[ossig] An Introduction

[Patrick Cheong]

Hello Peter...and welcome.

Peter Butler wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I met some of the members of this list the other night at Jaya Kumar's 
> fascinating presentation about the OLPC project, but I'd like to 
> introduce myself to the list in general (if it's not a breach of list 
> etiquette - if it is please let me know and I'll shut up!).
>
> I'm an independent software developer from New Zealand, about four 
> months ago I moved to Malaysia with my family to settle here long-term.  
> I use free/libre/open-source software in all of my work.  I'm a Python 
> programmer, mostly doing web development for companies in New Zealand 
> and Australia, although in the past I did J2EE and Java/SWT for 
> investment banks and insurance companies in the UK (a memory I'm trying 
> hard to suppress).
>
> I try to contribute to open-source projects but being an independent 
> developer I need to pay the bills first so my contribution is generally 
> limited to documentation, bug reports and helping out on forums.  Here's 
> one of the projects I'm building for a customer at the moment:  
> http://www.iworldpeople.com
>
> I'm interested in all aspects of free and open-source software, and 
> especially in making collaborative and distributed development work in 
> practice.  I'm also interested in the way free/open-source software 
> changes the way people view work and collaboration, and in the potential 
> for these ideas to permeate the rest of society - not just us techies.  
> It's been good to see the increasing coverage of free and open-source 
> projects in the Malaysian media recently.
>
> I run Ubuntu 7.04 on my desktop and laptop and Debian on the servers I 
> administer.  I've also been known to iSwear at the OSX iBox that my wife 
> iUses.
>   
Cool..another Debian and Ubuntu fan :-).
> If anybody has any questions about the free/open-source scene in New 
> Zealand or would like to know anything about New Zealand in general I'd 
> be happy to help out.  Thanks for reading.
>
> Cheers
>
> Peter
>
>
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