User:Dthomasdigital

David Thomas

I'm currently the information technology specialist manager for the Metropolitan Court for the State of New Mexico and President and Chairman of the Board of the New Mexico Linux Corporation. I also have more than 17 years of experience in the technology support field and have held many titles from systems administrator to network engineer. I have a few technical certifications which include; Help Desk Analyst Certification (HDA), Help Desk Manager Certification (HDM), and I'm Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Foundations Certified in IT service management. I've been an active member of the Help Desk Institute (HDI) since 2005. In 2007 I've started with whats been a goal of mine for years and that's speaking at various conferences and symposiums.

Contact

• Email: dthomasdigital@gmail.com
• IRC: My freenode IRC name: dthomasdigital Channels I hang out in on freenode: #newmexicolinuxfest #nmosug #ubuntu-us-nm #opensuse-marketing #fedora-ambassadors
• GPG key: 47F6661F
• Fedora Account: Dthomasdigital
• Web Page: dthomasdigital

Activities within Fedora and the Greater Linux Community

• Approved fedora ambassador on 2009-03-19 21:21 UTC
• Organized the 2007, 2008, and the upcoming 2009 Albuquerque Software Freedom day. For 2009 we have added another location Portales Software Freedom Day
• Organized the 2009 New Mexico LinuxFest scheduled for November 14, 2009. Check out all the fedora stuff at the New Mexico LinuxFest
• President and Chairman of the Board for the New Mexico Linux Corporation - A 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation registered in the state of New Mexico to promote the education of Linux and Free and Open Source software.
• Active member of the: NMLUG MVLUG NMGLUG NM Ubuntu LoCo NMOSUG openSUSE Ambassadors Fedora Ambassadors
• I'm one of the experts on the the Linux Journal on-line column Ask the Experts.
• 6/6/09 I've started to gather the information including quotes to get Fedora case badges created...Update: Case Badges are in and have been delivered to inode0. Here is a picture. case badges

Conference Appearances

2009

• July 15, 2009 Albuquerque, NM - Ignite New Mexico - Ignite is a speaking event, designed to be a night of fast pace fun presentations. Each presenter gets 20 slides which will automatically advance every 15 seconds. I'll be helping run the event as well as have a table set up for disk distribution and information.

• April 29, 2009 Santa Fe, NM - Ignite Santa Fe - Ignite is a speaking event, designed to be a night of fast pace fun presentations. Each presenter gets 20 slides which will automatically advance every 15 seconds. We are current planning our first Ignite Santa Fe! My Talk will be about what it takes to get a non-profit of the ground ground and how to use it to support your cause. In my case promoting open source software.

• April 16, 2009 Las Cruces, NM - Southwest Regional Technology Symposium - My talk will be about Growing New Mexico's Open Source Communities: Demand for open source software is at it's greatest than it has been since Linux, Open Office, and a slew of other applications appeared over a decade ago. A slowing economy and the emergence of low cost "Net" book computers have fueled this demand. This talk will be about the state of Open Source software, the communities that exist, and the amount of support one can expect when moving from propriority software to Open Source.

• January 17, 2009 Albuquerque, NM - New Mexico Media Industry Mix - A conference for New Mexico Media includes filmmakers, game developers, animators, educators, designers, musicians, technology developers - and more. Talking about Linux and the community that makes it strong. What a great conference Had no idea what to expect, but now I do. The future for new media is alive and well in New Mexico. I talked about two subjects on two different panels. How to build virtual communities and the Future of Open Source in New Mexico.

2008

• March 9-12, 2008 Dallas, TX - HDI Conference & Expo - Know It's Broke Before Your Customers Do practical use of Open Source. The HDI presentation went very well, lots of questions and I hope good answers I was very successful in distributing Linux disk, nagios guides and promoting Open Source Software in general. Can't wait till next year.

• October 29-31 2008 Albuquerque, NM - State of New Mexico Judicial Conference - Moving Forward The Court a new technology.

2007

• October 18-19 2007 Albuquerque, NM - State of New Mexico Judicial Conference - New Technology in the Courts.

Goals

• Still working on my Linux LPI level 1 certification, with luck 2009 will be my year.
• Hope to have a very successful GNU/LinuxFest in 2009.
• Plan to Move The New Mexico Linux Corporation forward and make it a model for others to follow in support of GNU/Linux and Free Software initiatives.
• Become a clearing house for the various LUG's in the State of New Mexico to help increase communications and move the dominant distributions further into the main stream.
• Bring some much needed GNU/Linux events to the New Mexico area.