Revision as of 22:18, 31 March 2008

Random info about me:

ctyler on irc (Mozilla#seneca or freenode#fedora)
chris.tyler@senecac.on.ca (students: use this address, put your section ID in the subject line) or chris@tylers.info
Linux fanatic, especially Fedora
X11 fanatic, especially multiseat systems
Professor in the School of Computer Studies at Seneca College, Toronto
Does programming and consulting on the side
Lives in Vaughan with his wife and two daughters
Has lived in Toronto, Waterloo, Muskoka, and Woodstock, Ontario; Victoria, BC; and Calgary and Standard, Alberta
Enjoys camping, biking, baking, cooking, photography -- but doesn't have enough time to do much of those things these days
Co-chair of the Free Software and Open Source Symposium 2007 (FSOSS 2007), October 25-26 -- I'll see you there, right?
Has programmed for a living in 20+ languages (including: 6809 assembler, Multics PL/1, C, FoxPro, Perl)
Author of Fedora Linux (O'Reilly 2006) and an upcoming book on the X Window system
Writer/editor of the Fedora Daily Package
Blogs irregularly on the O'Reilly Network
Blogs somewhat more frequently on his personal blog (learn more about me there)

ToDo List - May/June/July/Aug 2008

Fedora Project
- Come up to speed on Python, TurboGears
- Become maintainer for 2 Fedora packages
  - PlanetVenus
  - ?
- Get Fedora multiseat project going
LUX/Seneca-Fedora
- Marketing -- finding 24 excellent students for LUX
- In conjunction with Fedora community, develop the project list for LUX
- Plan strategy for LUX, Fall 2008
- Spec out XMLRPC-VM management
  - Come up with a better name for this!
- Infrastructure
  - Local mirror
  - Mash test hosts (?)
  - Secondary content primary mirror (?)
CDOT
- Support Dave in the development of the Mozilla DRK (specifically: Fedora-based Live CD and VMWare image)
- Supervise and support summer student workers
FSOSS
- Planning w/ Rose
- Support Dave in developing the speaker line-up
Conferences
- FUDCon F10, Boston, June
  - Hackfest: Multiseat
  - Barcamp: Fedora-Seneca
- OLS, Ottawa, July
  - A Model for Sustainable Student Involvement in Community Open Source

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 ** Get Fedora multiseat project going
 * '''LUX/Seneca-Fedora'''
-** Marketing -- Finding 24 students to fill the seats
+** Marketing -- finding 24 excellent students for LUX
 ** In conjunction with Fedora community, develop the project list for LUX
 ** Plan strategy for LUX, Fall 2008