Self Introduction

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:20:24 +0800
Nicholas van Rheede van Oudtshoorn <vanoudt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings all!

welcome! 

> 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.

Excellent. Welcome to the fun!

kevin

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