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Dag Wieërs
Roles
Wiki contributor
- 3rd party RPM packager
Contact information
Email: <dag AT wieers DOT com>
Website: http://dag.wieers.com/
Goals
- Get more people involved in the CentOS project
- Improve communication inside the project
- Promote CentOS at conferences and giving CentOS presentations
- Improving wiki, forums and mailing list archive search results
- Improving wiki and website aesthetically
Achievements
- CentOS on Laptops wiki-page
- CentOS Pulse newsletter
- CentOS Promo SIG and events
TODO list
- Bi-weekly Newsletter for the foreseeable future
- Improve leadership inside of the project
- Work towards a central "extras" repository open to everyone
- Improving hardware support (elrepo?) and desktop functionality (rpmforge?)
- Lower the barrier for people to contribute to this project
Biography
Short
Dag Wieërs a long time Linux user, Open Source developer and, professionally, freelance Linux and Open Source consultant.
Long
Since Dag Wieers started with computers as a 8 year old kid logging onto Bulletin Board Systems and FidoNet, he has seldom been spotted without one. During his college years he worked as an independent Linux consultant for various companies after which he founded his own Linux consulting company with friends. Due to differences in management style and strategy and despite the success, he sold and withdrew from his company to be hired by IBM Belgium where he maintained the internal Linux systems and consulted customers on Linux and Open Source usage. Last year he switched back to being self-employed and has been working for international companies and banks ever since.
During his professional life until now, he gained experience in automating system administration tasks, analysing system problems and designing future-scalable solutions, as well as operating a small company. Dag is known inside the Linux community for his work on a huge RPM software collection, writing and maintaining Open Source tools and advocating Open Source practices.
You are invited to take a look at some of his utilities: dstat, dconf, mrepo, wiipresent sarah and unoconv
Scratch area
Free flow of ideas, thoughts, links and wagawaga
