KurtvonFinck

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Launchpad:

mneptok

IRC:

mneptok (freenode)

Email:

kurt@ubuntu.com

kurt.vonfinck@canonical.com

Location:

Montreal, QC, Canada

Who?

My name is Kurt, and I won't bog down this page with unnecessary personal details. If you want to know more about who I am as a person and what makes me tick, there are some external sites that may interest you. Among them:

My website

My GNOME blog

I'm a longtime free software advocate, however with a significant streak of pragmatism. I promise to understand and respect your principled position if you promise to understand and respect my pragmatism. Free software is a big tent.

What?

I'm employed by Canonical as a Senior Ubuntu Systems Support Analyst. It's a fancy way of saying I fix Ubuntu on servers and desktops, and I'm fortunate enough to be paid to do it.

I'm also an active GNOME Foundation member, although perhaps less so than in past years. I serve as part of the all-volunteer sysadmin team, mostly handling account requests and changes. I've been know to futz with GNOME's Mailman instance, as well. I also run the bots for the sysadmin IRC channel.

In the Ubuntu community I'm most active on IRC, where I serve as part of the ops team in the official channels. You can find me using the nick "mneptok." I'm happy to help users when I can, I only ask for a little understanding of my professional commitments to Canonical's paying customers. IOW, I may not /msg back in the first 12 seconds. Grab a juice box. Or a nap.

If you're a GNOME hacker or user, you can find me using the same nick on GIMPnet, the GNOME IRC network. I can be found in #sysadmin.

My status in both communities gives me a unique position to facilitate both conversation and action between the two. I consider this my privilege to serve, not a shoulder epaulet denoting some perceived rank. Feel free to ask if there's anything you think I may be able to do to help either project's interactions with the other.

How?

If you're interested in my free software interests, I use GNOME and OpenBox to get my GUI world running. I have a somewhat unhealthy deep affection for the Z shell, where I spend most of my day. I'm beginning to realize I have a Bzr addiction. My answer the the ancient Unix "what editor do you use?" litmus test makes most people squirm.

I use nano in the shell from years of pico keybinding familiarity (thanks pine!) and jEdit for a GUI editor.

You see, my favorite programming language is the one that results in the best implementation of the desired goal. I favor function over form, but will happily take both in equal measure. If it's light, clean, stable, and functional, I'm a happy man. I only wish I could demand the same of my own body.


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