KorkyKathman
About Korky
Korky is Manager of Supply Chain Manufacturing at Glovia International, a division of Fujitsu Corporation. He heads all North American Technical Sales Efforts, supporting 12 representatives. He also owns Entropy Dynamics, LLC, an enterprise dedicated to small business IT consulting and web marketing. He has been in the IT arena since 1978, after graduating from the University of Texas at Dallas with his Masters Degree. He lives in the Dallas, Texas area, is married and has three children ages 16-23.
On IRC
Korky has been working with Linux since 1996, where he's tried multiple distributions including SUSE, Debian, Libranet, RedHat, Fedora, and now Ubuntu. You can find him most of the time on #kubuntu-offtopic and #kubuntu His screen name is kkathman.
Linux Installation
Entropy Dynamics, LLC (http://www.entdyn.com) is run on a home network that includes 4 Windows XP boxes, and 3 Ubuntu Linux boxes. All web development is done on the development linux box which is a home built AMD Sempron 2500+ based system with 1GB memory. The other two linux boxes are used for file servers and a small testing server. Windows boxes are used sparingly, and dedicated to multimedia design.
Contributions
Korky serves on Fujitsu-Glovia's interdepartmental team for Linux awareness and training, supplying both technical and non-technical support for internal and external projects. He has been involved in the alpha, beta and finial rollouts of an Enterprise Resource Planning suite on Linux that is used by companies worldwide. He also works on a consulting basis with several small businesses in the Dallas, Texas area, aiding in their implementation on Ubuntu and RedHat implementations. Korky is also a member of the Launchpad New Member Team that helps new users of Ubuntu/Kubuntu get up and running efficiently. He spends upwards of 8-10 hours a day in #kubuntu helping solve day to day issues, especially in the area of KDE configuration and networking. He is also an active member and poster to Kubuntu-Central (http://kubuntu-central.blogspot.com).