User:Fab

Fabian Affolter

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Fabian Affolter

My Name is Fabian Affolter and I'm living in Berne/Switzerland. Formally I was a Red Hat 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-related magazines in Switzerland about Wireless LAN.

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 (it's 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

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Mentors

• Postal address :

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
• Fedora People: fab.fedorapeople.org
• Mugshot: me
• Email: fab AT fedoraproject DOT org
• GPG : 0x36A4397F or PGP Public Key Block

to import my gpg-key:

$ gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key 0x36A4397F

• Skype : fabian.a (rarely)
• Jabber : fab AT swissjabber DOT org
• IRC : fabian_a
• Fedora Account : fab

Project(s) as an Ambassador / Activities within Fedora

Events

planed

• OpenExpo 2008 at Zurich, Switzerland
• LinuxDay 2008 at Dornbirn, Austria
• FAD 2008 at Basel, Switzerland
• FOSDEM 2009 at Brussels, Belgium
• OpenExpo 2009 Berne at Berne, Switzerland
• FUDCon LinuxTag 2009 at Berlin, Germany
• LinuxTag 2009 at Berlin, Germany
• FAD LinuxTag 2009 at Berlin, Germany

passed

• FUDCon Brno 2008 at Brno, Czech Republic - Day 0, Day 1, Day 2, Day 3 & Day 4
• FUDCon LinuxTag 2008 at Berlin, Germany
• LinuxTag 2008 at Berlin, Germany - Day 00-1, Day 00-2, Day 01, Day 02, Day 03, Day 04 & Day 05
• FAD LinuxTag 2008 at Berlin, Germany
• 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
• Sponsor for new ambassadors and head of Membership Service
• Founding member of Fedora EMEA and Vice-President of this NPO
• Creator 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) (not very active)
• Translate as much from this wiki and the Fedora Project into German as I can. (suspended for the moment)
• 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 the Fedora Flyer for OpenExpo 2008 Berne
• Lead writer of the Press release for LinuxTag 2007
• Help at the FreeMedia Project (no longer active because in Switzerland there are enough broadband accounts)

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

• FAD 2006 : http://gallery.bernewireless.net/thumbnails.php?album=81
• LinuxTag 2007 : http://gallery.bernewireless.net/thumbnails.php?album=86
• OpenExpo 2007 : http://gallery.bernewireless.net/thumbnails.php?album=100
• FAD 2007 : http://gallery.bernewireless.net/thumbnails.php?album=103
• FOSDEM 2008 : http://gallery.bernewireless.net/thumbnails.php?album=104
• OpenExpo 2008, Berne : http://gallery.bernewireless.net/thumbnails.php?album=106
• LinuxTag 2008 : soon
• FUDCon Brno 2008 : soon

Misc

• Workbench
• Articles
• Presentations
• Wiki stuff
• Presentation Video
• Account