[TriLUG] MichaelC introduction

[Tom Eisenmenger]

Welcome aboard, Michael!  I''ve decided that I perhaps do need a 
fingerprint so I'll be signing up.  See you Nov. 14!

Tom

On 10/23/2013 10:50 PM, Michael Coburn wrote:
> Hello, I'm not sure if TriLUG does intro emails or not, but anyway here
> goes :)
>
> My name is Michael Coburn and I signed up for TriLUG yesterday -- I can't
> believe it took me this long!  I moved to the Triangle area in 2011 and now
> live in Holly Springs after having moved from Calgary, Alberta.  Yep I'm a
> Canadian (hometown is actually Toronto).  I have been a
> SysAdmin/Networks/DBA for almost 15 years and worked at sites such as
> iStockphoto, Getty Images, and iContact (now Vocus, based in Morrisville)
> and in the last 8 years have specialized in MySQL.  I currently work from
> home for Percona <http://www.percona.com/> as a Consultant where I provide
> MySQL and LAMP advice to all sorts of customers, large and small.
>
> I have been a member of the Toronto Linux Users Group and am a big Open
> Source proponent -- beyond Linux on the laptop, Android on the cell phone,
> Asterisk as the home PBX provider, and MythTV for home videos for the kids,
> at home I've displaced as much proprietary software as possible!
>
> So, I'm glad to be a member of TriLUG and I look forward to contributing to
> the quality of the discussions both on and off the list. I hope to meet
> many of you at the November 14th meeting regarding Cryptography and GPG.
> I'll be bringing my fingerprint so that we can continue to expand the web
> of trust -- can I count on meeting others who are willing to sign?
> --
> Michael Coburn
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelacoburn