<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 4:07 AM, Larry Cafiero <<a href="mailto:larry.cafiero@gmail.com">larry.cafiero@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hello, all -- Allow me to join the parade of new ambassadors introducing ourselves.</blockquote><div> Welcome on board !!! </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> My name is Larry Cafiero, and most of my pertinent information can be found at my wiki page here: <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Lcafiero" target="_blank">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Lcafiero</a> In short, I am a journalist by profession, currently a copy editor at the Santa Cruz Sentinel in Santa Cruz, California, U.S.A. I am a returning student at Cabrillo College in Aptos, California, studying in the Unix/Linux Administrator Certificate program. I am currently the president of the Cabrillo College GNU/Linux Users Group.</blockquote><div> Interesting...Fedora certainly would get strength with people like you ! </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I consider myself a FOSS evangelist after finding out about -- and using -- FOSS programs during my campaign as the Green Party candidate for California Insurance Commissioner in the 2006 general election (270,218 votes, 3.2 percent). I have been a GNU/Linux and FOSS program user ever since. I used to be a distro-hopper, but I started using Fedora regularly while working on a project to convert dbEntrance, a FOSS browser for MySQL, from Macintosh to GNU/Linux. I found Fedora covers all the bases -- to use a baseball metaphor -- and it has everything that any one could want in a distro. As such, it represents GNU/Linux best of all distros currently out there. I look forward to working with Karsten Wade, another ambassador who lives nearby in Santa Cruz, in promoting Fedora. Most immediately, I am involved in the Lindependence 2008 campaign, which introduces GNU/Linux and FOSS to the town of Felton, California, with the intention of having them go "Microsoft-free" for one week in late July, as well as another effort by the Cabrillo College GLUG to convert charter schools in Santa Cruz County, California, to Fedora. If you have gotten this far without falling asleep, thank you. Larry Cafiero <a href="mailto:lcafiero@fixedbylinux.com">lcafiero@fixedbylinux.com</a> -- Fedora-ambassadors-list mailing list <a href="mailto:Fedora-ambassadors-list@redhat.com">Fedora-ambassadors-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list</a> </blockquote></div> -- Nayyar Ahmad RHCE (ID:804006858622745) Skype: nayyares Blog: <a href="http://nayyares.blogspot.com">nayyares.blogspot.com</a>