User:Nickth

Nick Thom
Personal information
Location:	Athens, Greece
Birthday:	1976
Homepage:	nicktux.com
E-mail:	nickth@fedoraproject.org
GPG key:	D7CCB465 ​
Fedora-specific information
FAS name:	nickth
Fedora e-mail:	nickth@fedoraproject.org
Fedora homepage:	nickth.fedorapeople.org

Nick Thom

Greetings.

My name is Nick S. Thom. and I live in Greece/Athens I'm involved in Linux since 2010, participating at various projects trying to keep my contribution in Open Source, significant and sustained.

Discovering the "real" Fedora

• I discovered the real Fedora almost recently. I knew about the distribution and the community, but until recently it was running on a virtual machine only. Since version 20 (and from the day one it was released), I have installed it on a mechanical hard drive that I have, mostly because I wanted to see the behavior of the system on a real hardware (and not on a virtual one). As I was seeing, learning and discovering the "real" Fedora, what impressed me more, was the speed and stability (as opposed on what I've heard or read about!).

• Last but not least, what also impressed me was this, I can say rigorous, principle about the Open Source software and content. The four foundations was the first page I did read, on wiki.

Activities within Fedora

Ask Fedora

• Currently participating in Ask Fedora helping users solving various problems, both on English and Greek sections.

• I'm also a Forum moderator helping this community driven project to function as well as possible.

Blog about Fedora

• I have set up a blog dedicated to Fedora, in the site/area that was offered to me for free by the Fedora Project. The articles are written in Greek language and only the titles and a brief summary is written in English. The blog can be found here.

Social Media

• Participating on various social media, talking about Fedora with other folks and calling new members to join. Mostly on Google Plus Community.

Videos

• Making some Videos about Fedora. Tutorials mostly. All of the videos are in Greek language (sorry English listeners) and you can track them at my Youtube channel, also at Internet Archive.

Updates Testing

• Participating testing various packages, before they pushed on stable repository. Thereby, I'm becoming a part of the Fedora testers and Quality Assurance group. You will find my comments and karma points at Fedora's testing system.

Wiki Localization

• Translating various Wiki pages, the ones I consider most important. You can see all of my work on Wiki, by visiting this page.

Contribution Commitment

Contribution commitment is a very difficult matter, when it comes to devote your time. In the past I have devoted much time contributing at various FLOSS projects/distributions (Ubuntu, Arch Linux...etc) and I continue on some of them.

Usually, I'm picking what I want to work on, and I dedicate my self there.

IRC

You can find me on irc.freenode.net as NickTh, usually on channels: #fedora-ask , #fedora-qa, and #fedora-el (if I'm marked as being away, don't hesitate to ping me).

Events

2014

• Virtually attended at Flock 2014
• Physically attended at Fedora_Weekend_Greece_2014

Other Contacts

You can also find me at the following social media:

• Google Plus
• Librenet
• Gravatar

Favorite Quote

You have a dollar.

I have a dollar.

We swap.

Now you have my dollar.

We are no better off.

• • •

You have an idea.

I have an idea.

We swap.

Now you have two ideas.

And I have two ideas.

• • •

That’s the difference.