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! The point is, I'm good a finding and squashing bugs.

For years I've wanted to work full time with free software and now I've actually done something about it. I've quit my job (last day of work is August 12th) and have started a consulting company ( http://www.linux2go.dk/ or http://www.linux2go.dk/en/ ) offering all sorts of services related to free software.

My work on Ubuntu

I've been working on [https://launchpad.ubuntu.com/malone/bugs/1089 this bug] in Malone.

I've been working on these couple of bugs in bugzilla: [https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8589 this one], [https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8716 this one] and [https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10429 this one].

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

I've created a few packages that I hope will be included in Ubuntu (and Debian) some day. 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.

I've managed to pursuade my workplace to use Ubuntu rather than Redhat or Debian. I think that availability of paid support did the trick.

And then there's the eternal evangelizing about Ubuntu to my friends, but I guess that should go without saying.

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

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