Self-Introduction: Matthew Berg

[Matthew Berg]

1. Full legal name

	Matthew William Berg

2. Country, City

	United States, Buffalo, New York

3. Profession

	System Administrator

4. School

	No college/university diploma.

	Training courses:

		SCO Non-Stop Clustering
		SCO Webtop Administration
		SCO Network Administration
		Hands-On With HP-UX 11.00
		Hands-On With LVM And Mirrordisk/UX
		HP-UX System And Network Administration II
		HP-UX Troubleshooting
		Administrating Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
		Supporting Microsoft NT 4.0 Core Technologies

	Certifications:

		SCO Openserver ACE
		SCO Unixware ACE
		SCO Non-Stop Clustering Master ACE
		SCO Openserver Master ACE
		HP-UX Star Certified Professional
		LPI Level One

5. My goals in the Fedora Project

	Which packages?

		Main concern is security fixes for base system (e.g.
		util-linux, glibc) and server software (e.g. wu-ftpd,
		openssh) for Red Hat 7.2

	QA?

		Quite definitely.  I'll be reading over the threads
		on this over the next couple days and seeing where I
		can help.  (I've got not only permission, but 
		encouragment from my employer to spend my time on this.)

		If anyone is actively coordinating QA activity and wants
		to drop me a line you can either e-mail me, or catch me
		on IRC (I'm galt on EFnet, freenode, and gnome.org).

	Anything special?

		Nope. I'm pretty boring.  I just want to avoid upgrading
		for no better reason than there's something newer 
		available. :)

6. Historical qualifications

	Other projects?

		I'm part of the Ruby-GNOME2 project team, primarly 		working on
documentation, as well as a few small
		patches for Ruby/GTK2.

		Nothing much else of consequence, though apparently
		Ville Laurikari is using the spec file I did for his
		TRE package.

		I also did a spec for CRM114 for Bill Yerazunis.  He's
		holding off releasing a packaged version, however, since
		he wants to finish a code reorginization first.

	Computer languages and skills?

		Languages I work in regularly - perl, bourne shell, 
		ruby, C.

		A large part of my job responsibility is testing and
		deploying updates to our platform.  Even prior to the 
		EOL we performed our own QA, which caught a few
		potentially bad issues (e.g. the xinetd update having
		a default cps limit, when the prior version had it
		disabled).

		I also maintain the majority of our own RPMS, which
		includes both custom software and modified versions
		of existing software; e.g. rebuilding the 7.2 kernel
		with the ips 6.10 driver, kudzu and anaconda with the
		related pcitable updates, and rebuilding the kickstart
		images.

		Prior to my four year tenure at this company I worked
		support at Ingram Micro for Openserver, Unixware,
		Solaris, and HP/UX.

		Other platforms I've had experience with include AIX,
		OpenBSD, BSDI, Slackware, Debian, and SuSE.

	Why should you trust me?

		Because I'm a hoopy frood and know where my towel is.