Meeting Agenda Item: Introduction Fraser Gutteridge

[Fraser Gutteridge]

Hey Kevin,

 	Thanks for the welcome. I've jumped in #fedora-admin on freenode.

Fraser

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

University of Delaware IT/NSS Systems Programmer III

Office 212D, 192 S. Chapel Street, Newark, DE 19716
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On Tue, 14 Feb 2012, Kevin Fenzi wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:53:27 -0500 (EST)
> Fraser Gutteridge <blue at UDel.Edu> wrote:
>
>>
>> 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.
>
> Welcome!
>
> If you've not already, please take a look at
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/GettingStarted
>
> and do join us on #fedora-admin on irc.freenode.net and we can get you
> setup further then.
>
> kevin
>