SorenHansen

About me

Name: Søren Hansen

Location: Aalborg, Denmark

Age: 24

Occupation: Software developer / systems administrator / FOSS consultant

I have no formal computer related education, but have been been hacking (in the good sense of the word, obviously) for 15+ years, and have been employed in the IT industry ever since I finished "high school" 5 years ago.

I'm a quite new Ubuntu user, but I have run a variety of Linux distributions for the past 10 years, namely Slackware, Redhat and lastly Debian for the past 5-6 years.

A bunch of the developers at the company for which I work run Debian, so I've created a bunch of small Debian packages containing mostly configuration files and dependencies for them and me to use to ease administration.

Sometimes when I come across a bug, I'm a stubborn bastard and sometimes spend hours or even days trying to track down a bug that in the end might just be a typo in a configuration file.. But hey, I've come up with some really cool swear words!

My work on Ubuntu

I've participated in just a few thing in Bugzillas yet, but more is bound to come. None of it is really worth mentioning.

I've made packages of Mbuni (Open Source MMSC mentioned below). They can be found here: http://mbuni.sf.net/debian

I somehow seem to be ignored by the Debian mentors, and the Ubuntu maintainers suggest that I should become a Debian Developer before becoming a Ubuntu developer or at least get my packages into Debian, so that they will automatically be part of Ubuntu, so I'm in kind of a deadlock right now. Until I can catch someone's attention, my own packages will be on my own homepage. These packages currently include drivers for the Fujitsu Lifebook Touchscreen and a notification applet for Evolution, both of which can be found [http://www.warma.dk/ubuntu here] along with my signed Code Of Conduct.

My other FOSS work

I've done some work on an open source MMSC called [http://www.mbuni.org Mbuni] also mentioned above.

I've contributed a few minor things to Ximian Evolution, Liferea RSS reader, mod_musicindex, the Debian kernel-packages and few other things.

About a year ago I worked on a kernel patch implementing a common uid/gid mapping system in the kernel. This should make it easier to mount "foreign" filesystems and use it seamlessly (NFS mounts with different user databases, an ext[23] filesystem from another desktop machine, a Samba share from a server with the UNIX extensions enabled, etc.) I never finished it, but just took it up again and expect to finish it during the summer.

I've started work on a convenience library called [http://sf.net/projects/libagi libagi] for interacting with the Asterisk PBX via AGI.

Contact

IRC: shawarma@irc.freenode.org (#ubuntu) (Quite sporadically)

MSN: sh@warma.dk

ICQ: 9604660

PGP fingerprint: 196A 89ED 78F3 9047 2A36 F327 A278 DF5E E8BD A4E3 (Short id: E8BDA4E3)

E-mail: sh@warma.dk