User:Chris Tyler
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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
- FUDCon F10, Boston, June