Hello there.

Here's my proper introduction to the list. My name is Ilya, my IRC handle is thesharp. I live in Moscow, Russia (GMT+4) and work as a Senior Linux Systems Administrator. I have a Linux experience since 2003. I have a huge interest in package maintenance (it's another topic though), puppet management and using nagios to monitor my things.

Recently when I was thinking about what to do with some of my free time, I've decided to give something back -- to help the community and the Fedora project. I have no problem spending some of my work time at $dayjob helping Fedora Infrastructure since when you are doing something -- you learn something, and learning is always good thing to do. The main problem I see is my $TZ. When it's noon in US [the meeting time] -- it's 11pm here in Moscow. :) But since i'm going to bed late it's no problem for me to attend Fedora Infrastructure meetings.

Currently I see some open tickets about monitoring things and I think I can help with that.

At my $dayjob I use openvz for virtualization so I would like to learn how is it on the other side -- kvm thing. As Fedora Infrastructure use RHEL6/kvm instances I see it as a great place to watch how things are going on and learn a bit.

I already made my introduction at #fedora-meeting today so I would like to be added to fi-apprentice group to start watching over how things are working and suggest fixes to some tickets. In the future I would like to be sponsored in sysadmin-noc group.