My name is Mike and I have been using Linux for about a year.  I am currently going to DeVry for Digital Forensics as well as working full time and taking care of my daughter.  I would love to get more involved with the community, but I think it will have to wait until I'm done with school, however I would be interested in going to LoCo meetings out in the burbs or taking a ride down town.  I am also currently trying to get into the IT field doing somthing while I finish my degree, so please let me know if you have any open entry level positions. Michael Wilson <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Richard Johnson <<a href="mailto:nixternal@kubuntu.org">nixternal@kubuntu.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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 (<a href="http://www.cleversafe.com" target="_blank">http://www.cleversafe.com</a> and <a href="http://www.cleversafe.org" target="_blank">http://www.cleversafe.org</a> 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:        * <a href="mailto:nixternal@ubuntu.com">nixternal@ubuntu.com</a>        * <a href="mailto:nixternal@kubuntu.org">nixternal@kubuntu.org</a>        # <a href="mailto:rjohnson@kde.org">rjohnson@kde.org</a> 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 <a href="mailto:nixternal@kubuntu.org">nixternal@kubuntu.org</a> GPG: 2E2C0124 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJAI7sPsmjnS4sASQRAm05AKCAE/G32NVaYyMb⸕楦⏈은⠴� p9F2T0xi2hys8iFmLXp4toU= =xsX1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Ubuntu-us-chicago mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-us-chicago@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-us-chicago@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-chicago" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-chicago</a> </blockquote></div>