Welcome, Jeroen! -b
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 4:42 AM, Jeroen van Meeuwen (Fedora Project) < kana...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > Hi there, > > please allow me to first introduce myself, before I go crazy and submit > patches to establish my goals with Evergreen Open ILS and OpenSRF ;-) > > My name is Jeroen van Meeuwen, and I live in the Netherlands. During the > day I work as a Senior System Engineer for a consultancy company called > Operator Groep Delft (www.ogd.nl - Dutch), and my hobby and greatest > passion is Free Software and Free Culture. I am in the very lucky position > to have had that hobby and passion become part of my job as well. > > As such, I heavily participate in the Fedora Project, or in Free Software > through the Fedora Project depending on how you look at it, through which we > try and get the latest and greatest in Free Software be in a > sort-of-consistent distribution, which we then release every 6 months. One > of the very awesome examples of it's success is the fact that the > not-so-humble Red Hat Enterprise Linux is practically a full derivative, > downstream distribution of Fedora -if you would like me to explain that > statement please let me know. > > If I were to list bullet points of what I do within the Fedora Project > people would get bored pretty quickly, so let me just emphasize that of most > common interest between the Evergreen project and my involvement with Fedora > so far is the fact that I package software. My goal is to get the Evergreen > Open ILS and OpenSRF packaged for Fedora, as well as Extra Packages for > Enterprise Linux[1]. > > I'm looking forward to meet you all, especially the other RHEL/CentOS > enthusiasts, and working with you all to make the Evergreen Open ILS/OpenSRF > even greater ;-) > > Kind regards, > > Jeroen van Meeuwen > > [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL > > PS. I'm in Toronto early December (3rd-9th), at the Fedora User and > Developer conference (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009), > and I understood some of you are in the area as well. A great opportunity to > meet some of the people involved, maybe? > -- Bill Erickson | VP, Software Development & Integration | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Evergreen Experts | phone: 877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: erick...@esilibrary.com | web: http://esilibrary.com Please join us for the Evergreen 2010 International Conference, April 20-23, 2010 at the Amway Grand Hotel and Convention Center, Grand Rapids, Michigan. http://www.evergreen2010.org/