Fabian Affolter

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My Name is Fabian Affolter and I'm living in Berne/Switzerland. Formally I was a Redhat Linux 7/8/9 user but since the first release of Fedora Core I changed my mind and use this wonderful "thing" on my mobile systems. After around 15 years of using computers my skills are only between intermediate and advanced stage. My first system was a Amiga 2000 and my first contact with Linux was Suse Linux 4.4 . I have some programming experience with VB, Python and C#. After I graduated from school I entered the mechanical engineering sector. The computing stuff is more a hobby for me but it has a place in my working life too because somebody has to manage the network and the storage system. In my spare time I like hiking and skiing in the swiss mountains and playing handball.

In the last four years I was mainly engaged in the citizen wireless LAN sector and the wireless LAN communities in Berne. I wrote some articles for the german fedora wiki and some articles for it-relateted magazines in Switzerland about WLAN.

Some other project where I'm still involved...

german fedora wiki - Support wiki for non-english speaking users
Openwireless.ch - free citizen network based on freifunk.net-idea
wireless-forum.ch - Supporting platform for Wireless-LAN problems

A long time ago I thought that it's time to give something back to the Fedora Community and so I have decided to become a more active human in this project. In June 2006 I joined the Ambassadors project to promote Fedora during events unfortunately a long time I was the first and only swiss ambassador. But now the Ambassadors Project is growing...

more personal stuff

Age : 30
Location: Berne or Bern, Switzerland or Schweiz
Time zone : UTC +01:00 (CET) or UTC +02:00 (CEST)
Languages : german (more swiss-german ), english and a little french
Profession : Mechanical Engineer HF (Doppelmayr Ropeways) and Student of Mechanical Engineering (Berne University of Applied Sciences)

Contact

Postal adress :
- ask for the street
  CH-3014 Bern
  Switzerland
Blog : My blog (be aware...some parts are in german)
Website: bernewireless.net & www.wireless-forum.ch
Email: fab@fedoraproject.org

GPG : 0x36A4397F or PGP Public Key Block
- to import my gpg-key:
```
$ gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key 0x36A4397F
```
Skype : fabian.a
IRC : fabian_a
Fedora Account : fab

Project(s) as an Ambassador / Activities within Fedora

Events

planed

FAD LinuxTag 2008 at Berlin, Germany
LinuxTag 2008 at Berlin, Germany
FUDCon LinuxTag 2008 at Berlin, Germany
OpenExpo 2008 at Zurich, Switzerland
perhaps LinuxDay at Dornbirn, Austria

passed

Fedora EMEA Board meeting at Lörrach, Germany - Meeting minutes
OpenExpo 2008 Berne at Berne, Switzerland - Day 00, Day 01 & Day 02
FOSDEM 2008 at Brussels, Belgium - 00, 01, 02, 03 & 04
LinuxTag 2008 Preparation Meeting at Rheinfelden/Germany
FAD 2007 at Rheinfelden, Germany - Meeting minutes & report
OpenExpo 2007 at Zurich, Switzerland - Day 01 & Day 02
LinuxTag 2007 at Berlin, Germany - Day 00, Day 01, Day 02, Day 03, Day 04 & Day 05
FUDCon LinuxTag 2007 at Berlin, Germany
FAD LinuxTag 2007 at Berlin, Germany
FAD 2006 at Rheinfelden, Germany

others

Member of the Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee and vice-chair
Founding member of Fedora EMEA and Vice-President
Creater of the new monthly Ambassadors meetings and leader for EMEA
Creator of the personal event box
Show Fedora to other people -> Presentations
L10n German Coordinator and Maintainer
Member of Fedora Localization Steering Committee (FLSCo)
Translate as much from this wiki and the Fedora Project into German as I can (I know this is not a real project, but for me it's a big one...where are all the people from Germany, Austria and Switzerland?)
Member of Fedora Website, Fedora Ambassadors, Fedora Translation, Fedora Marketing, Fedora Mentors, and from time to time of Fedora Documentation

passed

Co-Writer of the Press release for LinuxTag 2008
Creator of theFedora Flyer for OpenExpo 2008 Berne
Lead writer of the Press release for LinuxTag 2007
Help at the FreeMedia programm (no longer active because in Siwtzerland there are enough broadband account)

Statistics and metrics

Data about the Fedora Website
Stats about the Ambassadors Project
General statistics

Translation

There are around 140 million people who speak german. It's time to reach them !
Mailing list for the german translation https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-trans-de
Bugs https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?product=Fedora%20Localization&component=German%20%5bde%5d
New interface for a progress overview : http://translate.fedoraproject.org

Fedora Pictures

Misc

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