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= Sandro Mathys = | = Sandro "red" Mathys = | ||
I just set up this wiki page. Drop me a line if you have suggestions on how I could improve it. Also, I'm aware that my English skills are far from perfect - you are very welcome to help me if there's something wrong. | I just set up this wiki page. Drop me a line if you have suggestions on how I could improve it. Also, I'm aware that my English skills are far from perfect - you are very welcome to help me if there's something wrong. | ||
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== About myself == | == About myself == | ||
[[Image:SandroMathys_SandroMathys-head.png|Sandro Mathys|right]] | |||
* '''Name''': Sandro Mathys (I don't like to be called by those very much, though - please use the short form of my nickname if possible). | * '''Name''': Sandro Mathys (I don't like to be called by those very much, though - please use the short form of my nickname if possible). | ||
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=== Contact === | === Contact === | ||
* '''Email''': [ | * '''Email''': [mailto:red@fedoraproject.org red@fedoraproject.org] | ||
* '''GPG key''': 580554550E6516E8 | * '''GPG key''': 580554550E6516E8 | ||
* '''Fedora Account''': red | * '''Fedora Account System''': red | ||
* '''IRC''': red_alert on freenode (e.g. #fedora-de, #fedora-mktg, #fedora). Feel free to query me without asking first. I might be AFK though. | * '''IRC''': red_alert on freenode (e.g. #fedora-de, #fedora-mktg, #fedora). Feel free to query me without asking first. I might be AFK though. | ||
* '''Jabber''': red_alert@swissjabber.ch (no e-mails!) | * '''Jabber''': red_alert@swissjabber.ch (no e-mails!) | ||
* '''Skype''': red_alert (no calls without approval!) | * '''Skype''': red_alert (no calls without approval!) | ||
* '''Blog''': [http://sandro-mathys.ch/] | * '''Blog''': [http://blog.sandro-mathys.ch/ blog.sandro-mathys.ch] | ||
=== Fedora and I === | === Fedora and I === | ||
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* Trying to give as much support as possible (over IRC and offline) | * Trying to give as much support as possible (over IRC and offline) | ||
* Spread the word about Fedora | * Spread the word about Fedora | ||
* | * Get some feedback about Fedora | ||
=== Events === | === Events === | ||
List of events I attended or plan to attend in future. | List of events I attended or plan to attend in future. | ||
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Revision as of 12:50, 26 May 2008
Sandro "red" Mathys
I just set up this wiki page. Drop me a line if you have suggestions on how I could improve it. Also, I'm aware that my English skills are far from perfect - you are very welcome to help me if there's something wrong.
About myself
- Name: Sandro Mathys (I don't like to be called by those very much, though - please use the short form of my nickname if possible).
- Nickname: red_alert (say 'red' for short)
- Location: Bern , Switzerland
- Time zone: CET (UTC +01:00) and CEST (UTC +02:00) during summers.
- Year of birth: 1985
- Languages: English, German (and Swiss-German, which happens to be my mother tongue - but I'll never use that unless communicating verbal)
- Education: Graduate Engineer on ICT
- Profession: (JEE) Software Engineer at Noser Engineering AG near Bern, Switzerland
Contact
- Email: red@fedoraproject.org
- GPG key: 580554550E6516E8
- Fedora Account System: red
- IRC: red_alert on freenode (e.g. #fedora-de, #fedora-mktg, #fedora). Feel free to query me without asking first. I might be AFK though.
- Jabber: red_alert@swissjabber.ch (no e-mails!)
- Skype: red_alert (no calls without approval!)
- Blog: blog.sandro-mathys.ch
Fedora and I
I started to get in touch with Linux back in 1999 and started to really use it about one year later. While I got my first experience with Suse 6.0, I soon tried several other distributions. Among all tested, I really loved red hat linux 6.2. It took me another year to finally make the change from Microsoft Windows to (Red Hat) Linux - still in dual boot, though. With the release of Red Hat Linux 7.3 I got rid of the Windows Partition and since then I'm using nothing but Red Hat Linux and later on Fedora on my own workstations as well as my own servers. I never stopped to have a look at new distributions or new releases of existing distributions - but there's never been one I even only liked half as much as Fedora (and Kubuntu being the only other distribution I could imagine to use on a workstation for myself).
KDE and I
When I first used a Linux Distribution - as portrayed above - it had a KDE desktop. At that time, KDE was pretty ugly - even Windows 98 was more beautiful. Anyway, I didn't know many others and everthing else looked even worse. I admit, that was one reason that kept me using Windows. But the different window managers and desktop environments have evolved, luckily. I still use KDE as of today. Maybe it's just because I got used to it over the years, but I think it fits me best. I'm looking forward to KDE 4 for ages already, btw ;)
Gnome is nice as well, but in my very humble opinion it's not as user friendly as KDE. Of course anyone else could very well feel different about that point.
I also like XFCE4 (actually it's the one I use if KDE is a overkill) but it doesn't have the features (I feel) I need for my daily business. Of course I can't really blame XFCE4 for this since being quite small and only having the important features is the goal of this project.
Activities within Fedora
- Fedora Ambassador for Switzerland, DACH and EMEA
- Just joined the Marketing group, being not too active nor passive
- Founder and administrator/moderator of the Fedora Project Group on XING
- Trying to give as much support as possible (over IRC and offline)
- Spread the word about Fedora
- Get some feedback about Fedora
Events
List of events I attended or plan to attend in future.
Future events
- FAD LinuxTag 2008 in Berlin, Germany
- LinuxTag 2008 in Berlin, Germany
- FUDCon LinuxTag 2008 in Berlin, Germany
- OpenExpo 2008 in Winterthur/Zurich, Switzerland
Passed events
- LinuxTag 2007 in Berlin, Germany
- FAD LinuxTag 2007 in Berlin, Germany
- OpenExpo 2007 in Zurich, Switzerland
- FAD EMEA 2007 in Rheinfelden, Germany
- OpenExpo 2008 in Berne, Switzerland