.) and working on a couple of other
> > publishings as well that deal with the Linux world. You might also
> > catching me working on Debian KDE as well since I am one of the
> > contributing members for the Debian KDE team (though I haven't done all
> > that much of late due to personal life).
> >
> > OK, that's enough about me, I don't want to bore you with more, so let
> > us know who you are now :)
> >
> > If you would like to email me, you can email me at any of the following
> > addresses:
> >
> >        * nixternal at ubuntu.com
> >        * nixternal at kubuntu.org
> >        # rjohnson at kde.org
> >
> > If you would like to contact me by phone, my number is +1 630 445 3860.
> > If I don't know your number off hand or you aren't in my address book, I
> > may screen your call, so please leave a message if you do call. Thanks!
> >
> > --
> > Rich Johnson
> > nixternal at kubuntu.org
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> >
> >
>
>
>
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> - Kevin Harriss
> - http://www.specialkevin.com
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