Hi everyone,
Seeing as the welcome email for this mailing list suggest I send something to this effect, I thought I'd introduce myself as a new member!
==This LUG== The reason I'm interested in this LUG is because I'm moving to Ipswich in the last week of August 2013. This is to start a new job with BT on their graduate scheme as a software engineer (I've no idea what I'm working on yet!). I don't know anyone in the area, but I think it'd be cool to meet people with similar interests. :)
==Linux Stuff== My interest in Linux originally started back in 2005 with live copies of Mandriva and Ubuntu (which I ran on my parents' computer to scare the crap out of them!). In 2007 however my parents bought me my first new laptop (512MB RAM) for college, but it came with Vista Home Basic pre-installed ...this didn't run well. The first distribution I ever committed to HDD was Ubuntu 7.07 "Feisty Fawn", which I dual-booted with Windows XP. Since then I've learned more about the philosophy behind open source and free software and try to use FOSS wherever I can. I also wandered around FOSDEM in 2012 (albeit with quite a hangover from the night before!).
Some of you may recognise my name. This is because aged 17 this happened: http://www.tuxradar.com/files/LXF113.roundtab.pdf. A few months later in March 2009 I wrote my first articles for Linux Format magazine. Apparently they liked me, so I was invited back to work at LXF towers the same summer, and then wrote articles as a freelancer from September 2009-November 2011 while doing my Computer Science degree.
I've tried a range of different distros (and even played around with Linux From Scratch) but I'm very much a Fedora user when I need to actually get things done! I'm currently teaching myself Python (I know it's a little overdue!) and am presently pondering whether to get a Raspberry Pi, Ouya or both!
==Contact Me== For people who want to find out more about me, you'll find me on twitter under the bob_moss handle, or you can check out my blog at http://jininga.com (I'll soon be replacing this with a Wordpress site I'm working on, which you can see @ http://beta.jininga.com).%EF%BB%BF
Bob