Introducing Bart De Soete

Introducing myself

About me

Name: Bart De Soete
Fedora Account: badeso
Lives in: Belgium - Louvain (Western-Europe)
Works in: Belgium - Brussels
My job: I work as IT-and Facility Coordinator at MuFDB (www.mufdb.org ), a museum for modern art in combination with ecology where we try to bring art to life with new technologies.
Past jobs: I managed IT for several organizations for several years.
Since 8 years I'm very committed to the evolution of the IT-sector, and the last 3 years very interested in Fedora.
I try to contribute to the Fedora Project by spreading the word about Fedora to young people who aren't familiar with Fedora or even with Linux at all. I also try to translate on regulary base and participate in the Fedora Localization Project.
My main goal is to migrate as many as possible organizations (mostly non-profits)from MS-enviroments to Fedora or Linux in general. In that process, I try to find solutions for indvidual requirements and OpenSource-alternatives instead of paying closed licenses. Organizations with low budget (especially non-profits) can save millions by just following the OpenSource-philosophy. However, for professional use, I admit also use MS- or other Windows-based software, but only because I have to for my work.

I participate in the following Fedora's projects:

You can contact me by email in Dutch (Nederlands) and English:

"Linux, less expensive, more effective"