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= Klaatu =
= Klaatu =


I'm a Unix and Linux enthusiast and, lately, professional. I use mostly Slackware, Red Hat / Fedora. I programme a little; BASH, Python, and C++ are my weapons of choice. I write a lot, with books and articles online and IRL. I was trained as a filmmaker, so I am heavily involved in filmmaking activities on many different scales (I have done independent work mostly but lately have been hired to work on some bigger projects). Sometimes I also do podcasts.
I'm a Unix and Linux enthusiast and, lately, professional. I'm a Slackware and Red Hat / Fedora user. I dabble in code, I write a lot and have technical articles published in magazines, books, and online.
 
I attended uni for filmmaking, and have been lucky enough to work on several big-budget motion pictures, with post being done in New Zealand, where I currently reside. The company I worked for housed the southern hemisphere's largest super computer, for rendering, so I'm one of the few people who can say that I have run '''ffmpeg''' on an 80,000 core machine.
 
Sometimes I also do podcasts.


== Podcasts ==
== Podcasts ==
* [http://gnuworldorder.info Gnu World Order] is my personal Linux oggcast, and as far as I know the first podcast to release shows in ogg vorbis and speex formats only (that is, no proprietary codecs are offered). The show discusses any geeky topic I want to cover; Sometimes this includes Fedora and RHEL.
 
* [http://www.hackerpublicradio.org Hacker Public Radio] is a daily podcast for which I am a correspondent.  I cover lots of different things on this show, including interviews with KDE devs, Fedora people, and even an episode on how to create an RPM using rpmbuild.
* [http://gnuworldorder.info Gnu World Order] is my personal Linux cast, and as far as I know the first podcast to release shows in Ogg Vorbis and Speex formats only (that is, no proprietary codecs are offered). The show discusses any geeky topic I want to cover.
* [http://www.kernelpanicoggcast.net Kernel Panic Oggcast] is a brash and bold round table for which I am one of the regular panelists.
* '''Fedora Reloaded''' was a show that me and a friend had inherited and ran for a while, but sadly our schedules became to disparate to manage.  The show died a quiet, untimely death.
* '''Fedora Reloaded''' was a show that me and a friend, Skirlet, had inherited and ran for a while, but sadly our schedules have just become to disparate to manage.  The show died a quiet, untimely death. Secretly, I'd love to continue it, but realistically I know I wouldn't have the time.
* [http://www.hackerpublicradio.org Hacker Public Radio] is a daily podcast for which I am a correspondent.  I cover lots of different things on this show, including interviews with KDE devs, Fedora people, and even an episode on how to [http://hobbypublicradio.org/eps.php?id=0882 create an RPM using rpmbuild].
* '''Linux Cranks''' was the father and mother of Kernel Panic Oggcast.
* '''Today in Tech Radio''' was an off-shoot of Linux Cranks, meant to be slightly more professional.  It no longer exists either.  


== Contact ==
== Contact ==


* '''Email''': klaatu at the domain of the second podcast listed above   
* '''Email''': klaatu at the domain of the third podcast listed above   
* '''IRC''': notKlaatu in freenode IRC
* '''Matrix''': klaatu on matrix.org
* '''Fedora Account''': klaatu
* '''Fedora Account''': klaatu
* '''Jabber''': notKlaatu on jabber-dot-org
* '''Mastodon''': @klaatu@mastodon.xyz
 
== Activities within Fedora ==
 
* I guess I promote Fedora as often as I feel necessary.
* I interview Fedora people whenever I get a chance to, primarily at Linux conventions.
* As a freelance author, I wrote 6 of 8 articles for the [http://www.linuxidentity.com Linux Identity] Fedora 11 issue, available in your local bookstore, a Fedora FAQ that they seem to re-use whenever they feel like they need one, and a lot of other articles later on, including quite a few for Fedora 14 and 15.
 
== Linuxy Activities, Tutorials, How-to's ==
 
* [http://www.slackermedia.info Slackermedia] contains evolving tutorials on multimedia work on Linux.  I use Slackware as my jumping-off point for multimedia, but much of what I write about on Slackermedia applies to Fedora, especially since I borrow from Fedora repositories for packages sometimes, and Planet CCRMA multimedia packages.
* Linux Journal, Linux Pro, Linux Format, Linux Identity, and Linux+ have published articles written by me.
* I wrote an article for the very cool [http://libregraphicsmag.com Libre Graphics] magazine.  Check that out.
* I wrote and maintain a frightfully basic application (actually just a shell script) called [http://slackermedia.info/trashy trashy], that lets the user move things to a commandline trashcan and empty it when they are sure they want to delete the files.  It is meant as a sane intermediary for the very dangerous (yet strangely, for all of its  potential damage, ubiquitous) '''rm''' command.
* I wrote and maintain a very simple workflow method for docbook that allows a creative writer to just write, and then impose mark-up and export to the desired format.  I call it [http://slackermedia.info/circulate circulate] and it's not really an application as much as it is a suggestion on how to manage your text.
* I maintain Vance L. Simpson's [http://nongnu.org/screenwriter screenwriter-mode], an emacs extension for writing industry-standard screenplays in GNU Emacs.  Well, really I maintain a fork of it, since I can't seem to find Vance anywhere online.  My fork contains a few minor patches; one improves usability and the other adds functionality.  An RPM for this is forthcoming.

Latest revision as of 07:23, 17 January 2023

Klaatu

I'm a Unix and Linux enthusiast and, lately, professional. I'm a Slackware and Red Hat / Fedora user. I dabble in code, I write a lot and have technical articles published in magazines, books, and online.

I attended uni for filmmaking, and have been lucky enough to work on several big-budget motion pictures, with post being done in New Zealand, where I currently reside. The company I worked for housed the southern hemisphere's largest super computer, for rendering, so I'm one of the few people who can say that I have run ffmpeg on an 80,000 core machine.

Sometimes I also do podcasts.

Podcasts

  • Gnu World Order is my personal Linux cast, and as far as I know the first podcast to release shows in Ogg Vorbis and Speex formats only (that is, no proprietary codecs are offered). The show discusses any geeky topic I want to cover.
  • Fedora Reloaded was a show that me and a friend had inherited and ran for a while, but sadly our schedules became to disparate to manage. The show died a quiet, untimely death.
  • Hacker Public Radio is a daily podcast for which I am a correspondent. I cover lots of different things on this show, including interviews with KDE devs, Fedora people, and even an episode on how to create an RPM using rpmbuild.

Contact

  • Email: klaatu at the domain of the third podcast listed above
  • Matrix: klaatu on matrix.org
  • Fedora Account: klaatu
  • Mastodon: @klaatu@mastodon.xyz
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