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= Sandro Mathys =
I'm trying to keep my page up to date and include every bit that is interesting to others. Drop me a line if you have suggestions on how I could improve it. Also, I'm aware that my English skills are far from perfect - you are very welcome to help me if there's something wrong.
 
I just set up this wiki page. Drop me a line if you have suggestions on how I could improve it. Also, I'm aware that my English skills are far from perfect - you are very welcome to help me if there's something wrong.


== About myself ==
== About myself ==


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* '''Name''': Sandro Mathys (I don't like to be called by those very much, though - please use the short form of my nickname if possible).
* '''Name''': Sandro Mathys
* '''Nickname''': red_alert (say 'red' for short)
* '''Nickname''': red or red_trela or red_alert
* '''Location''': [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne Bern] , [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland Switzerland]  
* '''Location''': [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zurich Zurich] , [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland Switzerland]  
* '''Time zone''': [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_European_Time CET]  ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time UTC] +01:00) and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_European_Summer_Time CEST]  ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time UTC] +02:00) during summers.
* '''Time zone''': [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_European_Time CET]  ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time UTC] +01:00) and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_European_Summer_Time CEST]  ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time UTC] +02:00) during summers.
* '''Year of birth''': 1985
* '''Year of birth''': 1985
* '''Languages''': English, German (and Swiss-German, which happens to be my mother tongue - but I'll never use that unless communicating verbal)
* '''Languages''': English and (Swiss-)German
* '''Education''': Graduate Engineer on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_and_Communication_Technology ICT]  
* '''Education''': Graduate Engineer in Enterprise Computing
* '''Profession''': (JEE) Software Engineer at [http://noser.com/ Noser Engineering AG] near Bern, Switzerland
* '''Profession''': (OpenStack) Cloud Architect at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich ([https://www.ethz.ch/index_EN ETHZ]), Switzerland
* '''Certifications''': [http://www.redhat.com/certification/rhce/ RHCE]
* '''Awards''': [http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/2010/awards/rhce/ European RHCE of the Year 2010]


=== Contact ===
=== Contact ===


* '''Email''': [[MailTo(red@fedoraproject.org)]   
* '''Email''': [mailto:&#114;&#101;&#100;&#064;&#102;&#101;&#100;&#111;&#114;&#097;&#112;&#114;&#111;&#106;&#101;&#099;&#116;&#046;&#111;&#114;&#103; &#114;&#101;&#100;&#064;&#102;&#101;&#100;&#111;&#114;&#097;&#112;&#114;&#111;&#106;&#101;&#099;&#116;&#046;&#111;&#114;&#103;]   
* '''GPG key''': 580554550E6516E8
* '''IRC''': red_trela on freenode (e.g. #fedora-de, #fedora-cloud). Feel free to query me without asking first. I might be AFK though.
* '''Fedora Account''': red
* '''Blog''': [http://www.sandro-mathys.ch/ www.sandro-mathys.ch]
* '''IRC''': red_alert on freenode (e.g. #fedora-de, #fedora-mktg, #fedora). Feel free to query me without asking first. I might be AFK though.
* '''Jabber''': red_alert@swissjabber.ch (no e-mails!)
* '''Skype''': red_alert (no calls without approval!)
* '''Blog''': [http://sandro-mathys.ch/]  


=== Fedora and I ===
=== Fedora and I ===
I started to get in touch with Linux back in 1999 and started to really use it about one year later. While I got my first experience with Suse 6.0, I soon tried several other distributions. Among all tested, I really loved red hat linux 6.2. It took me another year to finally make the change from Microsoft Windows to (Red Hat) Linux - still in dual boot, though. With the release of Red Hat Linux 7.3 I got rid of the Windows Partition and since then I'm using nothing but Red Hat Linux and later on Fedora on my own workstations as well as my own servers. I never stopped to have a look at new distributions or new releases of existing distributions - but there's never been one I even only liked half as much as Fedora (and Kubuntu being the only other distribution I could imagine to use on a workstation for myself).
I started to get in touch with Linux back in 1999 and started to really use it about one year later. While I got my first experience with Suse 6.0, I soon tried several other distributions. Among all tested, I really loved red hat linux 6.2. It took me another year to finally make the change from Microsoft Windows to (Red Hat) Linux - still in dual boot, though. With the release of Red Hat Linux 7.3 I got rid of the Windows Partition and since then I'm using nothing but Red Hat Linux and later on Fedora on my own workstations as well as my own servers. I never stopped to have a look at new distributions or new releases of existing distributions - but there's never been one I even only liked half as much as Fedora (and Kubuntu being the only other distribution I could imagine to use on a workstation for myself).
Since 2007 I'm an active contributor to the Fedora Project.


=== KDE and I ===
=== KDE and I ===
When I first used a Linux Distribution - as portrayed above - it had a KDE desktop. At that time, KDE was pretty ugly - even Windows 98 was more beautiful. Anyway, I didn't know many others and everthing else looked even worse. I admit, that was one reason that kept me using Windows. But the different window managers and desktop environments have evolved, luckily. I still use KDE as of today. Maybe it's just because I got used to it over the years, but I think it fits me best. I'm looking forward to KDE 4 for ages already, btw ;)
When I first used a Linux Distribution - as portrayed above - it had a KDE desktop. At that time, KDE was pretty ugly - even Windows 98 was more beautiful. Anyway, I didn't know many others and everything else looked even worse. I admit, that was one reason that kept me using Windows. But the different window managers and desktop environments have evolved, luckily. I still use KDE as of today. Maybe it's just because I got used to it over the years, but I think it fits me best.


Gnome is nice as well, but in my very humble opinion it's not as user friendly as KDE. Of course anyone else could very well feel different about that point.
Gnome is nice as well, but lacks lot of configuration options KDE has and which are very important for me. Of course anyone else could very well feel different about that point.


I also like XFCE4 (actually it's the one I use if KDE is a overkill) but it doesn't have the features (I feel) I need for my daily business. Of course I can't really blame XFCE4 for this since being quite small and only having the important features is the goal of this project.
If KDE seems a bit of a overkill, I go for KDE/openbox or maybe openbox only. There's also some other lightweight window managers/desktop environments I like (but hardly ever use).


== Activities within Fedora ==
== Activities within Fedora ==


* Fedora Ambassador for Switzerland, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German-speaking_Europe#D-A-CH DACH]  and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe%2C_the_Middle_East_and_Africa EMEA]  
Over the years, I've changed roles a couple of times for various reasons. I'm still somewhat connected to most former roles, though.
* Just joined the Marketing group, being not too active nor passive
 
* Founder and administrator/moderator of the [http://www.xing.com/net/fedoraproject Fedora Project Group] on [http://www.xing.com/ XING]  
* Member of the Fedora Cloud SIG, mostly doing rather trivial stuff (anything from package reviews to QA testing). Also involved in Packstack development (openstack-packstack package).
* Package Maintainer of several small [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/users/packages/red?acls=owner packages]
* Founder and administrator/moderator of the [http://www.xing.com/net/fedoraproject Fedora Project Group] on [http://www.xing.com/ XING]  
* Trying to give as much support as possible (over IRC and offline)
* Trying to give as much support as possible (over IRC and offline)
* Spread the word about Fedora
* Spreading the word about Fedora
* [Get some feedback about Fedora
* Getting some feedback about Fedora
]
* ''Former'' member of the QA team, mainly involved in release QA
* ''Former'' proventester, mostly reacting to somewhat important requests in #fedora-qa or on the test list
* ''Former'' founding member of the Community Working Group (CWG), left after the [[Community_working_group/Code_of_Conduct|Code of Conduct]] (CoC) and the [[Community_working_group/CoC_Enforcement|CoC Enforcement]] were approved
* ''Former'' Fedora Ambassador, still often seen at events
* ''Former'' member of the infrastructure team, doing rather unimportant, small tasks regarding [http://fedorahosted.org/ Fedora Hosted]
 
=== Events ===
=== Events ===
List of events I attended or plan to attend in future.
List of events I attended or plan to attend in future in chronological order, earliest first.


==== Future events ====
==== Future events ====
* [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD/FADLinuxTag2008 FAD LinuxTag 2008]  in Berlin, Germany
* [[Red_Hat_Summit_2013]] in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
* [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/LinuxTag/LinuxTag2008 LinuxTag 2008] in Berlin, Germany
* [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConLinuxTag2008 FUDCon LinuxTag 2008] in Berlin, Germany
* [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/OpenExpo/OpenExpo2008_Zurich OpenExpo 2008]  in Winterthur/Zurich, Switzerland
 
==== Passed events ====
==== Passed events ====
* [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/LinuxTag/LinuxTag2007 LinuxTag 2007]  in Berlin, Germany
* [[FedoraEvents/LinuxTag/LinuxTag2007|LinuxTag 2007]]  in Berlin, Germany
* [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD/FADLinuxTag2007 FAD LinuxTag 2007]  in Berlin, Germany
* [[FAD/FADLinuxTag2007|FAD LinuxTag 2007]]  in Berlin, Germany
* [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/OpenExpo/OpenExpo2007_2 OpenExpo 2007]  in Zurich, Switzerland
* [[FedoraEvents/OpenExpo/OpenExpo2007_2|OpenExpo 2007 Zurich]]  in Zurich, Switzerland
* [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD/FADEMEA2007 FAD EMEA 2007]  in Rheinfelden, Germany
* [[FAD/FADEMEA2007|FAD EMEA 2007]]  in Rheinfelden, Germany
* [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/OpenExpo/OpenExpo2008_Berne OpenExpo 2008]  in Berne, Switzerland
* [[FedoraEvents/OpenExpo/OpenExpo2008_Berne|OpenExpo 2008 Bern]]  in Bern, Switzerland
* [[FAD/FADLinuxTag2008|FAD LinuxTag 2008]]  in Berlin, Germany
* [[FedoraEvents/LinuxTag/LinuxTag2008|LinuxTag 2008]]  in Berlin, Germany
* [[FUDCon/FUDConLinuxTag2008|FUDCon LinuxTag 2008]]  in Berlin, Germany
* [[FedoraEvents/OpenExpo/OpenExpo2008_Zurich|OpenExpo 2008 Zurich]]  in Winterthur, Switzerland
* [[FAD/FADEMEA2008|FAD EMEA 2008]] in Basel, Switzerland (organized)
* [[FedoraEvents/FOSDEM/FOSDEM2009|FOSDEM 2009]] in Brussels, Belgium
* [[FedoraEvents/OpenExpo/OpenExpo2009_Berne|OpenExpo 2009/Bern]] in Bern, Switzerland
* [[Red Hat EMEA Partner Summit 2009]] in St. Julian's, Malta
* [[FedoraEvents/LinuxTag/LinuxTag2009|LinuxTag 2009]] in Berlin, Germany
* [[FAD/FADLinuxTag2009|FAD LinuxTag 2009]] in Berlin, Germany
* [[FUDConBerlin2009|FUDCon EMEA 2009]] in Berlin, Germany
* [[FrOSCon 2009]] in Sankt Augustin, Germany
* [[Red Hat Summit 2009]] in Chicago, IL, USA
* [[FedoraEvents/OpenExpo/OpenExpo2009_Zurich|OpenExpo 2009 Zurich]] in Winterthur, Switzerland
* [[FOSDEM 2010]] in Brussels, Belgium
* [[Red Hat Summit 2010]] in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
* [[FrOSCamp 2010 Zurich]] in Zurich, Switzerland (head organizer)
* [[FUDCon:Zurich_2010|FUDCon Zurich 2010]] in Zurich, Switzerland (head organizer)
* [[FUDCon:Tempe_2011|FUDCon Tempe 2011]] in Tempe, Arizona, USA
* [[FOSDEM 2011]] in Brussels, Germany
* [[FrOSCon 2011]] in Sankt Augustin, Germany
* [[FUDCon:Milan_2011|FUDCon Milan 2011]] in Milan, Italy
* [[FUDCon:Blacksburg_2012|FUDCon Blacksburg 2012]] in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
* [[Red Hat Summit 2012]] in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
* [[FOSDEM 2013]] in Brussels, Belgium


=== Other work done ===
=== Other work done ===
* [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/PressReleases?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=20080430_LinuxTag_FUDCon_F9.pdf Fedora LinuxTag/FUDCon/F9]  [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/PressReleases Press Release]  
* [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/PressReleases?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=20080430_LinuxTag_FUDCon_F9.pdf Fedora LinuxTag/FUDCon/F9]  [[Fedora press archive|Press Release]]
 


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Revision as of 07:41, 18 March 2013

Sandro "red" Mathys

I'm trying to keep my page up to date and include every bit that is interesting to others. Drop me a line if you have suggestions on how I could improve it. Also, I'm aware that my English skills are far from perfect - you are very welcome to help me if there's something wrong.

About myself

Sandro Mathys
  • Name: Sandro Mathys
  • Nickname: red or red_trela or red_alert
  • Location: Zurich , Switzerland
  • Time zone: CET (UTC +01:00) and CEST (UTC +02:00) during summers.
  • Year of birth: 1985
  • Languages: English and (Swiss-)German
  • Education: Graduate Engineer in Enterprise Computing
  • Profession: (OpenStack) Cloud Architect at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ), Switzerland
  • Certifications: RHCE
  • Awards: European RHCE of the Year 2010

Contact

Fedora and I

I started to get in touch with Linux back in 1999 and started to really use it about one year later. While I got my first experience with Suse 6.0, I soon tried several other distributions. Among all tested, I really loved red hat linux 6.2. It took me another year to finally make the change from Microsoft Windows to (Red Hat) Linux - still in dual boot, though. With the release of Red Hat Linux 7.3 I got rid of the Windows Partition and since then I'm using nothing but Red Hat Linux and later on Fedora on my own workstations as well as my own servers. I never stopped to have a look at new distributions or new releases of existing distributions - but there's never been one I even only liked half as much as Fedora (and Kubuntu being the only other distribution I could imagine to use on a workstation for myself). Since 2007 I'm an active contributor to the Fedora Project.

KDE and I

When I first used a Linux Distribution - as portrayed above - it had a KDE desktop. At that time, KDE was pretty ugly - even Windows 98 was more beautiful. Anyway, I didn't know many others and everything else looked even worse. I admit, that was one reason that kept me using Windows. But the different window managers and desktop environments have evolved, luckily. I still use KDE as of today. Maybe it's just because I got used to it over the years, but I think it fits me best.

Gnome is nice as well, but lacks lot of configuration options KDE has and which are very important for me. Of course anyone else could very well feel different about that point.

If KDE seems a bit of a overkill, I go for KDE/openbox or maybe openbox only. There's also some other lightweight window managers/desktop environments I like (but hardly ever use).

Activities within Fedora

Over the years, I've changed roles a couple of times for various reasons. I'm still somewhat connected to most former roles, though.

  • Member of the Fedora Cloud SIG, mostly doing rather trivial stuff (anything from package reviews to QA testing). Also involved in Packstack development (openstack-packstack package).
  • Package Maintainer of several small packages
  • Founder and administrator/moderator of the Fedora Project Group on XING
  • Trying to give as much support as possible (over IRC and offline)
  • Spreading the word about Fedora
  • Getting some feedback about Fedora
  • Former member of the QA team, mainly involved in release QA
  • Former proventester, mostly reacting to somewhat important requests in #fedora-qa or on the test list
  • Former founding member of the Community Working Group (CWG), left after the Code of Conduct (CoC) and the CoC Enforcement were approved
  • Former Fedora Ambassador, still often seen at events
  • Former member of the infrastructure team, doing rather unimportant, small tasks regarding Fedora Hosted

Events

List of events I attended or plan to attend in future in chronological order, earliest first.

Future events

Passed events

Other work done