Self Introduction

[Marcela Mašláňová]

On 04/27/2011 10:20 AM, Nicholas van Rheede van Oudtshoorn wrote:
> 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)
Great, you can join Perl SIG ;-) We can help you with reviews of Perl
packages.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Perl
> 
> 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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Marcela Mašláňová
BaseOS team Brno