welcome priomsrb!

[Vladislav Blanton]

Ok, my turn, finally :)

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.

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.

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!
:)

health and well being,

Vlad

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Alexander van Loon <
a.vanloon at alexandervanloon.nl> wrote:

> 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
> History. Next academic year (start in September) I want to follow a master
> in Public Administration. Here –
> http://alexandervanloon.nl – I maintain a weblog.
>
> On Thursday 23 June 2011 21:20:33 Shafqat Bhuiyan wrote:
> > Hi Alexander,
> >
> > Thanks for your welcome. I always enjoyed reading the commit digests and
> so
> > I was quite eager to contribute when Danny wanted to start it again. Now
> > after seeing the amount of work that is required, I am amazed at how the
> old
> > digests were produced so regularly.
> >
> > About myself: I am 21 years old and living in New Zealand. Currently I'm
> > studying Computer Systems Engineering at university. My interests include
> > programming, technology, gaming, sports and comedy. I've been using linux
> > full time since about KDE 4.1.
> >
> > In my spare time I've submitted a few patches and written some
> documentation
> > for KDE and made a few Plasma related plugins (which you can see here:
> >
> http://kde-look.org/usermanager/search.php?username=priomsrb&action=contents
> )<http://kde-
> look.org/usermanager/search.php?username=priomsrb&action=contents>
> >
> > Aside from that I've also worked on some other hobby projects like
> > ascii-paint <http://code.google.com/p/ascii-paint/> and ultimate zombie
> > fighters <http://uzf.sf.net>.
> >
> > I don't maintain a weblog or anything.
> >
> > Also I'd like to learn about other people working on the digest as well.
> So
> > feel free to introduce yourself.
> >
> > PS: Is there an IRC channel for the commit-digest/enzyme? It would be
> quite
> > handy to get some quick communication.
> >
> > Shafqat
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Alexander van Loon <
> > a.vanloon at alexandervanloon.nl> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello Shafqat,
> > >
> > > Welcome, thank you for helping us with the effort to produce the
> Digest.
> > > Could you tell us a bit about yourself or do you
> > > possibly maintain a weblog? I'm curious to know more about the people
> who I
> > > work with.
> > >
> > > Greetings,
> > > Alexander
> > >
> > > On Monday 20 June 2011 08:31:45 Vladislav Blanton wrote:
> > > > Hello and welcome to the digest mailing list! Thanks for joining in,
> how
> > > > would you like to help the team?
> > > >
> > > > You can check out our wiki here for initial questions and general
> > > > guidelines:
> > > >
> > > > http://community.kde.org/Commit_Digest
> > > >
> > > > Vlad Blanton
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