User:Biertie

Bert Desmet

Bert Desmet

Hello, my name is Bert Desmet. I am now 21years old, and I'm still going to school. I live in Belgium, Kruishoutem, near Ghent. I follow lessons at 'Kaho Sint-Lievens', a college in Ghent. Currently I'm doing second bachelor Electronics-IT. My hobbies are: listening to music (rock and electro), going to some parties, having fun with my friends. And I like programming (Java, C#, C++, C and a bit python) and scripting (PHP). I am always in for new technologies (maybe that is why I like fedora that much?).

About 8 years ago I started with Linux, when my older cousin installed Debian on an old pc. I was 13 or 14 years old, and had never heard of Linux before, but I liked it like euh, immediately. It was running with Gnome, and I still like Gnome more than KDE, but that's something personal. when Fedora core 2 was released, I switched to Fedora, and stayed with Fedora. But I have also tested other distro's like Ubuntu, Mandriva, Slackware, ..., ...

Contact

• Email: bert AT devnox DOT be
• Language: Dutch, English and a little bit French
• Location: Kruishoutem, Belgium
• Website: blog
• IRC: biertie @ freenode: fedora, fedora-ambassadors, fedora-docs, fedora-devel, fedora-meeting, fedora-social, fedora-unity
• GPG key: 0x228a0ba4427147bd
• Fedora Account: biertie

Activities within Fedora

• Ambassador
• summer coding 2009
• I've been promoting Linux and Fedora to other people since 2004.
• beta testing Fedora since fedora 8
• Developer on SMOLT
• Spins Wrangler
• organising events
  • ...

Activities outside Fedora, but related to Linux, FOSS

• Developer on sugar
• beta tester for OLPC

Events I attended

• Fosdem 2009
• Fudcon Berlin (June 2009)
• Release party Fedora 12, Antwerp(November 2009)
  • what about Fedora?
• Fudcon Toronto (December 2009)
  • how to start with fedora
  • How to Add and Remove Software in Fedora
  • Getting Started in the Fedora Community together with Yaakov Nemoy
• Fosdem 2010