User:Lrupp

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About lrupp

My name is Lars Vogdt (formerly Rupp - yes, I've married on 2006-12-29!) and I work for SUSE Linux in Nuremberg as a member of the Build Service Team and teamlead of the new Services Team.

Currently I'm responsible for

• all the "HR-stuff" for my team
• administration tasks for our R&D department
• helping packagers with their packages,
• the "STABLE" checkins (means: review and accept or reject the packages from our packagers bevore they find their way into Factory) together with darix
• maintenance check-ins (review/check-in fixed packages and patches for released distributions) together with Rudi
• server administration (our internal build servers needed for Research and Development and small parts of the external infrastructure)
• the "autbuild system" (our deprecated 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.)
• the CD- and DVD-Creation
• maintaining my own packages (luckily just a handfull at the moment)

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

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 (yes, I still have access to them)! I went to SuSE as the management there decides to create a school server in partnership with the City Fürth in 2003.

As my wife is a teacher on a secondary school, I help her with the computers in her school - and migrated her first school completely to openSUSE (2 Servers, 50 Clients, 300 people) - her new school currently runs at least the Open School Server.

As a member of the Build Service Team there's always enough work to do. But I think my most visible contribution to openSUSE is the Education Project. This includes packaging, writing documentation, hosting http://www.opensuse-education.org/ and maintain/develop the infrastructure behind it.

Real life hobbies

Yes, I still have some ;-)

I learned diving (CMAS silver) during my study. I'm also a trained lifeguard (I earned money as student with this and Truck driving :-) 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!

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" or "/msg 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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