[Mageia-marketing] quick self-introduction

Thu May 24 16:22:41 CEST 2012

Hi,
+
+I just subscribed to the list and I'd like to introduce myself to the
+team quickly.
+
+My name is Rupert Horstkötter, I'm 31 years old, I'm living in
+Ober-Ramstadt, Germany and I'm studying business administration and
+electrical engineering at TU Darmstadt. I'm a Linux enthusiast and
+contributor since around 10 years now, started with Knoppix,
+(open)SUSE, etc etc and then settled to Ubuntu as my operating system
+of choice (+ some ArchLinux & Mac OSX). I always was very much
+interested in various Linux related topics, tinkering, tried numerous
+distros on occasion and still do.
+
+>From a more "professional" perspective I have quite some background
+with FLOSS marketing and community management/building. That said, I
+have been employed at and around SUSE three times now in various
+capacities: E.g. I served as a project manager for the initial launch
+of the openSUSE forums [1], I have been involved in a restructuring of
+the openSUSE wiki [2] and I have been an openSUSE board member for a
+two-year term from 2009 to 2011 ... besides other things (Weekly
+Newsletter, etc). Just to give a brief overview of my "history".
+
+As of Mageia and the reason I'm here: I passively followed the
+creation of the Mageia project almost from day 1 and I feel that
+you're doing an awesome job both from a community building and
+technical/distribution perspective - my honest appreciation. Following
+a Virtualbox installation of Mageia 2 (yes, I was just too curious :p)
+and some research on Mageia's website, I decided to join the
+mageia-marcom list.
+
+All that said, I'm currently quite busy finishing my studies at
+university and thus I won't be able to contribute too much actively at
+least from a short term perspective, but I somehow perceived it as a
+good idea to finally get in touch closer by subscribing to the list.
+I'd like to follow the mageia-marcom discussions a bit if you don't
+mind for the time being and I could imagine to get involved in some
+(or the other) capacity, i.e. contribute, from a longer term
+perspective as I feel you a likeable team looking at the ML archives -
+We'll see.
+
+Thanks,
+R
+
+[1] http://forums.opensuse.org/
+[2] http://en.opensuse.org/Main_Page
+-- 
+Rupert Horstkötter
+Email: rhorstkoetter at opensuse.org
+IRC: rhorstkoetter on irc.freenode.net
+LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rhorstkoetter
+