Hello,
My name is Brandon Vincent and I'm a system administrator who has a immense passion for open source software and the free software movement. While I'm mostly a GNU/Linux and BSD user, I also have a good deal of experience with commercial UNIX systems.
My areas of expertise and research interests include security, cryptography, and system hardening. I am presently a member of the Fedora Security Team, where I work jointly with packagers and upstream developers to ensure that security fixes reach Fedora packagers in a timely manner.
In my opinion, the Fedora Project is one of the only GNU/Linux distributions that provides an stable and reliable platform that can be easily utilized to satisfy a wide variety of applications, from individual workstations to large data centers. I'm sure many of the SIGs have made this possible.
I'd love to become more involved with the Fedora Project. I have a lot of free time on my hands which I would like to contribute to an project and philosophy I care greatly about.
So without being too egotistical, I would like to self-nominate myself for the open vacancy in the Fedora Server Working Group.
If anyone has any questions for me, or would like to start a conversation about security or free software, my FAS/IRC username is bvincent.
Brandon Vincent
On Tue, 2014-11-25 at 23:42 -0700, Brandon Vincent wrote:
Hello,
My name is Brandon Vincent and I'm a system administrator who has a immense passion for open source software and the free software movement. While I'm mostly a GNU/Linux and BSD user, I also have a good deal of experience with commercial UNIX systems.
My areas of expertise and research interests include security, cryptography, and system hardening. I am presently a member of the Fedora Security Team, where I work jointly with packagers and upstream developers to ensure that security fixes reach Fedora packagers in a timely manner.
In my opinion, the Fedora Project is one of the only GNU/Linux distributions that provides an stable and reliable platform that can be easily utilized to satisfy a wide variety of applications, from individual workstations to large data centers. I'm sure many of the SIGs have made this possible.
I'd love to become more involved with the Fedora Project. I have a lot of free time on my hands which I would like to contribute to an project and philosophy I care greatly about.
So without being too egotistical, I would like to self-nominate myself for the open vacancy in the Fedora Server Working Group.
If anyone has any questions for me, or would like to start a conversation about security or free software, my FAS/IRC username is bvincent.
Welcome, Brandon! We're always looking for people willing to participate, especially those who will step up and be "do-ers". Please come join us in #fedora-server as well as this list. We tend to do most of our high-bandwidth chatter over there.
Thank you for throwing your hat into the ring! There's plenty you can do to help in the short-term: we're going into the final release phase of Fedora 21, so any help we can provide QA in testing the test composes and release candidates would go a long way.
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