Greetings all!
My name is Nicholas van Oudtshoorn - long time Fedora user, first time (hopefully!) contributor.
One of my jobs (apart from being a church pastor) involves taking care of the IT systems for a local seminary here in Perth, Western Australia. We've been running Fedora on our servers for several years now - basically because it's the distro I find the most intuitive! As part of my duties, I manage the seminary's library software - Koha. Although this runs fine under Fedora, quite a few of it's dependencies are not available in the Fedora repositories. Given the number of libraries using koha (big and small - check out http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_Users_Worldwide ), I suspect that rectifying this could be of some use!
To this end, I've started packaging up build requirements. The first package I've made (boy - it's more complex than it seems at first :-) ) is for the Zebra database engine. After that, I'd like to work on the perl packages that are missing. (CPAN is useful - but yum is *so* much easier!) I'd also like to see about updating the yaz package. (yaz is currently available in Fedora - but is quite a few versions behind the upstream)
Anywho - just thought I'd introduce myself. I've loved using Fedora over the last years - and am excited about the possibility of giving something back.
Nicholas van Oudtshoorn
On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:20:24 +0800 Nicholas van Rheede van Oudtshoorn vanoudt@gmail.com wrote:
Greetings all!
welcome!
My name is Nicholas van Oudtshoorn - long time Fedora user, first time (hopefully!) contributor.
One of my jobs (apart from being a church pastor) involves taking care of the IT systems for a local seminary here in Perth, Western Australia. We've been running Fedora on our servers for several years now - basically because it's the distro I find the most intuitive! As part of my duties, I manage the seminary's library software - Koha. Although this runs fine under Fedora, quite a few of it's dependencies are not available in the Fedora repositories. Given the number of libraries using koha (big and small - check out http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_Users_Worldwide ), I suspect that rectifying this could be of some use!
To this end, I've started packaging up build requirements. The first package I've made (boy - it's more complex than it seems at first :-) ) is for the Zebra database engine. After that, I'd like to work on the perl packages that are missing. (CPAN is useful - but yum is *so* much easier!) I'd also like to see about updating the yaz package. (yaz is currently available in Fedora - but is quite a few versions behind the upstream)
Anywho - just thought I'd introduce myself. I've loved using Fedora over the last years - and am excited about the possibility of giving something back.
Excellent. Welcome to the fun!
kevin
On 04/27/2011 10:20 AM, Nicholas van Rheede van Oudtshoorn wrote:
Greetings all!
My name is Nicholas van Oudtshoorn - long time Fedora user, first time (hopefully!) contributor.
One of my jobs (apart from being a church pastor) involves taking care of the IT systems for a local seminary here in Perth, Western Australia. We've been running Fedora on our servers for several years now - basically because it's the distro I find the most intuitive! As part of my duties, I manage the seminary's library software - Koha. Although this runs fine under Fedora, quite a few of it's dependencies are not available in the Fedora repositories. Given the number of libraries using koha (big and small - check out http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_Users_Worldwide ), I suspect that rectifying this could be of some use!
To this end, I've started packaging up build requirements. The first package I've made (boy - it's more complex than it seems at first :-) ) is for the Zebra database engine. After that, I'd like to work on the perl packages that are missing. (CPAN is useful - but yum is *so* much easier!) I'd also like to see about updating the yaz package. (yaz is currently available in Fedora - but is quite a few versions behind the upstream)
Great, you can join Perl SIG ;-) We can help you with reviews of Perl packages. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Perl
Anywho - just thought I'd introduce myself. I've loved using Fedora over the last years - and am excited about the possibility of giving something back.
Nicholas van Oudtshoorn
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