Hi and welcome to the LoCo fellow Cincinnatian. I'm Svetlana, the most active leader out the three we have. I'm just a lab tech that has FOSS/Linux/Open * as hobbies. I mostly advocate it through writing about it and volunteering at Grailville for Open Science.
On Fri, May 25, 2018, at 11:26 AM, Elias Ward wrote: > New member here of the LoCo. > > I thought I might introduce myself by answering this latest question > in the mailing list. > > I got started with Linux back in the 90's using a clone of Red Hat > that I found in a Wal-Mart for $5. Booted up to a console. Played > around and got startx going and started into twm. Neat. A GUI full of > term windows. Fell in love. Rewrote a driver I found online to get my > Winmodem to work and I was hooked on FOSS and Linux. > > Learned about Ubuntu in 2005 and played around with it and liked it. > Used it as my primary OS for about 3 or 4 years (was using Debian and > Fedora Core before that). I remember there being some issues and so > started jumping between Fedora and Ubuntu before the great distro hop > years. > > Now, while I dabble around in other distros, I pretty much use > Kubuntu. I like KDE and it was either Kubuntu or openSUSE and while I > like openSUSE, I don't have as much time to "force" things to work so > I use what most people write for which I admit pains me a little > because I have a special place in my heart for small distros. > > Part of that is because I served on the Fuduntu Linux team for a while > before the upstream changes were too much for us to handle while still > giving users what they wanted and so it took its toll and came to an > end. > > I worked with the openSUSE team for a short time before taking a few > year hiatus from any contributing. in 2007, helped to form up the > Nevada LoCo and worked with sum LUG's. Now, I'm trying to jump back > into the middle of the Linux and FOSS world. > > Something that has disappointed me is the decline of LoCo's and LUG's > and I want to find a way to bring that back as well as advocate for > smaller distros. > > By day, I am a Systems/Network Administrator. Pains me to say it, but > it's a 99% Windows network though I plan on changing that some. My > laptop at work runs Linux because most of my day is RDP'd into servers > (or via PowerShell) or in various browser-based clients so why not? > > I live down by Cincy and have a wife and two small children. FOSS and > Linux advocate (but practical...sometimes FOSS and Linux don't have > the best solution). I saw a post from a couple years ago about > reviving this LoCo. Is that still something of interest to others? > > Nice to virtually meet you all and hope that maybe this thread that > was started will spark some renewed interest. Linux and FOSS were > built on community. It's time to bring that back. > > Elias > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-ohio > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-ohio > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Svetlana Belkin A.K.A: belkinsa User Wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/belkinsa _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-ohio Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-ohio More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
