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Hello, Planet!

Ahoy, Planet Fedora! I’m Trever Fischer, one of the newest Fedora Ambassadors.

Let’s start off by saying some mildly interesting things about me. Right now, I’m a computer science student at the University of Akron. I’ve been using Fedora since Fedora Core 3. Between classes and campus involvement, I’m an active KDE hacker.

I only recently joined the Fedora Project as an Ambassador because I’m sorta embarrassed by the lack of open source software here on campus. Our computer science department has a strong emphasis on it, but the rest of the university treats it like a horrible plague. Sad, I know. This is exactly why I’m in the elections for senator for our associated student government. I’ve got a strong platform aimed at reducing our dependency on proprietary software and the campus technology budget by pushing for more free software. Do we really need 25 new computers for every dorm’s computer lab? Considering IT services is forcing vista upon everyone, yes. Do we need to have expensive microsoft certified contractors come in and ‘improve’ our wireless (which was working just fine before they did)? No, we’ve got students who are supposed to be learning that kind of stuff. Some are even already employed by the university to do things like that. Give them some real world experience, I say.

Our elections are running until this Thursday at noon, and the results announcement is at 4pm. Hope I win!

One Response to “Hello, Planet!”

1. Christoph

   March 10, 2009 at 8:33 pm

   Hi Trevor, welcome aboard! I’m sure our KDE guys would be more than happy if you joined the KDE SIG, because they could need a helping hand.

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