Welcome and good evening.
Coming in here, you might be interested in
Debian,
Luma,
LDAP,
Python,
sailing or
cross-country skiiing and telemark.
Debian
I maintain some packages
in Debian, and before they're uploaded to the official
archives,
I put them on my private archive for testing the packages and
initial usertesting of the software.
Put the following into your /etc/apt/sources.list to test packages before
they hit the official archives.
'deb http://www.grotan.com/luma/ ./'
My latest builds of Luma (mainly pre-builds) are to be found at
http://www.grotan.com/luma/build
Python
My favourite programminglanguage is Python.
Be it for inhouse-integration or opensource solutions such as
Luma or
Cerebrum. Some of these snippets thats not
part of any system are to be found here.
LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol)
I've been working with LDAP since 2000 - managing ldap-servers, making ldap-enabled applications,
designing trees and schemas etc. Most of the applications have been for inhouse-systems, like
white-pages etc. You can find my collection of schemas I've found around the web
here. After some time working with LDAP from a python-perspective, I came in contact
with Wido Depping, the author of Luma and started working with him.
First some small stuff, like patches, translations, then packaging Luma for Debian, co-admin Luma
on SourceForge as well as doing misc development on the codebase.
Sailing
I've been doing competitive sailing since 1999. In addition to the local regattas
in the mid-part of Norway, I also participate in more (inter)national regattas
such as Færderen, Hovdan-Skagen and Hollænderen. During the summer of 2004 - I was
so unfortunate to break my left ancle. Summer of '04 became a very long, long summer.
In the end, I was so fed up of not sailing - that I rigged an Yngling for solo-sailing
and went out on my own with casket on my left leg :-D
Skiing and outdoor-activities
Recent year, I got a kick of doing cross-country skiing. A pair of Fischer SCS classic training-skiis
and Fischer shoes to go with them and carbon poles made this winter very active on my part.
In the 90's I went through quite a number of MTBs. Each of them got stolen, one after the other.
Over the years, I've had a Scott (yellow) , a Cannondale M500 (carbon black), a DBS Intruder LX2000 (black and white)
and now I own one DBS Spinova Touring (grey/carbon) and a DBS Intruder LX2000 (yellow).
Summer of '94 - I found an old kajak on the shore by the farm at my grandparents. It got used quite a bit
that summer, for then to be forgotten and put back in the barn. I have a long term goal to rebuild and redesign
it, so it will be in a usable state again.
If you want to reach me - you can find me as Gagatan on ircnet,opn,freenode,efnet,netgamers.