JoergSimon

Joerg Simon

Fedora Ambassador jsimon@fedoraproject.org Address: Laurentiusstrasse 14 D-71282 Hemmingen Germany IRC Freenode-Nick: kital on Channel #fedora-de Blog: http://kitall.blogspot.com

OSS related work

• Mentor for new Ambassadors
• founding member of "Fedora EMEA" NPO
• Creator of the Fedora-Poloshirt
• Event SWAG & Equipment Production
• "The Driving Eventbox"
• Baden-Wuerttemberg:Open Source Layer LDAP Workgroup
• FedoraLibraries
• Linuxtag 2006
• FAD EMEA 2006
• FOSDEM Brüssel 2007
• CLT 2007
• Linuxtag 2007
• FAD EMEA 2007
• FOSDEM Brüssel 2008
• CLT 2008 Preparation Day1 Day2
• Open Expo Bern 2008 Day1 , Day2
• Linuxtag 2008, Day0, Day1, Day3, Day4

Fedora Pics

• Fedora Ambassadors Day 2008 Pictures
• Fedora Ambassadors Day 2007 Pictures
• FOSDEM Brüssel 2007 Pictures
• FOSDEM Brüssel 2008 Pictures
• CLT 2007 Pictures
• CLT 2008 Pictures
• LinuxTag Wiesbaden 2006 Pictures
• LinuxTag Berlin 2007 Pictures
• OpenExpo 2008 Bern

Person

Joerg Simon was born in 1971 in Gera, Thüringen (East-Germany). He lives in Baden-Württemberg with his wife Sabine. His first contact with IT related stuff was in the middle 80's (KC85 ) at School. In the early 90's he joined the German Army for 12 years where he was NCO (Rank E-8) in a data processing unit in the first 4 years. He trained and worked in databaseprogramming(Generalized Information System) on UNIX Mainframe Computers. Later he changed to another unit and attended a UNIX based GIS System (HEROS ) for display location and situation in battle scenarios. During the last 4 year he led the Information Management Department in the same Unit and improved his knowledge in IT Security. At the same time in 1996 he used Linux to join smaller units on one Information System via RAS, supported by a colleague and friend (crenz ). He learned quickly that RedHat was the Distribution for his requirements - like now Fedora - and decided to dedicate a part of his life to the FOSS World. After his time in the Army he worked 2 years as an instructor for an it-training-center. During this time he also promoted Linux in several presentations and scripts. He changed to the HIC AG in 2004 and was in charge for the company IT. Today he is working as a Technical Consultant in the Security Team of HIC AG and because he uses Fedora as a platform for security testing and monitoring he work on Fedora to bring in or bring back OSS Security Test Applications like dsniff or others. In the other Hand he works on OpenSource Projects like the LDAP Workgroup BW.

Awards&Certifications

• Fedora Ambassadors Recognition Awards March2007
• RHCE
• RHCA Exams EX436&EX423
  (Verify my Redhat Exams )
• MCSE ;-)

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