[wellylug] Introduction

[Wayne Koorts]

Hi WellyLUG,

Although I've been lurking on, and doing the occasional post to WellyLUG 
over the past month or so I thought that I should just introduce myself 
to the list since it looks like a close-knit group of people.

My name is Wayne Koorts.  I live in Cape Town, South Africa at the 
moment.  Our family is hoping to move to NZ in the near future.  I've 
been using Linux on-and-off for about 5 years, but so far this year it 
has been my primary OS and takes up the biggest part of my hard drive 
:-)  Gentoo is my distro of choice.

At the moment I belong to the Western Cape Linux User Group (since 2002) 
(www.clug.org.za) and the Schools Linux User Group (since January this 
year) (www.slug.org.za).  I was involved in Operation FreeTux 
(http://www.slug.org.za/freetux.php) which was featured on Slashdot, and 
I also did the SLUG t-shirt design.  I'm very much into 3D graphics and 
using Open Source tools for that (Blender, Yafray, Wings 3D, Art of 
Illusion).  This year I gave a combined CLUG / SLUG talk on Open Source 
graphics tools (I went on for 3 hours! :-) and later on gave a workshop 
on Blender.

I was a bit nervous as to what the state / uptake of Linux was in NZ, 
but I must say I'm very impressed so far.  It definitely looks like it 
is being taken more seriously there than it is here in SA.  I think, 
however that it is generally getting taken more seriously lately because 
of such big improvements in desktop use and all the noise around 
Internet Exploiter bugs / security holes.

I really hope to be an asset to WellyLUG and look forward to meeting you 
all on the other side :-)

-- 
Regards,
Wayne Koorts
Registered Linux User #330079
www.wkoorts.com - Updated 2004/07/12