Self Introduction

[Nicholas van Rheede van Oudtshoorn]

Greetings all!

My name is Nicholas van Oudtshoorn - long time Fedora user, first time
(hopefully!) contributor.

One of my jobs (apart from being a church pastor) involves taking care of
the IT systems for a local seminary here in Perth, Western Australia. We've
been running Fedora on our servers for several years now - basically because
it's the distro I find the most intuitive!
As part of my duties, I manage the seminary's library software - Koha.
Although this runs fine under Fedora, quite a few of it's dependencies are
not available in the Fedora repositories. Given the number of libraries
using koha (big and small - check out
http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_Users_Worldwide ), I suspect that
rectifying this could be of some use!

To this end, I've started packaging up build requirements. The first package
I've made (boy - it's more complex than it seems at first :-) ) is for the
Zebra database engine. After that, I'd like to work on the perl packages
that are missing. (CPAN is useful - but yum is *so* much easier!) I'd also
like to see about updating the yaz package. (yaz is currently available in
Fedora - but is quite a few versions behind the upstream)

Anywho - just thought I'd introduce myself. I've loved using Fedora over the
last years - and am excited about the possibility of giving something back.

Nicholas van Oudtshoorn
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