Sandro "red" Mathys
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About myself
- 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 (both Swiss and standard) 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
- Email: red@fedoraproject.org
- IRC: red_trela on freenode (e.g. #fedora-de, #fedora-cloud, #rdo). Feel free to query me without asking first. I might be AFK, though.
- Blog: www.blog.sandro-mathys.ch (technical posts) and www.sandro-mathys.ch (photography)
- Twitter: red_trela
- Google+: +Sandro Mathys
Introduction
Fedora user since, well, Red Hat Linux 6.2. Active Fedora Contributor since 2007, but my roles have changed a few times over the years. Currently, I'm evolved in cloudy matters (mostly Fedora cloud images and OpenStack).
Activities and Roles
In one word, my activities and roles are ever-changing. Both my professional and my private interests have shifted a few times and I try to only stick with a role for as long as I seem to add value to the Fedora Project, Working Group or Special Interest Group. Also, my time is limited and therefore I sometimes have to set priorities. So my current and former activies and roles include:
- Contributor to various OpenStack-related efforts both up- and downstream (RDO, Packstack, Puppet-OpenStack, QA)
- Contributor to the Fedora Cloud Image (mostly QA and some experience-sharing)
- Member of the Fedora Cloud SIG (mostly through the above two points)
- Occasionally still active in former roles (doing package reviews, promotion at events / spreading the word about Fedora, QA, etc.)
- Former member of the QA team, mainly involved in release QA
- Former Proven Tester, mostly reacting to somewhat important requests in #fedora-qa or on the test list
- Former Package Maintainer of several small packages - one left over
- 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
- OpenStack Icehouse Summit in Hong Kong, China
Passed events
- LinuxTag 2007 in Berlin, Germany
- FAD LinuxTag 2007 in Berlin, Germany
- OpenExpo 2007 Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland
- FAD EMEA 2007 in Rheinfelden, Germany
- OpenExpo 2008 Bern in Bern, Switzerland
- FAD LinuxTag 2008 in Berlin, Germany
- LinuxTag 2008 in Berlin, Germany
- FUDCon LinuxTag 2008 in Berlin, Germany
- OpenExpo 2008 Zurich in Winterthur, Switzerland
- FAD EMEA 2008 in Basel, Switzerland (organized)
- FOSDEM 2009 in Brussels, Belgium
- OpenExpo 2009/Bern in Bern, Switzerland
- Red Hat EMEA Partner Summit 2009 in St. Julian's, Malta
- LinuxTag 2009 in Berlin, Germany
- FAD LinuxTag 2009 in Berlin, Germany
- FUDCon EMEA 2009 in Berlin, Germany
- FrOSCon 2009 in Sankt Augustin, Germany
- Red Hat Summit 2009 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
- 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 in Zurich, Switzerland (head organizer)
- FUDCon Tempe 2011 in Tempe, Arizona, USA
- FOSDEM 2011 in Brussels, Germany
- FrOSCon 2011 in Sankt Augustin, Germany
- FUDCon Milan 2011 in Milan, Italy
- FUDCon Blacksburg 2012 in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
- Red Hat Summit 2012 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- FOSDEM 2013 in Brussels, Belgium
- OpenStack Havana Summit in Portland, Oregon, USA
- Red Hat Summit 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Flock 2013 in Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Other work done