User:Fab

Fabian Affolter

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Fabian Affolter

My Name is Fabian Affolter and I'm living in Berne/Switzerland. Formerly I was a Red Hat Linux 7/8/9 user but since the first release of Fedora Core I changed my mind and use this wonderful "thing" on several systems. My first system was a Amiga 2000 and my first contact with Linux was SUSE Linux 4.4 :-). After I graduated from school I entered the mechanical engineering sector. But during all those years I was still interested and involved in the information technology area. Today my areas of interest are computer aided design (CAD), computer algebra system (CAS), provisioning, automatic configuration management, version control systems, software packaging, and micro controllers. In my spare time I like hiking in the Swiss mountains and to read on rainy days.

In the past several years I was engaged in the citizen wireless LAN sector and the wireless LAN communities at Berne. I wrote some articles for the now dead German Fedora wiki and some articles for IT-related magazines in Switzerland about Wireless LAN.

Some other project where I'm involved...

• Home Assistant - Python-based home automation
• NixOS

A long time ago I thought that it's time to give something back to the Fedora Community and so I have decided to become a more active human in this project. In June 2006 I joined the Ambassadors project to promote Fedora during events unfortunately a long time I was the first and only Swiss ambassador. But now the Ambassadors Project is growing dead...later I started with packaging.

Nowadays my work is limited to maintaining some of my packages as spare time allows.

Keep in mind that FAST was never one of the 4-Fs and the current structure and processes inside the Fedora Project are no more allowing to move a high speed.

more personal stuff

• Location: Berne or Bern, Switzerland or Schweiz
• Time zone : UTC +01:00 (CET) or UTC +02:00 (CEST)
• Languages : German (it's more Swiss German), English, and a little French
• Profession : Senior Engineer, B.Sc. ME and B.Sc. CS Berne University of Applied Sciences - Engineering and Information Technology

Contact

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Mentors

• Postal address :

ask for the street

CH-3000 Bern

Switzerland

• Blog : My blog (be aware...some parts are in German)
• Website: fabian-affolter.ch
• Fedora People: fab.fedorapeople.org
• identi.ca: https://identi.ca/fab
• Email: fab AT fedoraproject DOT org
• GPG : 0x36A4397F or PGP Public Key Block

to import my gpg-key:

    $ gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key 0x36A4397F

• Jabber : fab AT swissjabber DOT org
• IRC : faffolter (before 2015 I often used fabian_a)
• Fedora Account : fab

Activities within Fedora

Events

2021

• Due to the current situation I will not attend any event.

2020

• Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2020 at Chemnitz, Germany -- Event was cancelled (COVID-19)

2019

• Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2019 at Chemnitz, Germany -- Report

2018

• Flock 2018 at Dresden, Germany
• Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2018 at Chemnitz, Germany -- Report
• nullcon 2018 at Goa, India -- Report

2017

• Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2017 at Chemnitz, Germany -- Report
• RPM packaging, I18n, L10n, and other workshops at Amrita University, India -- Report
• nullcon 2017 at Goa, India -- Report

2016

• Flock at Krakow, Poland -- Report
• Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2016 at Chemnitz, Germany -- Report

2015

• Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2015 at Chemnitz, Germany -- Report

2014

• FAD Rheinland 2014 at Leverkusen, Germany
• LinuxDay 2014 at Dornbirn, Austria -- Short report
• Flock 2014 at Prague, Czech Republic -- A not so short report
• Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2014 at Chemnitz, Germany -- Report

2013

• Developer Conference 2013 at Brno, Czech Republic
• Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2013 at Chemnitz, Germany -- Report
• Tibetan L10n effort at Dharamsala, India -- Report
• FSL Test Bench at null meeting at Delhi, India -- Blog post
• LinuxDay 2013 at Dornbirn, Austria
• FAD EMEA at Rheinfelden, Germany

2012

• Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2012 at Chemnitz, Germany
• FUDCon EMEA at Paris, France
• LinuxDay 2012 at Dornbirn, Austria
• FAD EMEA 2012 at Rheinfelden, Germany

2011

• FUDCon EMEA at Milan, Italy
• Open Source Software an Schulen at Zurich, Switzerland
• Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2011 at Chemnitz, Germany -- Full Report in German, 1st impression
• FOSDEM 2011 at Brussels, Belgium
• FAD FOSDEM 2011 at Brussels, Belgium -- some thoughts

2010

• FAD EMEA 2010 at Rheinfelden, Germany
• FUDCon Zurich 2010 at Zurich, Switzerland -- Saturday
• FrOSCamp Zurich 2010 at Zurich, Switzerland
• Linuxwochen Wien 2010 at Vienna, Austria -- Day 0, Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3
• OpenExpo 2010 at Berne, Switzerland -- report

2009

• LinuxDay 2009 at Dornbirn, Austria -- Short report
• FAD EMEA 2009 at Rheinfelden, Germany
• OpenExpo 2009 Zurich at Winterthur, Switzerland -- Day 0, Day 1 and Day 2
• LinuxTag 2009 at Berlin, Germany
• FUDCon LinuxTag 2009 at Berlin, Germany -- Get the slides of my talks
• FAD Rheinfelden May 2009 at Rheinfelden, Germany
• OpenExpo 2009 Berne at Berne, Switzerland -- Report will follow
• 1st Fedora Round Table (FRT) at Karlsruhe, Germany
• FOSDEM 2009 at Brussels, Belgium - report
• Fedora EMEA Board meeting and LinuxTag 2009 Preparation Meeting at Rheinfelden, Germany

2008

• LinuxDay 2008 at Dornbirn, Austria - report
• FAD EMEA 2008 at Basel, Switzerland
• OpenExpo 2008 at Winterthur, Switzerland - Review
• FUDCon Brno 2008 at Brno, Czech Republic - Day 0, Day 1, Day 2, Day 3 & Day 4
• FUDCon LinuxTag 2008 at Berlin, Germany
• LinuxTag 2008 at Berlin, Germany -- Day 00-1, Day 00-2, Day 01, Day 02, Day 03, Day 04 & Day 05
• FAD LinuxTag 2008 at Berlin, Germany
• Fedora EMEA Board meeting at Lörrach, Germany -- Meeting minutes
• OpenExpo 2008 Berne at Berne, Switzerland -- Day 00, Day 01 & Day 02
• FOSDEM 2008 at Brussels, Belgium - 00, 01, 02 , 03 & 04
• LinuxTag 2008 Preparation Meeting at Rheinfelden/Germany

2007

• FAD 2007 at Rheinfelden, Germany -- Meeting minutes & Report
• OpenExpo 2007 at Zurich, Switzerland - Day 01 & Day 02
• LinuxTag 2007 at Berlin, Germany -- Day 00 , Day 01 , Day 02 , Day 03, Day 04 & Day 05
• FUDCon LinuxTag 2007 at Berlin, Germany
• FAD LinuxTag 2007 at Berlin, Germany -- Details

2006

• FAD 2006 at Rheinfelden, Germany

Packaging

• check detail page

Activities

• Security Spin Lead
• Founding member of Fedora EMEA and Vice-President of this NPO (This NPO doens't longer exist due to legal issues, for more details ask Red Hat Legal.)
• Member of the Fedora Localization Steering Committee (FLSCo)
• Fedora Wiki Cleaner
• Member of Fedora Website, Fedora Ambassadors ( Fedora Marketing), Fedora Translation, Fedora Mentors, Fedora Packaging, and from time to time of Fedora Documentation
• Creator of the new monthly Ambassadors meetings
• Creator of the personal event box :-P
• Sponsor for new ambassadors and former member of the Membership Service
• L10n German Coordinator and Maintainer (still pitching to help the successor) (2007-2011)
• Member of the Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee (FAMSco) and vice-chair during 2008
• Leader of the monthly Ambassadors meeting for EMEA during 2008
• Co-Writer of the Press release for LinuxTag 2008
• Creator of the Fedora Flyer for OpenExpo 2008 Berne and OpenExpo 2008 Zurich
• Lead writer of the Press release for LinuxTag 2007
• Help at the FreeMedia Project (no longer active because in Switzerland there are enough broadband accounts)

Statistics and metrics

• Stats about the Ambassadors Project - Fedora Ambassadors Membership Administration
• General statistics

Misc

• Workbench
• Articles
• Presentations
• Wiki stuff
• Presentation Video

This user is a member of the Xfce SIG.