[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Introduction: Jeroen van Meeuwen (Fedora Project)

[Bill Erickson]

Welcome, Jeroen!

-b

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 4:42 AM, Jeroen van Meeuwen (Fedora Project) <
kanarip at 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?
>



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