Chris Tyler

Random info about me:

• ctyler on irc (Mozilla#seneca or freenode#fedora)
• chris.tyler@senecac.on.ca (students: use this address, put your section ID in the subject line) or chris@tylers.info
• Linux fanatic, especially Fedora
• X11 fanatic, especially multiseat systems
• Professor in the School of Computer Studies at Seneca College, Toronto
• Does programming and consulting on the side
• Lives in Vaughan with his wife and two daughters
• Has lived in Toronto, 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 2007 (FSOSS 2007), October 25-26 -- I'll see you there, right?
• Has programmed for a living in 20+ languages (including: 6809 assembler, Multics PL/1, C, FoxPro, Perl)
• Author of Fedora Linux (O'Reilly 2006) and an upcoming book on the X Window system
• Writer/editor of the Fedora Daily Package
• Blogs irregularly on the O'Reilly Network
• Blogs somewhat more frequently on his personal blog (learn more about me there)

ToDo List - May/June/July/Aug 2008

• Come up to speed on Python, TurboGears
• Become package maintainer for at least 2 packages
• Fedora-Seneca
  • In conjunction with Fedora community, develop the project list for LUX
  • Plan strategy for LUX, Fall 2008
• Support Dave in the development of the Mozilla DRK (specifically: Fedora-based Live CD and VMWare image)
• Conferences
  • FUDCon F10, Boston, June
  • OLS, Ottawa, July