User:MBurns

= Michael Burns =

My name is Michael Burns and I am a Computer Science student at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon. I have been a Linux user for over 6 years and have been an active LUG member and am even a former LUG President.

Contact

 * Email: mailto:mburns@mirwin.net
 * IRC: mburns
 * GPG key: Your key ID and/or signature
 * Fedora Account: mburns

Oregon State Linux User Group
I am core member and former President of the OSLUG. We hold Installfests several times a year, monthly meetings with guest speakers (in an ideal world, at least) and weekly *hacking socials* with pizza and geekdom.

Open Source Education Lab
For the last year and a half, I have worked with the OSEL, whose goal is FOSS outreach into education. We put on regular Barcamp's, present at university expo/fair and new student orientation meetings. We also work to expand the use of FOSS in several CS class curriculum (including a "CS 419 Special Topics In Open Source" class).

Activities within Fedora

 * I would love to work with [user:Lcafiero]
 * As part of Google Summer of Code 2007, I briefly helped with the packaging and testing of the OLPC security system, bitfrost. This is my first formal experience with the Fedora Project as a contributor.

Awesome Backup Script 9000
I would like to revive Git-Home-History(GUI+CLI) and Gibak(CLI) scripts to improve backup/sync solutions for average Linux users. This could be used to make Fedora migration painless (a poor man's Stateless Linux?) since you can just *git-clone* from a local or remote backup. A Pygtk gui exists, as do bindings and tutorials, but not a complete 'solution' to multiple repositories, multiple system git-based homedir backup. Some day, maybe.