[Ubuntu-ch] Self Introduction

[Daniel Stoni]

Hello Marcus

thanks for joining and your introduction. And a heartly welcome!

Best regards, Daniel
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Am 08.04.2011 13:24, schrieb Marcus Moeller:
> Hi all.
>
> As some of you might not know me yet, I want to tell you a bit about
> myself.
>
> My name is Marcus Moeller and I want to let you know a bit about myself
>
> # hacker bio
>
> I was born 1976 in Western Germany. My parents gave my brother and me
> a Commodore 64 when I was 10 and the first lines of code have been
> written with 12.
>
> I had a 300 baud modem and an 'Akustikkoppler' to access mailbox
> systems and soon became my own Sysop, leading 'Trancentral BBS' and
> the  'Digital Underground' demo group. Commodore Computers (C64 / 
> Amiga) have been my favourite platform for quite a long time.
>
> In 1994, things began to change. With Linux I have suddenly found a
> good, hackable and community driven operating system for my x86 PC
> which I felt in love with, so I soon installed my first version of
> Linux and got Usenet modem access through a local university.
>
> In the late 90s I have started to create my own Linux Distribution
> called 'Bonzai Linux'. It was based on Debian Potato/Woody and fit on
> a 180 MB mini CD. This was quite cool as I could take a fast
> installable and well pre-configured Linux Desktop with me, being able
> to linuxify on a lot of PCs at any time ;)
>
> I was involved in Debian's boot-floppies and in early d-i development.
>
> As GNOME is my favourite desktop environment, I an activly
> contributing to the GNOME project. (hey, there is a GNOME 3 release
> event in Zurich today afternoon, so if you are in town, come and join
> us :)).
>
> Last year I have co-organized the FrOSCamp in Zurich, which was a lot
> of work (but also great fun).
>
> Starting from 2011 I am the official FSFE Swiss team representative
> and co-organize the Fellowship activities in Zurich.
>
> For me, Ubuntu is the perfect choice when it comes to desktop computing.
>
> # business bio
>
> 1998 I started working as System Administrator at a local university.
> I was responsible for their Linux/Solaris and NT network
> infrastructure and created a PXE booted remote Solaris student-room
> where about 50 pupils where able to work on a single machine.
>
> My thesis was about network monitoring using Nagios. After
> qualification I started working as Linux development team lead at a
> system integrator which is part of the Bechtle group.
>
> These days, I am employed at the ETH in Zurich, beeing responsible for
> the Linux deployment infrastructure.
>
> Best Regards
> Marcus
>