[hblug] Introducing myself

[Don Gould]

I would also recommend the CLUG List....

It's by far the busist in the country! :)

Cheers Don from Christchurch

Nevyn wrote:
> 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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