[TriLUG] steering comittee nomination for John Davis

Jim Ray jim at neuse.net
Tue Apr 27 12:56:52 EDT 2004


I'd like to nominate John Davis for TriLUG steering committee.  He has had a
long standing interest and is destined to make a fine contribution.

Attached below is a history of TriLUG activity.

Regards,

Jim

Jim Ray, MCSE
Network Engineer
Neuse River Network, Inc.
2610 Vanderbilt Ave
Raleigh NC 27607-7247
tel: 919-838-1672 x201 toll free: 800-617-7652
http://www.Neuse.Net

> Trilug Activity
> o Active member since the early days where just after the UNC meeting but
>   before the CISCO meetings.
> o Active participant in the first Trilug project at the UNC Technology
> Expo
> o Volunteer for Linux Expo in Raleigh
> o Volunteer at a few installfests
> o Participant at Evening Linux Beer fests at Satisfactions in Brightleaf
>   square
> o Participant in RHCE classes
> o Active participant in #Trilug.  Joined before chanserv registration.
>   In the early days was an operator prior to "operators are for Steering
>   Committee members only."
> o Sparked a flame ware on the Trilug mailing list after the 501C
> incorporation filing
>   for posting job ads on the list.  Debated that it should be perfectly
>   legal to do so.  Now job ad's are acceptable as it should be. (Still
> thinks
>   its funny when thinks back to "crass commercialism" comment.
> 
> Linux Activity
> o Started using ygdrassil Linux in early 1990's.
> o Uses Linux everyday.
> o Works with the PowerPC Linux kernel developers.  Some work has been
> credited:
> 
> 	o  Original Developer
> http://ppc.bkbits.net:8080/linuxppc_2_4_devel/diffs/drivers/net/npnet.c@1.
> 1?nav=index.html|src/.|src/drivers|src/drivers/net|hist/drivers/net/npnet.
> c
> 
> 	o  Named contributor
> http://ppc.bkbits.net:8080/linuxppc_2_4_devel/diffs/drivers/char/ibmts_sem
> tech.c at 1.1?nav=index.html|src/.|src/drivers|src/drivers/char|hist/drivers/
> char/ibmts_semtech.c
> 
> o Maintains a web presence at http://www.skink.net since 2000 using Debian
> Linux on Sparc.  Never been
> hacked.  Never been DoS'd.
> o Big fan or Debian Linux, but has worked with Slackware, Red Hat, SuSE,
> and *BSD.
> 
> Other
> o Believes that vim/exuberant ctags can do anything.
> o Thinks this is a _really_ funny cartoon:
> 	http://www.skink.net/~davis/humor/




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