Chris Tyler
Joined 1 September 2007
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For schedule and office location, see Chris' homepage.
Random info about me...
- Industrial Research Chair at Open Source Technology for Emerging Platforms in the Centre for Development of Open Technology (CDOT)
- Professor in the School of ICT at Seneca College, Toronto
- email: chris.tyler@senecacollege.ca (students: use this address, put your section ID in the subject line) or chris@tylers.info
- ctyler on irc (moznet#seneca or freenode#seneca)
- Course timetable online at http://ict.senecac.on.ca/~chris.tyler
- Linux fanatic, especially Fedora
- X11 fanatic, especially multiseat systems
- Former member of the Fedora Project Board (F10-F11, F13-F14)
- Member of X.org
- Does programming and consulting on the side
- Lives in Toronto; married with two grown daughters
- Has lived in Toronto, Vaughan, Waterloo, Muskoka, and Woodstock, Ontario; Victoria, BC; and Calgary and Standard, Alberta
- Enjoys camping, biking, baking, cooking, photography -- but doesn't have enough time to do much of those things these days
- Co-chair of the Free Software and Open Source Symposium (FSOSS) 2007-2009 and has helped organize FSOSS since its inception in 2002
- Original founder of TeachingOpenSource.org
- Has programmed for a living in 20+ languages (including: 6809 assembler, Multics PL/1, C, FoxPro, Perl, Python)
- Author of Fedora Linux: A Complete Guide to Red Hat's Community Distribution (O'Reilly 2006) and X Power Tools (O'Reilly 2007)
- Was once the writer/editor of the Fedora Daily Package
- Once upon a time, blogged on the O'Reilly Network
- Blogs irregularly on his personal blog
- Posts more often on http://google.com/+Chris_Tyler (Google+)
- Tweets on http://twitter.com/chris_tyler are usually automatic reposts from Google+ (above)
- Facebook posts are automatic reposts from twitter (above). Don't bother with Facebook!
Draft documents I'm working on: