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Robert Scheck

Hello, my name is Robert Scheck. Some of the Red Hat people and Fedora contributors maybe know me from my Bugzilla reports after updating my development system to Fedora Rawhide. Personally, I'm now 28 years old and of course, I've got also non-technical hobbies like meeting my friends, reading exciting books, playing billiard, swimming or just listen music.

Professionally, I'm a programmer at Linux and ERP environments working for a young and tiny IT company called ETES GmbH. Some time before I did my apprenticeship to IT specialist field systems integration at Hewlett-Packard Germany as result of my personal interest in computers started in December 1998. And in July 2004, I did my certification as Red Hat Certified Technician - during my apprenticeship, but paid by me! ;-)

Below you'll find a list of Open Source Projects I was involved in the past. At the end of this page, there are Fedora and EPEL packages listed I'm maintaining or co-maintaining since I got sponsored by Hans de Goede in June 2006. In March 2007, I got Fedora Ambassador with the initial goal to support the LinuxTag 2007 in Berlin/Germany. I'm also part of the Fedora Websites Team for translating the content of the Fedora websites into German. Currently I'm maintaining the German static websites of fedoraproject.org on my domain www.fedora.de.

With the beginning of RPM Fusion in November 2008, I started to contribute there as well. RPM Fusion is an additional repository for Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux including packages and software which can't go directly into Fedora or EPEL for different reasons. In January 2009, Joerg Simon asked me to be Fedora Community Mentor for Fedora Ambassadors around EMEA. During the Zarafa Summercamp in June 2009, I got the Zarafa Award as Best Open Source Contributor for my contributed patches to build Zarafa on bleeding edge Linux distributions. At the Zarafa Summercamp in June 2010, the Zarafa Award for the Best Community Contribution was hand over to me - for my work and efforts to get the Zarafa Groupware and Z-Push as RPM packages into Fedora and RPM Fusion which finally happened in February 2010.

Beside of that, I'm participating the RPM5 Project, which is doubtless the leading RPM project - but unluckily still refused by the Fedora Project...

Some information

IRC and Instant Messaging

  • Freenode: #fedora-devel, #fedora-de and #rpm channels with nickname rsc
  • IRCnet: #fedora.de, #redhat.de, #linux.de and #linuxger channels with nickname rsc_
  • Jabber: rsc AT jabber DOT org

Area of Interest

I've got an own 1U rack server housed in Frankfurt/Germany, which is my "remote desktop", working and development system. So there are an Apache web server (httpd), FTP server (vsftpd), OpenSSH (sshd), mail services (Sendmail, MIMEDefang & UW IMAP), Network Time Protocol synchronisation (ntpd) and SELinux, too.

As the machine is a HP ProLiant DL360 G3 server, lm_sensors unfortunately doesn't support (yet?) the used ServerWorks GC-LE chipset, which is the reason, that I've got to merge and integrate needed things myself from the closed source HP Advanced Server Management. But there's still hope for me, because a working patch supporting HP SmartArrays in smartmontools was finished in April 2006 - finally after a very long time.

For monitoring the system, I'm using HotSaNIC. It is completely written in Perl and I wrote an own module to get the temperature and fan information from the non-standardized HP software. Another important point (or interest) is SELinux which had to be modified in the past a couple of times for example to support the very useful pam_abl.

The textbased e-mail client mutt(1), an IRC to other chat networks gateway called BitlBee together with the terminal based IRC client Irssi and screen(1) are completely fulfilling my need of "remote desktop" as already mentioned above. It's enough for me to read or write an e-mail (or even an instant message) from everywhere in the world and just requiring a SSH client at a computer...

Fedora Events and Fedora Ambassador

Open Source Projects

  • rpm2python - Web-based tool similar to rpm2html
  • mod_auth_useragent2 - Unsafe authentication using the User-Agent
  • ntpdate - Small replacement for the ISC NTP ntpdate
  • sip-redirect - Tiny IPv4 and IPv6 SIP redirect server
  • mod_log_post - Module to log all HTTP POST messages
  • x509watch - Simple tool to list expiring or expired X.509 certificates
  • pam_mapi - PAM module for authentication via MAPI against a Zarafa server
  • elem - Periodic table of the elements
  • rpm5 - The RPM Package Manager
  • jwhois - Jonas' Internet whois and nicname client

Fedora and EPEL Packages

I'm maintaining this package at the corresponding branch
I'm co-maintaining this package at the corresponding branch
This package is under review and will be imported to this branch
Package can't be imported to this branch for different reasons

Please notice, that only active branches are listed below. The Fedora Package Database also contains the inactive and retired branches, which are out of date. For the packages, I'm maintaining in RPM Fusion, please have a look to my wiki page there.

Package Description EL-4 EL-5 EL-6 F-15 F-16 devel
php-idn PHP API for GNU LibIDN
php-magickwand PHP API for Image Magick
tcpick TCP stream sniffer, tracker and capturer
eggdrop World's most popular Open Source IRC bot
perl-Net-LibIDN Perl bindings for GNU LibIDN
mimedefang E-Mail filtering framework using Sendmail's Milter interface
librsync Rsync libraries
bitlbee IRC to other chat networks gateway
duplicity Untrusted/encrypted backup using rsync algorithm
libopm Blitzed open proxy monitor library
digitemp Dallas Semiconductor 1-wire device reading console application
mksh MirBSD enhanced version of the Korn Shell
popt C library for parsing command line parameters
beldi Belug Linux Distribution Burner
perl-Razor-Agent Use a Razor catalogue server to filter spam messages
lzop Real-time file compressor
arj Archiver for .arj files
nomarch GPLed Arc de-archiver
freeze Freeze/melt/fcat compression utilities
perl-Convert-UUlib Perl interface to the uulib library
iftop Command line tool that displays bandwidth usage on an interface
pexpect Pure Python Expect-like module
python-GnuPGInterface A Python module to interface with GnuPG
python-boto A simple lightweight interface to Amazon Web Services
phpMyAdmin Handle the administration of MySQL over the World Wide Web
libnids Implementation of an E-component of Network Intrusion Detection System
dsniff Tools for network auditing and penetration testing
gkrellm-top GKrellM plugin which shows 3 most CPU intensive processes
perl-CGI-SpeedyCGI Speed up perl scripts by running them persistently
ddclient Client to update dynamic DNS host entries
perl-ccom Perl module for context-sensitive phonetic string replacement
beecrypt An open source cryptography library
bind-libbind Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) libbind resolver libraries
sip-redirect Tiny IPv4 and IPv6 SIP redirect server written in Perl
ucview Image and video capture application using unicap toolkit
gnokii Linux/Unix tool suite for various mobile phones
erlang-pgsql Erlang PostgreSQL interface
calamaris Squid native log format (NLF) analyzer and report generator
libnet C library for portable packet creation and injection
libnet10 High-level API (toolkit) to construct and inject network packets
perl-Socket6 IPv6 related part of the C socket.h defines and structure manipulators
moon-buggy Drive and jump with some kind of car across the moon
ethtool Ethernet settings tool for PCI ethernet cards
libisofs Library to create ISO 9660 disk images
jwhois Internet whois/nicname client
sing Sends fully customized ICMP packets from command line
zarafa Open Source Edition of the Zarafa Collaboration Platform
libical Reference implementation of the iCalendar data type and serialization format
giflib Library for manipulating GIF format image files
drbdlinks A program for managing links into a DRBD shared partition
rubygem-mongrel_cluster GemPlugin wrapper for the mongrel HTTP server
mod_log_post Module for the Apache web server to log all HTTP POST messages
apachetop A top-like display of Apache logs
perl-Crypt-GPG Perl Object Oriented Interface to GnuPG
ruby-RMagick Graphics Processing for Ruby and Ruby on Rails
rubygem-fastercsv Faster, smaller and cleaner replacement to standard CSV library
perl-DateTime-Format-Excel Convert between DateTime and Excel dates
libvmime07 A powerful C++ class library for working with MIME/Internet messages
unicornscan Scalable, accurate, flexible and efficient network probing
ssldump An SSLv3/TLS network protocol analyzer
libunicap Library to access different kinds of (video) capture devices
libucil Library to render text and graphic overlays onto video images
libunicapgtk Library to build graphical widgets for the unicap library
tclreadline GNU Readline extension for Tcl/Tk
x509watch Simple tool to list expiring or expired X.509 certificates
open-sendmail Additional m4 files used to generate sendmail.cf
php-pear-CodeGen Framework to create code generators that operate on XML descriptions
php-pear-CodeGen-PECL Tool to generate PECL extensions from an XML description
zarafa-webaccess-smime Zarafa Webaccess plugin for S/MIME support
t1utils Collection of Type 1 and 2 font manipulation utilities
barcode Generates barcodes from text strings
boost141 The free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries
mod_flvx FLV progressive download streaming for the Apache HTTP Server
libisoburn Library to enable creation and expansion of ISO-9660 filesystems
libidn2 Library to support IDNA2008 internationalized domain names
libvmime Powerful library for MIME messages and Internet messaging services
php53-mapi The PHP MAPI extension by Zarafa
w3m A pager with Web browsing abilities
php53-extras Additional PHP modules from the standard PHP distribution
phpMyAdmin3 Handle the administration of MySQL over the World Wide Web
php-channel-pearplex Adds the PearPlex channel to PEAR
pamtester Utility to test Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM)
php-php-gettext Gettext emulation in PHP
php53-php-gettext Gettext emulation in PHP
iec16022 Generate ISO/IEC 16022 2D barcodes
clucene09 A C++ port of Lucene
pam_mapi PAM module for authentication via MAPI against a Zarafa server
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