User:Lrupp

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About lrupp

• the CD- and DVD-Creation (meens: if you have problems with an openSUSE CD (size doesn't fit, packages missing or on wrong CD), create a bugreport for lrupp@novell.com ),
• helping packagers with their packages,
• the "STABLE" checkins (means: I review and accept or reject the packages from our packagers bevore the go into Factory)
• maintaining my own packages in autobuild and in the Build Service
• helping our maintenance team
• the "autbuild system" (This is our internal build service which is developed since more than 10 years now. It uses icecream and other nice tools to build packages on all avalable developer workstations for all our plattforms and distributions.) - this is the "normal" job for us "autobuild guys" ;-) ),

My hometown is a small village near Seesen - in the Harz mountains.

My school server history

I've studied german and history to become a teacher - but never finished (puh ;-). But in my hands-on training I often checked the computer rooms in schools and most of them are unusable. So I decided to create a school server - and joined an existing team named GEE-Server, they used a S.u.S.E. Linux 6.4, Webmin and some special scripts to create an "easy-to-go" server for schools. We implement some additional features and provide updates since 2006. ...and so some of these servers run until today!

As my wife is a teacher on a secondary school, I help her with the computers in this school. Currently there is the old SUSE School Server, a Terminalserver (running openSUSE 10.2 and LTSP 4.2) with ~40 Terminal-Clients (most VIA-Epia based, some sponsored from Igel, some old Pentium II booting via PXE and some "normal" Linux Workstations running native openSUSE 10.2.

I went to SuSE as the management there decides to create a school server in partnership with the City Fürth. This "SUSE Linux School Server" was critically acclaimed - but has no great marketing. So the team leader decides to spin off the project - and so the development of this product was continued under the name Open School Server, by EXTIS GmbH. This server is based on the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and extended with some packages which are usefull for schools. So we don't have to develop all again - just a few specialised packages have to be maintained by Extis. The rest comes out of a professional distribution with long term support.

Currently the "OSS" (Open School Server) has reached version 2.5, which is a step to a more modularized base system. The goal is a "plugable" base system which can be extended via plugins. This will fullfill the requirements from ground schools up to trade schools better as the current system.

Interests / contributions to openSUSE

Real life hobbies

Yes. I have some ;-)

I learned diving (CMAS silver) during my study. I'm also a trained lifeguard (I earned money as student with this :-) and like driving my motorcycle. Other hobbies are small (electric) handicraft works, photography, reading books, cooking, ... and - the major hobby since the last months: my wife and my daughter!

openSUSE contributions

As a member of the Build Service Team I'm currently working on differnt things for this project. In december 2006 I joined the "one man show" openSUSE-Education Project with James Tremblay. With him I like to create a special add on CD containig applications for children.

But my first target is to give more information and documentation to create a really good distribution together.

At this time I'll prepare some technical informations:

• the Build Service Tutorial
• Build Service Tips & Tricks
• help James with the Education wiki sites
• create packages for educational use in the build service:
  • "Third party" packages for the OSS
  • "Test packages" which will be moved to the next repos, when tested enough
  • Desktop applications for educational use
  • Educational applications, that should run on a server
• create the Edu-cd for the next openSUSE distribution 10.3
• Currently I'm maintaining the new webpage for openSUSE-Education:

...but all this needs a very close collaboration with the tool developers and needs some time.

Packages

In particular, I'm currently official maintainer of the packages:

I'm also maintaining additional packages in the buildservice. Here are some Repos:

• My Homeproject
• Education Desktop
• Education Server
• Packages for the OpenSchoolServer
• X11 Fox

How you can reach me

• My personal homepage (currently german only)
• openSUSE-Education homepage
• ICQ: 71831460
• irc://irc.freenode.net/ => kl_eisbaer | Please use "ping kl_eisbaer" to get in contact with me - otherwise I might overlook your questions. Normally you can find me in the channels #opensuse-edu and #opensuse-project
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