User:Keichwa

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Karl Eichwalder

Edith, Scott, and me (2005). Taken by Thomas Rölz

I work as a technical writer for "SUSE Linux Products", a Novell company in Nuremberg. Besides writing and editing as a member of the Documentation Team team, I maintain software components coming with openSUSE: SGML and XML related packages, small GNU Emacs add-ons, and various translation packages (YaST, update-desktop-files, etc.). Some of these packages I also maintain as projects of the openSUSE build service: XML Tools or keichwa's Home Project.

I am a co-maintainer of the Free Translation Project (TP) hosted at http://www.translationproject.org/ .

I studied art history and German literature at the University of Göttingen (Germany). In 1986 I gained my degree of the master of arts (M.A.). During the next years I re-worked parts of the "Dehio: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler/Niedersachsen" (Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments/Lower Saxony) under the guidance of Gerd Weiß.

Then I was employed by a small computer shop for nearly 2 years, learned GNU/Linux under auspices of Eberhard Mönkeberg, and joined the S.u.S.E. company in 1997. In August 2005 I went on a two-weeks business trip to Dublin where I exchanged experiences with the Novell Localization team. In 2006 and 2007 I participated in the wonderful Novell outdoor events organized by the nice suse.cz people in Prague (Harachov and Kašperský Mlyn). Since 2006 I am learning the Czech language...

My home page is in German: http://www.gnu.franken.de/ke/ (partially out of date)