* 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:
o 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
o 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.
o The open source mentality has great appeal to my core values as
a human being.
o 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).
o 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.
o 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:
o 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:
o ~ $ 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(a)cloclotron.net>
sub 2048R/E9ECE304 2015-02-05
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