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Valentin-Stefan Cobelea

I am using Fedora since the beginning, at home and of course at the office. Before Fedora, I was using RedHat Linux and I was deeply enjoying it. I work in a Romanian office of a major U.S. Devices Software Optimization company, where I am a Development Engineer. Almost in every project, here at work, I've gladly used Fedora as a development platform.


Contact

  • Email: cobelea dot valentin at gmail dot com
  • Skype: valentin.cobelea
  • AIM: valicobelea
  • IRC: valente or valente85 @ #fedora-ambassadors , #fedora-meeting , #fedora-mktg , #fedora-bugzappers , #fedora-ro , #fedora
  • GPG key: 7695 7091 93B6 9B9B 865C 53A7 EB97 8A6E 0ADA 6AF7
  • Fedora Account: Valente

Activities within Fedora

  • I've been accepted as an ambassador.
  • Since in the area where I live there is no big activity regarding Linux, I'll do my best at work, to help my colleagues with Fedora related problems.
  • I've been accepted as a bug-zapper.
  • Established contact with the Romanian team from Fedora Project.

Fedora and me

  • I like and use Fedora for everything I need. I want people to know about Fedora and what it could offer them.
  • When somebody needs help with some issue I always explain and show how to solve that.
  • I've created several documents that shows solutions for general problems, patches, manuals etc. All these things are really helping people, for instance here in the office where I work, because I see that there is no "publicity" for Fedora.
  • Looking at other Linux distros, I think branded CDs, DVDs and even USB-data sticks could make more people use Fedora.
  • Even if I'm working as a developer at work, almost all the Fedora related problems come to be.

Latest things I've done

  • Helped my colleagues with the PackageKit update problem.
  • Created several how-to wiki pages (inside company) for Fedora problems/issues.
  • Installed and configured Fedora on several computers as base servers for different projects.
  • Created USB memory sticks with Fedora 10 as rescue solutions for broken computers.
  • Fixed the error caused by the kernel 2.6.27.9 on several Dell D630 notebooks (mine was the "guinee pig").
  • Start working on creating service packs (with Service Packs Creator) for computers that don't have internet access (due to security issues).
  • Tested Fedora 11 Alpha release and presented to my colleagues the new things added.
  • Contributions on several topics on a Romanian large forum.
  • Subscribed to Fedora BugZappers group.
  • Invited a colleague from the office to participate to Fedora Project. He enlisted as BugZapper (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Dstuxo).
  • Created a topic on an important Romanian Linux forum regarding joining to Fedora Project.
  • Helped a guy from Republic of Moldavia to setup his computer with Fedora 10.
  • Presented to my office colleagues how to create .rpm packages for Fedora, from .deb and archives.
  • Established contact with the other Romanian fellows from Fedora Project (thanks Nicu for all the infos).
  • Tested Fedora 11 Beta release with my colleagues.
  • Created, tested and presented my master diploma project on Fedora 10.
  • Gone to a long good vacation.
  • Proposed the name "Deus" for Fedora 12. Waiting and hopping to be approved.

...to be updated