Hello! My name is David (Zarniwoop), and I signed up a while back for participating in the Mageia dev-team among with other teams, but since then I haven't heard anything. I've now been in contact with Maertens who asked me to email on the mailinglist and let you all know who I am and what I hope to participate with, so here goes:
I'm 32 years old, working in telecommunications. In March I will start working as a software developer for DigitalRoute (in Java). Linux experience: I've been using Linux since around 1997 (possibly -96). Slackware for the first few years, and later several distributions but mostly Red Hat, Mandriva, Slackware and Ubuntu. At work I use Ubuntu (10.04), and at home I use Mandriva 2009.1 and 2010.1. At work and at the University I've used UNIX a lot on servers. Developer experience: I have a B.Sc. in Computer Science focusing on software development and programming. I've programmed assembly language on Amiga (68020), and in the later year mostly C and Java with some experience in C#. I've also worked a lot with Oracle at work. My participation: I haven't participated in distribution development before so I'm pretty new at this, but I want to help out wherever I can. I think I can be of most use with C-programming. I prefer low-level programming as opposed to GUI, but am eager to learn so if I get some pointers I'll try to help out wherever needed. Since I don't have any experience from distro development I'm hoping someone more experienced could point me in the right direction. Regards, David Sjölin AKA Zarniwoop
