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Grant Bowman

I'm relatively new to the Fedora community. I began using Unix in 1989 and have been using Linux since 1994 when I co-founded Silicon Valley Public Access Link (SV-PAL or www.svpal.org), a FreeNet for Santa Clara County that is still a self-sustaining not for profit ISP today. I have contributed bugs and patches to several open source software projects as I have "scratched my own itch." I was a registered Debian Developer but package maintenance is not something I developed a passion for. I was a full time employee with the US branch of SuSE from 1999 to 2001 before Novell entered the picture.

I am a Fedora Ambassador. I have given out many Fedora CDs at Linux User Groups (LUGs) and generally advocate for free software in the many LUGs I visit in California.
Working on DIY Sleeve
I run Fedora on my OLPC XO-1 and have been attending the OLPC San Francisco meetings.
My plans and ideas will evolve as I learn where I can best contribute.

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 == Activities within Fedora ==
-* I run Fedora on my OLPC XO-1 and have been attending the [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_San_Francisco OLPC San Francisco] meetings. I have given out Fedora CDs I created at Linux User Groups (LUGs) and generally [[user:Grantbow/Advocacy|advocate]] for free software in the many LUGs I visit in California.  I am looking forward to becoming a Fedora Ambassador.
+* I am a [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors Fedora Ambassador].   I have given out many Fedora CDs at Linux User Groups (LUGs) and generally [[user:Grantbow/Advocacy|advocate]] for free software in the many LUGs I visit in California.
 * Working on [[user:Grantbow/DiySleeve|DIY Sleeve]]
+* I run Fedora on my OLPC XO-1 and have been attending the [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_San_Francisco OLPC San Francisco] meetings.
 * My plans and ideas will evolve as I learn where I can best contribute.