Re: GNOME Infrastructure Apprentice Program

[Andrea Veri <av gnome org>]

Hey Michael!

it's great to see you willing to join the Program as the Docs team
representative! I think that's absolutely a great idea and I'm happy
to welcome you into the apprentice ranks!

Please start looking around at our Puppet repository by following the
instructions at [1] and get used to it. Your next questions and doubts
will be more than welcome on this list.

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Sysadmin/Apprentices

2015-01-29 17:25 GMT+01:00 Michael Hill <mdhillca gmail com>:
> I too would like to join the apprentice program.
>
> I've been using Linux since 1996 beginning with Debian. I was involved with
> the SGI Linux port doing installation and testing when I heard about GNOME
> in 1998[1]. Within a year or two I started building and testing Evolution[2]
> (and Gnome-apt[3]!) on Debian unstable/experimental. At the end of 2004 I
> started running Ubuntu.
>
> By day I do software support for a multinational engineering company,
> specifically for CAD and engineering analysis software. I started as a
> drafter/designer (also in 1996) when it was a small local company, which was
> then acquired in 2006. In 1998 I became the network administrator, and by
> 2004 I had replaced the NetWare file server and Exchange email server with
> SLES and Open-Xchange. With the acquisition my Linux career was put on hold:
> I took MCSE training and became the office IT manager where I built up a
> staff of five. I switched to the design systems department in 2008 and the
> local IT department began to be outsourced; a single technician now remains
> in the office.
>
> In 2011 I joined the GNOME Docs team for the release of 3.0. I have a couple
> of oldish ThinkPads that run openSUSE Factory and Fedora Rawhide (with other
> distros in Boxes) and a 2005 G41 that runs Ubuntu GNOME (3.10 I think) but
> overheats. I do testing using Boxes and Continuous. Sometimes I use jhbuild,
> particularly for building Boxes.
>
> I'd like to be a Sysadmin representative on the Docs team, and be available
> in an emergency.
>
> I have no knowledge of Puppet other than what I've read on the website.
>
> I had brief, passing experience installing Red Hat 5.1 (the first SGI
> installer) and 6 (on x86), but not RHEL. Aside from Fedora, my only
> connection to Red Hat is that I follow the Canadian football team owned by
> the founder.[4]
>
> I am eager to learn new things and provide feedback.
>
> [1] http://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/1998-02/msg00060.html
> [2]
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2002-February/msg00312.html
> [3] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1999/01/msg02402.html
> [4] http://www.ticats.ca/page/bob-young
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> Mike
>
>
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-- 
Cheers,

Andrea

Debian Developer,
Fedora / EPEL packager,
GNOME Infrastructure Team Coordinator,
GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Secretary,
GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman

Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av