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Personal Information
Name: Savvas Radević
Nationalities: Cypriot, Serbian
Languages spoken:
- Fluent: Greek, English, Serbian
- Good: French
Occupation:
Student at the Medical Faculty of the University of Belgrade
Plans:
- Finish my studies and still keep using open source software.
- Promote use of open source software in Cyprus.
- Promote valuable open source solutions to every human being (that is, as much I can).
Self-remarks:
In a phrase? A medical student with quite an open-source mind!
I'm an active computer hobbyist that has achieved a level from mere beginner to a truly active problem-solver that can overcome most problems and accomplish most of day's computer work by using GNU/Linux and open source software.
I have been an Ubuntu user since early 6.06 Dapper Drake. I've started my contributions through IRC helping at #ubuntu, then started experimenting with different various contributions.
Here's a summary of my participation:
- Helping out in forums
- Coding (projects)
- Bug reporting/triaging
- Patches/debdiffs/packaging
- Helping out in IRC channels
I categorised my activity below. Some forms of participation are repeated.
Internet activity
- IRC: savvas at Freenode IRC Network (rarely nowadays) IRC Channels: #ubuntu-rs, #ubuntu-gr, #ubuntu-cy -- rarely at #ubuntu+1, #ubuntu-bugs, #ubuntu-devel, #ubuntu-motu, #ubuntu-locoteams
Activity could be tracked at http://irclogs.ubuntu.com (Google link) or http://logs.ubuntu-eu.org/free/ (Google link)
Community
CypriotTeam - Ubuntu Cyprus Local Community Team www.ubuntucy.org
Co-founder, LoCo Team contact (unofficial)
- Contributing in Artwork, Wiki pages, Mailing list administration
Website design & code
- Actively participating and helping in Ubuntu-gr community (Greece)
- Rarely participating in Ubuntu-rs community (Serbia) Forum usernames:
ubuntuforums.org - forger
ubuntucy.org - medigeek
ubuntu-gr.org - medigeek
Coding (projects)
- Current projects:
- Ubuntu-gr forum signature - Creates a signature with computer specifications and modifies the desired phpbb3 forum username. Handles login and can be customised.
Ubuntu-cy: Website design & code
- "Junk" (Rarely maintained) projects:
timekpr - Keep control of computer usage
surl - url shortening command
launchpad-ppa-fix - Updates the old PPA urls in sources.list and sources.list.d/*.list. Also gets the GPG keys of detected PPA repositories
packages2sqlite Creates an sqlite database out of apt's Packages.bz2 from the repositories
Launchpad
ID Link: http://launchpad.net/~medigeek
Mostly active in:
Bug reporting, confirming, debugging and providing useful information
- ubuntu+1 release testing (alpha/beta/release candidate) - rarely
Team Participation: https://launchpad.net/~medigeek/+participation
Noted past activity:
2009: Provided various patches and fixes during python 2.6 transition and boost (1.34) -> boost1.35
Debian
Noted past activity:
- Helped to package gnote
- Contribution (co-maintaining/learning) for libmtp8
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