Greetings all!<br><br>My name is Nicholas van Oudtshoorn - long time Fedora user, first time (hopefully!) contributor. <br><br>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!<br>
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 <a href="http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_Users_Worldwide">http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_Users_Worldwide</a> ), I suspect that rectifying this could be of some use!<br>
<br>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)<br>
<br>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.<br><br>Nicholas van Oudtshoorn<br><br><div style="visibility: hidden; left: -5000px; position: absolute; z-index: 9999; padding: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow: hidden; word-wrap: break-word; color: black; font-size: 10px; text-align: left; line-height: 130%;" id="avg_ls_inline_popup">
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