Hi Mike: Congrats! ^___^
2011/10/27 Michael Hill <[email protected]>: > My name is Mike Hill, and I'm a new Foundation member. I recently > started contributing to the documentation effort with User Docs and > System Monitor Docs. > > I began using Debian in late 1996. In 1998 I moved from a position as > a Designer/Drafter at the engineering company where I'm still > employed, to Network Administrator with 50-100 users. Outside of work > I was involved with the SGI Linux port in a build/test capacity, by > virtue of having an Indy as a home computer. > > In 1999 I discovered GNOME and Ottawa Linux Symposium through the SGI > Linux list, and Neal Stephenson through a Cryptonomicon review on > Slashdot. At work I was running Debian firewalls. > > In 2003 I replaced a NetWare/Exchange Server network with > Samba/Openexchange running on SLES. I was downloading and building > Evolution and Epiphany on my administrator desktop machine. > > In late 2004 I started running Ubuntu, and no longer had to install > GNOME explicitly. The following year the company was acquired by a > much larger one; I became IT manager, but my SLES server was replaced > by a number of Windows ones. GNOME continued running in the background > without my attention, until... > > In February 2010, Linux Magazine columnist and local SF writer Marcel > Gagne blogged about GNOME Shell. I tried it and was enthralled. I > periodically attempted to get it running on Ubuntu, and sometimes > succeeded. > > In March of this year, Jim Campbell posted to the Toronto LUG list > that the docs team was coming to town. I jumped at the opportunity to > get involved, and went out to meet Shaun and the crew. I needed a > dependably-running GNOME 3 and was armed with the Live DVD and my > Ubuntu laptop. Tiffany showed me that GNOME Shell needed to be killed > in order for it to truly live on Ubuntu, and Phil taught me how to > install git with zypper on openSUSE. I switched to openSUSE. > (Periodically I attempt to get GNOME 3 running on Debian.) > > I'm indebted to the Foundation for sponsorships to this year's > Summits. I've posted further, briefer thoughts about these on my blog, > below (not on Planet GNOME yet). I'm delighted to be a Foundation > member. > > Mike > http://mdhill.posterous.com/ > _______________________________________________ > foundation-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
