User:Ferox

Fernando dos Santos a.k.a ferox
Personal Information
Home:	Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Fedora-specific Information
FAS-Name:	ferox
Fedora-Mail:	ferox@fedoraproject.org
Miscellaneous Information
Private Mail:	ferox@fedoraproject.org
IRC:	ferox on Libera.Chat, in:
	#solisc #fedora #fedora-br #kde kde-tutorials #software-livre
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Who am I?

Hi there! My name is Fernando dos Santos, I'm 30 years old. I live in one of the most beautiful island from Brazil called Florianópolis. I'm a cyberactivism and a free software advocate who graduated with a free software degree in 2008 at the UNISUL University in Brazil. In the year of 2010 I became an Fedora Evangelist.

Hercilio Luz Bridge, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil

History

• 2001 - My first experience with Linux;
• 2002 - Got in college (Information Systems - UNISUL University, Brazil);
• 2004-2006 - Started a research about Linux distributions;
• 2008 - Free Software degree (UNISUL University, Brazil);
• 2010 - Opened a consulting company specialized in FLOSS solutions called freehammer - consulting & associates. Was the coordinator of the SoLiSC - Congresso Catarinense de Software Livre (an free software congress).
• 2011 - Was the coordinator of FLISOL - Festival Latinoamericano de Instalação de Software Livre (an Latin American free software installfest event);
• 2012 - Became the CFO (Chief Financial Officer) at the ASoLiSC - Associação Software Livre de Santa Catarina (a nonprofit association that promote the free software).

UNISUL - Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina

Skills

• Computer System Hardware Analyst;
• Java Development;
• Project Management;
• FLOSS Platform Migration;
• Diagramming.

My Goals

Help the Fedora community grow. I also would like to work developing free software using Python (PySide) language and Qt/C++ framework.

Contact

• E-mail: fernando at solisc.org.br
• Languages: Portuguese, Spanish and English
• identi.ca: ferox