bruce
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Subject: [Ubuntu-scientists] Hello All, I'm here to contribute
Time (GMT): Jun 14 2014 06:45:33
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Hi there,
I have briefly met some people in the group during the UOS, prior obligations and some time confusion meant that I missed the Ubuntu Scientist meeting, but I still want to make my introductions.
Briefly: I work cross-discipline at the University of Californian Berkeley and UCSF in neurophysics (Formal education: experimental physics and pure mathematics). I have 8 years of linux experience with Ubuntu/debian being my primary working platform. Additionally, I have been linux exclusive for 4 years (outside of occasional VM's ;) ). I have been regularly able to assist many of my coworkers in using Ubuntu and other Linux systems for their work and convince some of them to switch entirely. Luckily my field already has a lot of dependence on linux so this was not too difficult.
I am most excited about introducing ubuntu and linux in a usable way to diverse fields. Particularly I am very enthusiastic about using lightweight virtualization and "system agnostic packaging" (i.e. docker) so that there is an easy and stable way to use diverse scientific software (which often depends on experimental, developing, or debian-unmaintained libraries) in the context of a stable linux environment, which to me has the most hope in Ubuntu LTS releases.
I work primarily as a developer and have software packaging experience (as well as ubuntu specific development) which I can detail later if the need arises. I feel that my combined outreach and development experience can contribute to this project (which I strongly believe in on a personal level) and would love to hear what subprojects you have going that I can possibly contribute to.
-Andrey Shmakov
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