Introduction

[David Vestal <vestal d gmail com>]

I would like to introduce myself to the Gnome SysAdmin team.  My name is 
David Vestal.  I am interested in getting to know the team and, at some 
point, being able to help.

I am interested in helping because Linux has been my primary operating 
system for the past 12 years and Gnome my primary desktop for the 
majority of that time and I would like to begin contributing back to the 
community rather than just being a consumer.  Prior to my current 
position I was a web developer for about seven years; mostly java and 
python.  For the past year and a half I have been a system administrator 
/ build-release engineer with my current employer.

I have enjoyed being able to learn enough Ruby to implement the usage of 
Puppet for our system management.  I have configured, but not used in 
production, multi-master replication for MySQL.  We currently have a 
master-slave configuration until I can finish the preparation of moving 
our database to Amazon RDS.  We use LDAP for our user management, but 
being a java shop my supervisors are adament to use OpenDJ instead of 
OpenLDAP and as such I would love to learn the differences in the usage, 
configuration, replication, etc. for that instead.

As my intention with this email is to just introduce myself, I would 
like to lurk on the irc channel for a little while (nick: dvestal) and 
continue reading through a lot of the system documentation available on 
the website.  I would also like to state that if there is anything that 
I can do to help while I am getting to know the people and the systems 
please feel free to ask.

Thank you.  I look forward to being able to be a part of the community.

David Vestal