Welcome to the community :)<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/6/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dimitris Glezos</b> <<a href="mailto:dimitris@glezos.com">dimitris@glezos.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Hi all. Posting a self-introduction message for anyone who would like to<br>reference or read it.<br><br><br>1. Full name - Dimitris G. Glezos (aka Jim)<br><br>2. City, Country - Patras/Athens (Greece), Limassol (Cyprus)
<br><br>3. Student status - PhD student<br><br> * Research interests: Semantic web, Interoperability, Information<br> integration & accessibility, Knowledge representation.<br><br>4. School - University of Manchester, UK (previously
<br> Comp Eng/ing @ CEID, Patras, Greece)<br><br>5. Your goals in the Fedora Project<br><br> * What do you want to write about?<br><br> - First of all, make Fedora have 100% greek support (that includes
<br> fonts that work, translations and docs).<br> - Contribute to the docs project and marketing.<br> - Goal: Increase the Fedora usage percentage in Greece and Cyprus.<br><br> * What other documentation do you want to see published?
<br><br> - More user-friendly tutorials.<br> - More complete and detailed roadmap, ideas etc, to enhance the<br> community spirit.<br><br>6. Historical qualifications<br><br> * What other projects or writing have you worked on in the past?
<br><br> Projects:<br> - Software patents: Worked for two years as greek coordinator for<br> the anti-software patents fight. Wrote a dozen press releases,<br> lobbyied several times in the EU parliament and worked a lot with
<br> politicians & the media; contacted and referenced me many times.<br> - Initiated & maintained the greek PHP manual translation<br> for 2 years (Docbook).<br> - LUGs: Coordinator of Cyprus LUG for some years.
<br><br> Writing:<br> - I write a lot in my weblog, which could be characterized as<br> "popular" in the greek tech world.<br> - Got referenced by some greek computer magazines for "Aloha 2.6"
<br> article about 2.6 kernel arrival.<br><br> * What level and type of computer skills do you have?<br><br> - Much experience with portal development, PHP/XML/XSLT, database<br> designing, scripting, Latex.
<br> - Portal/website usability & accessibility consultant.<br><br> * What other skills do you have that might be applicable?<br><br> - Good intuition/knowledge for usable UI design.<br> - Lots, LOTS of ideas coming and going for almost everything around
<br> me (warning: this sometimes gets people frustrated...)<br> - Amateur photographer and designer (websites, logos etc).<br><br> * Why should we trust you?<br><br> - Long-time FOSS and SwPat activist in Cyprus and Greece.
<br> - Coordinator and participant in many greek FOSS projects.<br> - Always used real name for all e-life activities.<br><br>7. GPG KEYID and fingerprint<br><br> pub 1024D/A5A04C3B 2002-09-23<br> Key fingerprint = ED86 AFE1 512D C8A6 241D 0975 8080 8A81 A5A0 4C3B
<br> uid Dimitris Glezos <<a href="mailto:dimitris@glezos.com">dimitris@glezos.com</a>><br> sub 3072g/B0CF5ACE 2002-09-23<br><br><br><br><br>--<br>Dimitris Glezos<br>Jabber ID: <a href="mailto:glezos@jabber.org">
glezos@jabber.org</a>, GPG: 0xA5A04C3B<br><a href="http://dimitris.glezos.com/">http://dimitris.glezos.com/</a><br><br><br>"He who gives up functionality for ease of use<br>loses both and deserves neither." (Anonymous)
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https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Regards,<br><br><br>Puneet Batura<br>Open Source Developer