Meeting Agenda Item: Introduction Fraser Gutteridge

[Fraser Gutteridge]

Greetings to the Fedora Infrastructure team,

 	Just wanted to introduce myself and say thanks for maintaining 
such a nice distro of Linux for so long. We've been using Fedora as the 
standard distro on many of our desktop machines at the University of 
Delaware since approximately mid-2005 (Fedora Core 4!).

 	I'm interested in becoming involved with the 
development/maintenance of the Fedora Project. I've been working with 
Linux and Unix-like environments for approximately twelve years, mostly 
Fedora, CentOS, RedHat Enterprise and Solaris. Although I have a lot of 
knowledge in terms of system and network administration, I've always 
wanted to learn more about the Linux kernel and how device drivers etc. 
are written.

 	I currently work on a thirteen-man team for the University of 
Delaware, assisting them in maintaining a large number of Unix and Linux 
servers as well as a large switch and router infrastructure. My primary 
task of late has been managing a VMware cluster consisting of twelve 
physical nodes and approximately seventy virtual machines. I am 
well-versed in the following programming and scripting languages: C, C++, 
Perl, Python, Java, Lisp, PHP and some experience with x86 assembly. I 
have a good understanding of the following software: Apache httpd, Apache 
Tomcat, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle PL/SQL, OpenLDAP, OpenSSL, Shibboleth 
IdP and SP. My operating system experience ranges from various distros of 
Linux to Solaris, VMware ESX, Macintosh OS X and most flavors of Windows.

 	I would be interested in working on any GUI requirements you may 
have (I have used GTK+ 2 and 3 for many years), as well as assisting with 
any networking, security or system administration tasks that are pending. 
If I can learn some of the ins and outs of the Linux kernel while doing 
this, so much the better. :)

 	If anybody has any questions, I can be found on IRC as 'udelblue'. 
I look forward to contributing if you need the help.

Thanks!
Fraser

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Fraser Gutteridge    blue at udel.edu    (302) 831-7281

University of Delaware IT/NSS Systems Programmer III

Office 212P, 192 S. Chapel Street, Newark, DE 19716
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