medigeek

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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

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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* My name is Elias Epirotes and I am a moderator at the Greek Ubuntu Forum. I know Savvas from the forum where he is one of the most valuable contributors. His knowledge of ubuntu and everything related to it is exceptional and he has helped a lot of members solve their problems.

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