Self-Introduction: Peter van Egdom

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

Peter van Egdom wrote:
> Name : Peter van Egdom
> City, Country : Zaandijk, The Netherlands (GMT+1)
> Profession : System administrator, part-time computer science student.
>
> My goals in the Fedora Project :
> ===
> - Translation of the various Fedora Core components to the Dutch language.
> - Proofreading the existing Dutch language of the Fedora Core components.
> - Reporting bugs I encounter on Fedora Core.
> - Triaging Fedora bug-reports.
>
> By doing this I hope to improve the Dutch language support in the
> Fedora Core distribution (and derivative distributions like Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux, etc...) and improving the end-user experience of
> Fedora.
>
>
> Historical qualifications
> ===
> I've been an active translator in the pre-Fedora Core (Red Hat) days
> since 2002. My computer experience goes back to the Commodore 64 and
> Amiga computers. On the PC I grew up with DOS, Windows and OS/2. The
> first Linux distribution I used was Red Hat 5.2. Since that version of
> Red Hat I downloaded and installed every version of Red Hat that came
> after 5.2. Being curious, I also tried other Linux distributions but
> always came back to Red Hat / Fedora. At the moment my main
> workstation at home runs Fedora Core 5.
>
> I know a little bit of Unix shell-scripting and some college-level C
> programming. :-) Being a system-administrator my skills are more on
> the operating system and network side of things.
>
>
> What makes you an excellent match for the project?
> ==
> Well, I eat my own dog food. :-) I try out my own translations for the
> Fedora Core components I see and use daily on my workstation.
> Periodically I also try a rawhide (Fedora development tree)
> installation inside a virtual machine to see the status and appearance
> of the Dutch anaconda and firstboot translations in the rawhide tree.
>
>
> GPG KEYID and fingerprint
> ===
> [pve-nl at peanut ~]$ gpg --fingerprint 30103961
> pub   1024D/30103961 2005-07-29 [expires: 2008-07-28]
>       Key fingerprint = 0A79 C5AE DAED C653 BAFE  3A60 0FA4 9C20 3010 3961
> uid                  Peter van Egdom <p.van.egdom at gmail.com>
> sub   2048g/F827F5D2 2005-07-29 [expires: 2008-07-28]
>
>
> Regards,
>
>  - Peter van Egdom
>
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Hi Peter,

welcome to the exclusive club ;)

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen