- Name: Simon 'kharv' Yergeau
- Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Login: kharv
- Language: French
- Profession or Student status: IT helpdesk expert / Major in
Philosophy / Returning to school this fall in translation
- About You:
- I majored in philosophy and since teaching was not for me,
I have spent the last 7 years working in call centres (IT
helpdesks). I have been always offered promotions, but was
not interested, since IT is not really my cup of tea... I am
basically a password-reset expert :P
- I enjoy IT as a hobby but always have found it stressful
as a job. My knowledge is vast, but mostly general. I know
QuickBasic, Pascal, C, PHP, HTML, but superficially; I can
build a computer from scratch; and I'm learning about Linux
every day which I truly enjoy.
- The open source mentality has great appeal to my core
values as a human being.
- I have taken a great interest in translation work as of
late, and it will complement very nicely my ambitions to
become someday a published author. I have self-published my
first novel using Lulu dot com, and I am currently working
on my fifth (in french).
- I look forward to gaining some field experience while at
the same time giving something back to the community; I have
enjoyed Fedora for nearly 3 years on my home computers, it
is a great product.
- I have already done some translation work for a website,
chesstempo dot com, which is a site dedicated to improving
chess players. Since I was enjoying the work, I decided that
I would make a new career path out of it. Chess is a major
hobby of mine and I regularly engage in local tournaments,
having even won some prize money a few times!
- You and the Fedora Project:
- At this time I am not interested in other Fedora projects,
I wish to practice and improve my translation skills. Fedora
has been my distro of choice for nearly 3 years.
- GPG KEYID and fingerprint:
- ~ $ gpg --fingerprint 1DBA8597
pub 2048R/1DBA8597 2015-02-05
Key fingerprint = 9D54 7AEC 1477 15CE E57F A9B0 7977
E54A 1DBA 8597
uid Simon Yergeau (kharv) <info@cloclotron.net>
sub 2048R/E9ECE304 2015-02-05