[gnome.org #12067] AutoReply: Application received from EfstathiosIosifidis (iosifidis AT opensuse.org)

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Contact Information:
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Name: EfstathiosIosifidis
E-mail: iosifidis AT opensuse.org
git.gnome.org username (if any): 

Previous GNOME Foundation member: no

GNOME contributions:
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Summary:
I've started using linux on 2006. My first distribution was ubuntu. After my first baby steps, I started to 
write tutorials to the forum (http://forum.ubuntu-gr.org/viewforum.php?f=9). All of them are in my personal 
blog http://vetbuntu.blogspot.com/. Most of my Ubuntu tutorials and help were about how to use Gnome. Then I 
searched for other distributions about differences and the use of Gnome. My next stop was Fedora 
(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Iosifidis). I also started to write tutorials and provide help on Gnome 
users. The forum (http://el.fedoracommunity.org/forum/) is quite new and most of the tutorials were written 
by me. I have them all in a blog http://eiosifidis.blogspot.com/. The time that I spent with Fedora project, 
I served the Ambassador program. During that period, I made some talks or I had a small role to inform people 
about Fedora and Gnome at the LUG I'm member. After a period, I joined openSUSE 
(http://en.opensuse.org/User:Diamond_gr). I started w
 rite tutorials (http://stathisuse.blogspot.com). I joined the Ambassador program and I'm the only one of the 
few that use openSUSE with Gnome around Greece. During this period, I participate to some events promoting 
openSUSE using Gnome as desktop environment.
The last year, I served the Gnome.gr marketing. I applied to FOSSCOMM (the biggest FOSS event in Greece) with 
a booth and a talk (http://bit.ly/mj7KJk). Also I applied with a booth to a FOSS conference informing people 
about Gnome 3 (http://bit.ly/iTnegk). I proposed the Greek team and I organized the social networking ways of 
communication (identi.ca, twitter, facebook, linkedin, Google buzz). You can find all the ways here 
http://bit.ly/mUaf49. I also contribute on the web page design. Plans for the future is to join the very 
active translators team.

Contacts:
1. Izabele Valverde izabelv AT gnome.org
I met her because of openSUSE. She's my mentor of Gnome on openSUSE.

2. Simos Xinitellis simos AT gnome.org
I met him because he leeds the translation team in Greece. He's my mentor of Gnome in Greece. We plan all the 
marketing events and everything that will promote Gnome in Greece.

Other comments:
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Regarding my personal status, I studied farm animals management. After 2 years military service, I worked for 
an import company but the same time I set higher goals. I took exams and passed to veterinary medicine 
university, which I'm near to graduate. All that time, I attended about 30 seminars with marketing, 
management and PR related subject. Apart from my science, I'm interested on reading books on marketing, 
people skills, personal growth.

For these many reasons I believe that I'm able to be part of Gnome Foundation as member.

[Application received at Tue Jun 21 17:17:07 2011 (Eastern time)]

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