<div dir="ltr">Ok, my turn, finally :)<div><br></div><div>I am 23 years old, born in Minsk, Belarus (Soviet Union at the time), but soon moved to the United States after 2 years on this planet. I began picking up an interest in computers at a young age and began getting involved in all sorts of things (website design, programming, computer animation, open source stuff, linux, etc..) And so, I have been using GNU/KDE/Linux for 10 years. The commit digest is the largest commitment I have made to an open source projects so far, and has been a wholly positive and enjoyable experience :) However, nowadays, I am quite the primitivist and keep my life simple and my body moving -- using computational devices of various sorts only when I need to for a specific task.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I studied anthropology-history for some time, cast off the reigns of academica, and am currently travelling the world working on my first large project -- an anthropology of life in Belarus during WWII. Little is known about what occurred there outside of small circles of Belarussian-born historians and yet in large the war occurred there -- totally devastating/reconfiguring 90% of the country. My interests have been looking at how people helped each other, various identity reconfigurations during the war, life in the forests as partisans/hideaways, and larger philosophical questions about "we"ness, overlapping singularities (identities.. jew, christian, russian, fighter, hideaway, etc) and enclosures (the boundaries and limits of these singularities/identities, spaces, bodies, and other kinds of spaces/places). I am allowing the focuses to unfold as I uncover the stories. Currently I am in Israel and soon plan to go to Belarus.</div>
<div><br></div><div>It has been a pleasure working on the commit digest and I will continue to help in whatever capacity I can. At the moment, it is reviewing, and I hope someone else will step up and help Marta with the synopsis once in a while! :)</div>
<div><br></div><div>health and well being,</div><div><br></div><div>Vlad</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Alexander van Loon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:a.vanloon@alexandervanloon.nl">a.vanloon@alexandervanloon.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Sorry for replying so late. To introduce myself, I live in the Netherlands, I'm 24 years old and I just finished a bachelor in<br>
History. Next academic year (start in September) I want to follow a master in Public Administration. Here –<br>
<a href="http://alexandervanloon.nl" target="_blank">http://alexandervanloon.nl</a> – I maintain a weblog.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
On Thursday 23 June 2011 21:20:33 Shafqat Bhuiyan wrote:<br>
> Hi Alexander,<br>
><br>
> Thanks for your welcome. I always enjoyed reading the commit digests and so<br>
> I was quite eager to contribute when Danny wanted to start it again. Now<br>
> after seeing the amount of work that is required, I am amazed at how the old<br>
> digests were produced so regularly.<br>
><br>
> About myself: I am 21 years old and living in New Zealand. Currently I'm<br>
> studying Computer Systems Engineering at university. My interests include<br>
> programming, technology, gaming, sports and comedy. I've been using linux<br>
> full time since about KDE 4.1.<br>
><br>
> In my spare time I've submitted a few patches and written some documentation<br>
> for KDE and made a few Plasma related plugins (which you can see here:<br>
</div>> <a href="http://kde-look.org/usermanager/search.php?username=priomsrb&action=contents" target="_blank">http://kde-look.org/usermanager/search.php?username=priomsrb&action=contents</a>)<<a href="http://kde-" target="_blank">http://kde-</a><br>
<div class="im"><a href="http://look.org/usermanager/search.php?username=priomsrb&action=contents" target="_blank">look.org/usermanager/search.php?username=priomsrb&action=contents</a>><br>
><br>
> Aside from that I've also worked on some other hobby projects like<br>
</div>> ascii-paint <<a href="http://code.google.com/p/ascii-paint/" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/p/ascii-paint/</a>> and ultimate zombie<br>
> fighters <<a href="http://uzf.sf.net" target="_blank">http://uzf.sf.net</a>>.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">><br>
> I don't maintain a weblog or anything.<br>
><br>
> Also I'd like to learn about other people working on the digest as well. So<br>
> feel free to introduce yourself.<br>
><br>
> PS: Is there an IRC channel for the commit-digest/enzyme? It would be quite<br>
> handy to get some quick communication.<br>
><br>
> Shafqat<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Alexander van Loon <<br>
> <a href="mailto:a.vanloon@alexandervanloon.nl">a.vanloon@alexandervanloon.nl</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> > Hello Shafqat,<br>
> ><br>
> > Welcome, thank you for helping us with the effort to produce the Digest.<br>
> > Could you tell us a bit about yourself or do you<br>
> > possibly maintain a weblog? I'm curious to know more about the people who I<br>
> > work with.<br>
> ><br>
> > Greetings,<br>
> > Alexander<br>
> ><br>
> > On Monday 20 June 2011 08:31:45 Vladislav Blanton wrote:<br>
> > > Hello and welcome to the digest mailing list! Thanks for joining in, how<br>
> > > would you like to help the team?<br>
> > ><br>
> > > You can check out our wiki here for initial questions and general<br>
> > > guidelines:<br>
> > ><br>
> > > <a href="http://community.kde.org/Commit_Digest" target="_blank">http://community.kde.org/Commit_Digest</a><br>
> > ><br>
> > > Vlad Blanton<br>
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