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Iván Ariel Weinberg
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Personal information
Location: Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Birthday: May 4th, 1988
Homepage: bagnulinux.blogspot.com
E-mail: {{{ivan.w1988@gmail.com}}}


Fedora-specific information
FAS name: igeek88
Fedora e-mail: igeek88@fedoraproject.org
Fedora homepage: igeek88.fedorapeople.org
 

About me

Greetings, Fedora enthusiasts! =)

Welcome to my humble presentation page. I will try to sum up some basic information about me.

The human and non-geek sides

I was born in San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina on May 4th, 1988. My parents are called Nora and Gustavo. I have a younger brother called Aníbal who is trying to become a chemistry technician. He plays the electric guitar and does backing vocals on the band he's in. I have a daughter called Uma.

I studied English between years 1996 - 2005 and attended FCE Examination. However, I feel my foreign language knowledge is a bit rusty sometimes.

My non-IT hobbies include:

  • Swimming.
  • Rollerblading.
  • Walking (and also trekking when I'm not in the city).
  • Going to the cinema.
  • Writing poetry / short social-related essays.
  • Reading in general.
  • Playing the piano.
  • Singing.
  • Attending metal and classical concerts.
  • Teaching.


The geek side

I was raised by two Computer Science professionals, developed interest in computers since an early age. First OS used was DOS back on 1991/1992/1993. Mainly using basic commands and playing video games under my dad's supervision.

I've dived into the wonderful GNU/Linux world as a self-taught enthusiast at first. Usually installing and breaking the operating system. Almost at the same time, I started reading forums and writing posts in them. Later on, I bought a couple of books and I finally took a leap of faith when I started taking some courses. I'm currently studying to become an IT infrastructure technician with a bit of knowledge from 'the dark side' (A.K.A. Windows), with plenty of networking, infrastructure, and GNU/Linux (mainly CentOS / Red Hat family).

My first distro was Ubuntu 09.04 back on April / May 2009. I came into this wondeful world thanks to a friend, who lent me a CD of that OS's Version.

I've fallen in love with Fedora since the moment we've met back in 2012/2013, and love it even more since, along with it's spins, and/or remixes. I currently have it installed on all the boxes I usually use: Fedora LXDE on my netbook, and Fedora Jam on my main Desktop. My RaspberryPi has OpenELEC installed (non-Fedora-related media-center-like distro). I also have a headless notebook, but I don't remember what it has installed and I currently do not use it (I may in a distant future for synchronised automatic backups over LAN, but I will probably install inside it FreeNAS or a similar distro). Maybe some day I'll try Security and Electronic Lab Spins.

I've also read some hardware magazines in the past (Ages 15-17).

Latest work experience

  • I'm currently unemployed, but I'm planning to get a job soon and I like to constantly search new challenges / opportunities.
  • June 2014 - August 2014

Functional Testing at Intraway Corporation

  • March 2014 - June 2014

Technical Support Engineer at Intraway Corporation

Education

  • March 2014 - Present

Infrastructure Support Technician - Instituto Superior Tecnologico Empresarial Argentino (ISTEA)

KEY COURSES:

  • April 2013 - January 2014

Linux Career (combo of courses to get LPIC-1 Certification).

  • November 2013 - March 2014: Red Hat, Debian, Networking, and Ethical Hacking online courses.

How to contact me

IRC

  • ivotkl

I'm usually on #fedora, #fedora-ar, and #fedora-latam.

Forums

  • ivotkl

My most recent activity has been on linuxforums.org with that same nickname. I've used some others in the past.

Fedora Account

  • igeek88

Twitter

  • @igeek_88

Facebook

  • Iván Ariel Wishmaster

Skype

  • misplaced.man (I barely use it).

Where to read what I publish

Poetry blog

GNU/Linux blog

Random stuff blog