<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi Alec and welcome to LA.<br><br></div>If you Google 'Andy Fitzsimon' and 'Simon Pascal Klein', the speed of Google's autocomplete might tell you something. These guys know stuff about FOSS graphic design. <br>
<br>-- <br></div>crash<br><br><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Alec Sloman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alec.sloman@99designs.com" target="_blank">alec.sloman@99designs.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,<br><br>This is my first message to your mailing list, so please let me start with a brief introduction.<div>
<br></div><div>My name is Alec Sloman. I'm 27, a recent first-time father, and a resident of Melbourne, Australia. I started with Cocoa applications, and gradually moved into web development. In the last few years, I've moved towards infrastructure which is where I first encountered Linux as a day-to-day. My main personal interest is in OpenStack, but in general, I love FOSS and believe that it's the most compelling implementation of a freedom-centric philosophy in the world today. I could be wrong on that. I'm still pretty green when it comes to the wider community, but am eager to get involved.<br>
<br>Currently I work at 99designs in Melbourne, Australia. My position is "Developer Advocate" which is essentially a "culture champion". I organize meetups, write blog posts, and do professional development for our technical team of 50+. Currently I'm the only dev who uses Linux on their desktop (Mint 15 with i3). I'm writing some provisioning scripts to make it easy for devs to get a working virtual environment with a Linux as the host machine. Hopefully I can get these people off Apple's evil teat. I think everyone would be happier and more productive.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I have a very specific reason for joining this group. Three weeks ago we moved into an amazing new office right next to Richmond station with a large presentation stage and multimedia equipment. I have a free mandate to put on technical events and I now have the chance to share this space with the FOSS community in Australia.</div>
<div><br></div><div>In particular, I am interested in organizing an event(s) along the lines of "Open Source Tools for Designers" with an emphasis on GIMP, Blender, etc. We have a sizeable community of designers from all across the world who pretty much all have pirated copies of Photoshop and it occurs to me that they could be a) using and b) contributing to free tools instead.</div>
<div><br></div><div>But I am not limiting discussion to design tools. Our tech team is generally pretty darn good and organize a number of events already. Actually, here's one that's coming up early in January for infrastructure coders:<br>
<br><a href="http://www.meetup.com/Infrastructure-Coders/" target="_blank">http://www.meetup.com/Infrastructure-Coders/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>More generally, I want to start a discussion with fellow FOSS enthusiasts about how we might use this space to do some good. This mailing list seemed like a good place to start. I was referred to you from this thread on Reddit:<br>
<br><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comments/1sac1c/any_expert_users_of_gimp_out_there/cdw6475" target="_blank">http://www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comments/1sac1c/any_expert_users_of_gimp_out_there/cdw6475</a><br>
<br>Any thoughts? I'd love to work with you guys!<br>
<br></div><div>Regards,</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>-- <br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#ff6600" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>ALEC SLOMAN</b></font><br><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<font color="#333399" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Developer Advocate</b></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><font color="#ff6600">E</font><font color="#333399"> </font></b><font color="#333399"><a href="mailto:alec.sloman@99designs.com" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">alec.sloman@99designs.com</a></font></font></div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,153)"><a href="http://99designs.com/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">99designs.com</a></b></div>
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