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Horst H. von Brand
- GPG Public Key: 61EF704F
Profiles
- Fedora Ambassador for Chile
- Member of "Encuentro Linux" Council
Events
- Encuentro Linux 2000 Speaker
- Encuentro Linux 2001 Speaker
- Encuentro Linux 2002 Speaker
- Encuentro Linux 2003 Speaker and Lead Organizer
- Encuentro Linux 2004 Speaker and Lead Organizer
- Encuentro Linux 2005 Speaker
- Encuentro Linux 2006 Speaker
- Encuentro Linux 2007 Speaker
- And many others (more than 100 invited speeches)
Projects
- Ambassadors
- Member of the "Grupo de Discusión sobre Código Abierto" (Discussion Group on Open Source Software) at the Ministerio de Economía in Chile
- Owner of the Linux mailing list (one of the largest in Spanish)
- Usually running the latest kernel and dabbles in the occasional patch
- Fooling around with Linux on SPARC64 (currently using Aurora , a Fedora derivative of sorts)
- Directing the UTFSM ACS Group , which is working on software for ALMA . ACS is open source.
Personal Info
- Associate Professor in the Informatics Department at the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María , in Valparaíso, Chile
- Linux user since November 1991
- Red Hat user since 1996, Fedora fan since Fedora 1