TimAdam
Contact
Launchpad: [http://launchpad.net/people/tim-adam]
Homepage: [http://tim.ultis.net]
Email: <tim dot adam at qutility dot be>
About me
I'm a Belgian (Flemish) ICT engineer interested in open source software development and network security. I maintain 1 FreeBSD, 2 RedHat enterprise servers but the rest of them are just plain Windows 2000/2003 since our clients are all running WinXP pro.
Although i have to work mostly on the Windows platform for my job, i try to invest some time to learn how to handle the open source platforms, since i feel i will be needing the experience within some years when Linux will take over the enterprise networks as Desktop OS. I believe that taking Linux as a desktop environment in the office would increase productivity...
The remaining time i develop network/intranet applications, websites and webservices. I ususally develop in one of these languages depending on my needs:
- Java (J2EE)
- Visual Basic (.NET)
- Perl
- PHP 4.x
Currently i'm learning Python because i ran into some troubles using mono for my .NET projects on linux. Python in combination with the Eclipse IDE: it's an unstoppable combo 
Teams/Groups
I'm not a member of any linux oriented group or team since i'm still searching for a good flemish team in the neighbourhood of Veurne/Koksijde. If you are a member of such team or you know who to turn to please contact me using my e-mail (if you could put ubuntu somewhere in the subject it would help to keep my inbox organised, tnx!)
Experience
I have tried out various Linux distributions at home such as Debian, SUSE, Mandriva as secondary OS and a load of live cd's such as Gnoppix, Knoppix STD, Helix, Gentoo before i found Ubuntu. I kinda like the way the Ubuntu community sticks together.
Currently i'm running Ubuntu BB as primary OS on my Travelmate 290 for over 1 year now, and i'm still learning new tricks thanks to the documentation & the forums. At work i recuperated an OldWorld G3 PowerPc that was about to be thrown away by installing Ubuntu on it. I have Ubuntu DD running on the Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 RC 2 platform on my workstation. Besides the small problem with the initial resolution settings wich was solved quickly by vim'ing xorg.conf, i had no troubles so far.
Todo
- Searching a local Ubuntu/Linux group
- Making more people Ubuntu-aware
- Bugtesting Ubuntu DD on the virtual server 2005 RC2 platform
Beeing more active on bugreports & translations