[ZF] introducing myself

[Chris McDonough]

Thank you for the introduction, Arolodo!

- C

On Jun 26, 2006, at 1:30 PM, Aroldo Souza-Leite wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> these have been unusually hectic Python and  Zope days in some  
> organizational circles. I apologize for not having found the time  
> to introduce myself in due form.
>
> Aroldo Souza-Leite, German citizen with Brazilian background, born  
> in 1952, living in  Bad Godesberg (near Cologne), Germany, since  
> 1975. I went to school in Rio de Janeiro and  in Brasília, Brazil,   
> and then in Hopkins, Minnesota, USA. After a Bachelor’s  from the  
> Universidade de  Brasília I came to Germany, where I achieved a  
> Master’s degree in Mathematics (Diplom-Mathematiker) from the  
> Universität  Bonn with a minor in Physics. Since then, I’ve been  
> active as a mathematician  in different areas between the academic  
> and the industrial worlds.
>
> While working in a larger software development project about six  
> years ago,  I discovered Python as an alternative to the  
> programming languages on which that project was based. This took me  
> also to Zope, for which I then started to evangelize on different  
> stages in Germany and in some other European countries. I held  
> talks in the three last Europython conferences in Charleroy,  
> Belgium, and Gothenburg, Sweden.
>
> Up to now, the Zope 3 Common Criteria Certification project (Zope  
> 3C, http://www.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ 
> ComponentArchitecture/CommonCriteriaDocumentationTasklist/ 
> Zope3SecurityEvaluation ) has been my main source of experience in  
> managing meta-technical Open Source undertakings. I initiated the  
> Zope 3C campaign, found its start-up sponsors and led the first non- 
> technical  negotiations with the German IT security agency  
> officially in charge. My present role in this project is that of  a  
> link between the IT security auditors, the Zope community and the  
> project sponsors.
>
> The Python and Zope political activities I’ve been involved in have  
> always been heartily supported by my  “constituency”, the Rheinland  
> Zope user group, which is a branch  of the German Zope User Group  
> (DZUG, http://www.zope.de).
>
> I am a basically untechnical person. Apart from Mathematics, my  
> main area of intellectual activity is Classical Languages.
>
>
> Zopistas from all over the world, unite!
>
> Aroldo.
>
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