User:Romal

Robert M. Albrecht

Contact

• Email: romal AT fedoraproject DOT org
• IRC: romal at freenode, when online you can find me on #fedora channels
• Jabber: romal AT jabber DOT fsfe DOT org
• GPG key: 0x7994DAC0
• SIP: romal AT ekiga DOT net
• Fedora username: romal
• Location:: Near Bremen, Northern Germany
• Homepage: http://www.romal.de
• Blog: http://blog.romal.de

Activities within Fedora

• My first contact with Linux was a an ill fated try to compile the newly announced Linux-kernel on my Minix system. It could not get it compiled, so I dumped it. Some months later, after finding the SLS, I installed my first Linux system and has been a constant user since. I used SLS, Slackware, SuSE and DLD. Finally I switched to Redhat 4.x as Redhat was the only distro shipping the required libs for running an SMP enabled kernel. I stayed with Redhat since then.

• We use various members of the Redhat family in our company.

• I worked as an instructor for Redhat system administration for some years and published a number of articles and books on operating-systems including Linux.

• I attended Cebit 2006 for CaCert and Cebit 2008 for KDE / Fedora

• I attended the Fedora Ambassador Day and LinuxTag 2007 & 2008 in Berlin. Most time I was occupied by explaining the OLPC to visitors.

• 2007-04-20: We helped "The Greens" (large German party) to do an OpenSource and Linux event for kids and schools: http://www.gruene-neustadt.de/index.php/Tux_Kinderfest_2007

• I'm a founding member of CCC Bremen (http://www.ccchb.de)

• I try to test Rawhide on my 32 and 64 Bit systems.

• Responsible for Froscon 2008

Packages

• usb_modeswitch
• Nagios
• Nagios plugins
• some Nagios addons
• german man pages
• OTRS