Hello Ambassadors,
I'd like to introduce myself to the Ambassadors group. I'm Oisín Feeley and am writing from Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada. I've been involved with GNU/Linux since 1995 with the majority of that experience devoted to Red Hat and latterly Fedora. I started experimenting with GNU/Linux when I was a student programming in C using Borland's IDE for Windows and also using Solaris-2.4(SunOS-5.4). On the recommendation of a colleague tried Emacs, gcc and gdb on Red Hat Linux 2.0. It was a revelation both in terms of the workflow and the amount of knowledge freely shared (especially in contrast to the clunky, expensive knowledgebase I had to subscribe to in order to find out about Microsoft Foundation Classes and the impact of the price of Sun's compiler on the laboratory budget). Soon I was sucked in to the excitement of trying different Linux distributions and after some fun with Debian and Slackware settled back on Red Hat Linux. Although I experimented actively with other distributions and had work requirements to support Debian I remained impressed with the commitment of the Red Hat to hire the best developers producing Free Software (for example with the acquisition of Cygnus) and ended up taking the RHCT and RHCE. The foundation of the Fedora Project and its support by Red Hat continues this trend of a successful enterprise carefully nurturing the base of Free Software in which it thrives.
Currently I work supporting Fedora, CentOS and Debian for some small businesses. I'm also involved in developing modules for Drupal (using JavaScript and PHP) for an education-sector company. Within the Fedora Project my contributions centre on writing the Development Beat for Fedora Weekly News. I also participate as part of the editorial team of FWN.
I would like to raise the profile of Fedora where I live. Currently most Linux activity seems to be centred on Ubuntu and there are misconceptions and misunderstandings about what Fedora can offer. This area of Canada is predominantly francophone which adds an extra challenge to my task as I'm originally an English-speaker (from Ireland), mais je suis étudiant en français!
Best wishes,
On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 11:57 -0400, Oisin Feeley wrote:
Hello Ambassadors,
I'd like to introduce myself to the Ambassadors group. I'm Oisín Feeley and am writing from Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada. I've been involved with GNU/Linux since 1995 with the majority of that experience devoted to Red Hat and latterly Fedora. I started experimenting with GNU/Linux when I was a student programming in C using Borland's IDE for Windows and also using Solaris-2.4(SunOS-5.4). On the recommendation of a colleague tried Emacs, gcc and gdb on Red Hat Linux 2.0. It was a revelation both in terms of the workflow and the amount of knowledge freely shared (especially in contrast to the clunky, expensive knowledgebase I had to subscribe to in order to find out about Microsoft Foundation Classes and the impact of the price of Sun's compiler on the laboratory budget). Soon I was sucked in to the excitement of trying different Linux distributions and after some fun with Debian and Slackware settled back on Red Hat Linux. Although I experimented actively with other distributions and had work requirements to support Debian I remained impressed with the commitment of the Red Hat to hire the best developers producing Free Software (for example with the acquisition of Cygnus) and ended up taking the RHCT and RHCE. The foundation of the Fedora Project and its support by Red Hat continues this trend of a successful enterprise carefully nurturing the base of Free Software in which it thrives.
Currently I work supporting Fedora, CentOS and Debian for some small businesses. I'm also involved in developing modules for Drupal (using JavaScript and PHP) for an education-sector company. Within the Fedora Project my contributions centre on writing the Development Beat for Fedora Weekly News. I also participate as part of the editorial team of FWN.
I would like to raise the profile of Fedora where I live. Currently most Linux activity seems to be centred on Ubuntu and there are misconceptions and misunderstandings about what Fedora can offer. This area of Canada is predominantly francophone which adds an extra challenge to my task as I'm originally an English-speaker (from Ireland), mais je suis étudiant en français!
Best wishes,
Welcome to the Ambassadors Family :)
Cheers and good luck, Pawel Sadowski
Welcome to the Team Freedom
Regards, Nehal Dattani
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Oisin Feeley oisinfeeley@imapmail.orgwrote:
Hello Ambassadors,
I'd like to introduce myself to the Ambassadors group. I'm Oisín Feeley and am writing from Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada. I've been involved with GNU/Linux since 1995 with the majority of that experience devoted to Red Hat and latterly Fedora. I started experimenting with GNU/Linux when I was a student programming in C using Borland's IDE for Windows and also using Solaris-2.4(SunOS-5.4). On the recommendation of a colleague tried Emacs, gcc and gdb on Red Hat Linux 2.0. It was a revelation both in terms of the workflow and the amount of knowledge freely shared (especially in contrast to the clunky, expensive knowledgebase I had to subscribe to in order to find out about Microsoft Foundation Classes and the impact of the price of Sun's compiler on the laboratory budget). Soon I was sucked in to the excitement of trying different Linux distributions and after some fun with Debian and Slackware settled back on Red Hat Linux. Although I experimented actively with other distributions and had work requirements to support Debian I remained impressed with the commitment of the Red Hat to hire the best developers producing Free Software (for example with the acquisition of Cygnus) and ended up taking the RHCT and RHCE. The foundation of the Fedora Project and its support by Red Hat continues this trend of a successful enterprise carefully nurturing the base of Free Software in which it thrives.
Currently I work supporting Fedora, CentOS and Debian for some small businesses. I'm also involved in developing modules for Drupal (using JavaScript and PHP) for an education-sector company. Within the Fedora Project my contributions centre on writing the Development Beat for Fedora Weekly News. I also participate as part of the editorial team of FWN.
I would like to raise the profile of Fedora where I live. Currently most Linux activity seems to be centred on Ubuntu and there are misconceptions and misunderstandings about what Fedora can offer. This area of Canada is predominantly francophone which adds an extra challenge to my task as I'm originally an English-speaker (from Ireland), mais je suis étudiant en français!
Best wishes,
Oisin Feeley http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OisinFeeley
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On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Oisin Feeley oisinfeeley@imapmail.org wrote:
Hello Ambassadors,
I'd like to introduce myself to the Ambassadors group. I'm Oisín Feeley and am writing from Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada. I've been involved with GNU/Linux since 1995 with the majority of that experience devoted to Red Hat and latterly Fedora. I started experimenting with GNU/Linux when I was a student programming in C using Borland's IDE for Windows and also using Solaris-2.4(SunOS-5.4). On the recommendation of a colleague tried Emacs, gcc and gdb on Red Hat Linux 2.0. It was a revelation both in terms of the workflow and the amount of knowledge freely shared (especially in contrast to the clunky, expensive knowledgebase I had to subscribe to in order to find out about Microsoft Foundation Classes and the impact of the price of Sun's compiler on the laboratory budget). Soon I was sucked in to the excitement of trying different Linux distributions and after some fun with Debian and Slackware settled back on Red Hat Linux. Although I experimented actively with other distributions and had work requirements to support Debian I remained impressed with the commitment of the Red Hat to hire the best developers producing Free Software (for example with the acquisition of Cygnus) and ended up taking the RHCT and RHCE. The foundation of the Fedora Project and its support by Red Hat continues this trend of a successful enterprise carefully nurturing the base of Free Software in which it thrives.
Currently I work supporting Fedora, CentOS and Debian for some small businesses. I'm also involved in developing modules for Drupal (using JavaScript and PHP) for an education-sector company. Within the Fedora Project my contributions centre on writing the Development Beat for Fedora Weekly News. I also participate as part of the editorial team of FWN.
I would like to raise the profile of Fedora where I live. Currently most Linux activity seems to be centred on Ubuntu and there are misconceptions and misunderstandings about what Fedora can offer. This area of Canada is predominantly francophone which adds an extra challenge to my task as I'm originally an English-speaker (from Ireland), mais je suis étudiant en français!
Best wishes,
Oisin Feeley http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OisinFeeley
Hi Oisin,
Welcome to the group.
A couple of things to note - The North American Ambassadors meeting is Tuesday at 9pm Eastern (Wednesday 0100 UTC). in #fedora-meeting. A good number of us tend to hang out in #fedora-mktg and #fedora-ambassadors, so feel free to join us. NA is kind of split into regions - West US, Central US, East US, and Canada (I know it's ironic that the second largest country on earth is a single region) You'll notice that Rashadul Islam is the regional coordinator for Canada - if you need anything he should be able to get it for you, and help you put together events, etc. If you don't mind, how about adding your name/location/city to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/NA/Regions
You might also want to read this document: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/NorthAmerica/Expectations
If you need help or have questions, please don't hesitate to ask.
David Nalley
ambassadors@lists.fedoraproject.org
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