[hblug] Introducing myself

[Nevyn]

Hi Ralph,

It might also be worthwhile checking out the NZLUG. Hawkes Bay LUG is
cool and funky but you get abit of a cross section of all the other
LUGs in NZ by hanging around the NZLUG scene.

On 9/18/06, Ralph Slooten <axllent at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there people.
>
> I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself as the latest
> member of your small Hawke's Bay Linux community. My wife and I just
> moved from The Netherlands to New Zealand. Officially we are here for a
> 1-year working holiday, however we do plan on staying if we can get
> settled in this time.
>
> My family (parents and 2 brothers) moved here 3 years ago, and while
> looking for a place to host my website I was introduced by my youngest
> brother to Daniel Faulknor who linked me up to this list/group and has
> invited me to your monthly get-together (hope you don't mind ;-) ).
>
> Back in Holland I was working for a small company doing sales, support
> and system administration. Our (the company's) main function was the
> sales & support of the Pervasive SQL database (http://www.pervasive.com)
> which basically a direct competitor of the "famous" Microsoft SQL. I was
> employed at the company for my Linux knowledge and experience, as the
> Pervasive database software also runs on Linux. Anther "side-project" of
> the company was the selling, installation and support of a Dutch Linux
> distribution based on SuSE called "NetServer"
> (http://www.connectux.com). I was in charge of this branch as well as
> our internal servers (SuSE & Gentoo) at the company.
>
> I have been using Linux now for about 8 years now, and after going
> through the more "standard" distributions (RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake,
> Debian) I finally settled on Gentoo as it was the only one I could mold
> to my specific needs and design the way I wanted.
>
> Linux is of course also my hobby which is how I got first involved with
> it, and I have been involved in many software projects over the years.
> Although I don't program (C/C++), I do a lot of beta-testing and
> scripting as well as websites, databases etc.
>
> Anyway, now we have just arrived in Napier and are planing of soon
> finding a job (if you have any ideas please let me know), and of course
> a place to stay (an almost-30-year-old with wife living with parents
> just isn't that cool now is it ;-) )..
>
> I look forward to hearing and meeting some of you.
>
> Kind regards,
> Ralph
>
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