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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

• Blog Twitter Identica

• 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)

Noted past activity:

• 2009: Python class for beginners: I used to co-maintain the forum for asynchronous python classes in Greek language: http://forum.ubuntu-gr.org/viewforum.php?f=55 - Several people helped and participated in the project (thank you people!). The project also led to the translation of the python book "A byte of Python" (big thanks to the translators!!). The classes are still helpful, full of information and tips for beginners.

• 2009-present: After the class ended, we kept a specific thread for answering python-related questions: http://forum.ubuntu-gr.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5094

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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* My name is John (my nickname is c7p), I am an active member of the Greek Ubuntu Forum, and Greek Editor of the Ubuntu Manual. When someone is seeking for help on forum, Savvas is one of the most willing members not only to give instructions but also to explain them what these instructions do. He is also willing to deal with any issue (either technical or not) and contribute to community, in every way he can.

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