Hey Rafael, Welcome, I'm from Brasilia too (and former UnB student too, just a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, ops, this is from another place if I remember well). We can be in touch too plan the event in October in Brasilia, some kind of FISL in Catolica University. Teseu <div class="gmail_quote">2008/5/28 G <<a href="mailto:balajig81@gmail.com">balajig81@gmail.com</a>>: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi rafael <div class="Ih2E3d"> > Hey all, my name is Rafael Liu Santos and I'm from Brasília, the Brazil > capital. I'm a college student in Universidade de Brasília, third year (2 > more to graduate!). </div>Welcome Aboard ! Great to have you here as part of this project. <div class="Ih2E3d"> > Honestly my professional back ground is in Java, linux is something I love > to do any spare time I have. Said that I don't have any certifications or > this sorta things.. (I'm planning doing LPI next month, tho). Still I think > I have some contribution to make, as my college have lots of students and > our labs have linux and geeks there use linux at home and there are teachers > supporting it. I think it's a great environment to spread Fedora. </div>You dont actually need certifications. Passion to learn and be part of this project and of course some amount of time for this project is all that is required :) <div class="Ih2E3d"> > Recently I saw some Ubuntu DVDs being distributed and Sun ambassadors have > being talking about Open Solaris. Then I thought about all of that I've > written you and asked my self why not to engage Fedora and spice things up > there. </div>Fedora also has a Free Media Programme which is getting more and more focus so you could be part of that too and spread it :) Welcome once again ! Cheers, Balaji 2008/5/28 rafael liu <<a href="mailto:rafaelliu@gmail.com">rafaelliu@gmail.com</a>>: <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">> Hey all, my name is Rafael Liu Santos and I'm from Brasília, the Brazil > capital. I'm a college student in Universidade de Brasília, third year (2 > more to graduate!). > > I've started using linux with Gentoo, since then I've tried Debian and > Slackware before sticking with Fedora. I feel it's a great project and I'd > like to contribute, at first evangelizing which doesn't need much expertise, > but maybe later with something like some RPM package support. I'm a Java > enthusiastic too, and I've been longing to engage in some open source > initiative, which I really believe is a great idea. > > Honestly my professional back ground is in Java, linux is something I love > to do any spare time I have. Said that I don't have any certifications or > this sorta things.. (I'm planning doing LPI next month, tho). Still I think > I have some contribution to make, as my college have lots of students and > our labs have linux and geeks there use linux at home and there are teachers > supporting it. I think it's a great environment to spread Fedora. > > Recently I saw some Ubuntu DVDs being distributed and Sun ambassadors have > being talking about Open Solaris. Then I thought about all of that I've > written you and asked my self why not to engage Fedora and spice things up > there. > </div></div>> -- > Fedora-marketing-list mailing list > <a href="mailto:Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com">Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com</a> > <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list</a> > -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list <a href="mailto:Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com">Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list</a> </blockquote></div> -- "...don't underestimate the power of the dark side..."