Introduce yourself Openfur Edition

[linkthegamer]

Greetings all, I am Linkthegamer, Current serving figurehead here at Openfur. The point of this this first newsletter is to be a platform to get to know each other as we all merge into one big happy team. So tell us as little or as much as you want about yourself, be sure to at least mention what you help with or can do in the project. I will start.

Name: Linkthegamer Xavier Knight

Age: 19 going on 20

Gender: male

Fursona: green and teal rouse (rat/mouse) shapeshifter (occasionally with wings)

Former position in Ufurmix or CreatureS: Assistant project manager of CreatureS

Position in IRC: Operator

Current given position (if any since we are a meritocracy): figurehead

Other projects you have worked on: Game Design for DemonSkunk Studio, stuff for my own company Linkthegamer inc.

Current OS: Win 7 home prem.

Current VMs: Win XP (XP mode version), Newest ubuntu, various other forms of linux and other *nix, a Hackintosh image of OSX leopard, a copy of w/i/ndows (xp version... 7 version is to big to download ATM) to study the inner workings of.

Codes/Languages you know: HTML (it is a markup language... no whining), TIBASIC, MS BATCH, Some android java, some Dragonscript, some linux Shell, enough of most to be able to mod them but not code them.

Languages you speak: English, squeak, bark, meow, various forms of pokemon, pig latin, some Spanish.

Country of origin: USA

Timezone: EST (gmt +4/+5)

Feel free to ask me anything as you tell me and everyone else about yourselves.

Let me close by saying I am glad to be working with you all. Have a great day. ^_^

~linkthegamer, Figurehead of Openfur

[Crazd Foxx]

why do i feel like an employee of a small company that just go bought out by the big man? lol

---

Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 14:12:20 -0700
From: linkth...@gmail.com
To: ope...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Introduce yourself Openfur Edition

[Сергей]

Oh cute! I'll join!

Name: Sergey Davidoff IRL, Shnatsel on teh Internets, but the nick is meaningless
Age: 17 (yeah, I was a 15 y/o kid when I started ufurmix!)
Gender: male
Fursona: Just a generic lion
Former position in Ufurmix or CreatureS: The One With PPA Upload Rights (until Lucid at least)
Other projects you have worked on: OMG, I don't remember X) Ubuntu, lost of minor stuff in various areas, own project Ubuntu Imfundo, now working on elementary project, managing DEB packaging and eOS image optimizations.
Current OS: Ubuntu Maverick on desktop, Bodhi Linux on a laptop back from 2001. Don't have a single Windoze(TM) installation in my house! :P
Current VMs: too many to enumerate XD
Codes/Languages you know: HTML, CSS, BASH, C (core but not libs or practical use), used to know VB, Debian packaging, lots of minor stuff used in GNOME desktop, like GTK/Metacity/.desktop/etc
Languages you speak: Russian, English, Latin, Ancient Greek (forgot most of it already), studied German and Swahili but don't remember them at all
Country of origin: Russia
Timezone: GMT+4, Moscow

I'm into programming and design, some drawing also, but I keep that quite personal. A fan of The Lion King >:3

why do i feel like an employee of a small company that just go bought out by the big man? lol

Perhaps that's because we're finally getting some structure and organization? ;)

--
on teh Internets, Shnatsel

[Kiefer Jackson]

Name: Kiefer Jackson Kifura Ikasuchi on the webs (also Thunderxfox)
Age: 20
Gender: male
Fursona: A Swift Fox
Former position in Ufurmix or CreatureS: Attempt at KDE variant. Cancelled do to change in direction for the Devs. Can give it another shot though if you want.
Current OS: Linux Mint 10 (Gnome 2.x)

VM: Android 3.0 Honeycomb and Chromium OS
Languages you speak: English
Country of origin: Romania

Timzone: GMT -4h Eastern time

Dont know much on programming. but I am very familiar with Linux derrivatives. Have over 20 distros on discs.

[linkthegamer]

No fear, you have not. We are not G4 or Orakill. This is A+B becoming C not A+B becoming the new A.

If you have any worries just voice them to me and I will clear them up and/or eat them if they are stubborn X3

~linkthegamer, openfur figurehead

[linkthegamer]

nice to meet you ^_^

I need to get new Chrome OS and Honeycomb ISO... the android emulator just doesn't cut it.

I am sure after we get the first version of our linux out that we will be happy to work on variants with KDE and XFCE and whatever else seems worthwhile to invest resources in.

~linkthegamer, openfur figurehead

[Crazd Foxx]

Name: CrazdFoxx (not crazed) AKA Foxie...birth name: Brady
Age: 20
Gender: male
Fursona: A Red Fox
Former position in Ufurmix or CreatureS: made a FurMix logo screen saver and worked as a project leader for a short time as a last futile effort to keep furmix its own project before the project was given to CreatureS... i obviously failed in this effort... but i have an open mind on this "merge" and im ready to help out in any way i can.

OS:  Windows 7 Pro. and Furmix  Karmic
Languages you speak: English
Country of origin: United States......whats left of it >.>

Im very versatile, if i don't know how to do it i can quickly learn. i mod hardware build PCs and make furry themed case mods for laptops game consoles and cell phones...i used to do a lot of game mods and my own little simple games...
i have the majority of my programming experience in HTML, CSS some SQL, java script and Windows batch programing.
i thend to have conflicting views on where the project should go and what the OS should look and feel like. but im usually a nice guy. and i mean the best for this project and want only what is best for it.

[Soul Retriever]

Name: Soul Retriever / SoulTheGolden

Age: 19

Gender: Male

Fursona: Creme Golden Retriever with pink markings over my body.

Former position in Ufurmix or CreatureS: Attempting to learn CMS in order to re-design the CreatureS website.

Current OS: Windows 7 Pro

Codes/Languages you know: HTML, PHP, C++, Bits of JavaScript and some SQL

Languages you speak: English

Country of origin: England (UK)

Timezone: GMT

 

I’m not too good with programming but I'm eager to help in anyway that i can.

 

Soul Retriever.

[linkthegamer]

as you know we are glad to have you aboard.

and name a furry who doesn't like lion king X3

~linkthegamer, openfur figurehead

[linkthegamer]

Man you make it sound like you just got snatched by M$. I swear i am not gates... but i am no crazy RMS... maybe Trovalds without the whole Finnish recluse thing.

We are now a whole new project, the merge was mutual. We both gained and lost some. But we are going to make a better OS then we could alone. Don't think of this has a buy-out, think of it as two groups of linux loving fuzzballs banding together to make the best OS for the fandom.

~linkthegamer, Openfur Figurehead

[linkthegamer]

Glad to have you aboard Pup.

~linkthegamer, Openfur Figurehead

[Adam]

I will introduce myself too :3

Name: Admc

Age: 17

Gender: male

Fursona: blue wolf

Former position in Ufurmix or CreatureS: I don't know x3

Position in IRC: Operator

Current given position (if any since we are a meritocracy): I don't know x3

Other projects you have worked on: I'm translator in FSFE, I'm redactor in ubuntu-pomoc.org too

Current OS: Linux Mint 10

Current VMs: Android 2.3, Kolibri OS, Puppy Linux, React OS, Tiny Core Linux, Windows MX 8.1, Windows 1.0

Codes/Languages you know: Basic HTML, bash

Languages you speak: Polish, English.

Country of origin: Poland

Timezone: CET/CEST (gmt +1/+2)

[Xorrito]

Fur Name: Xorrito
Real Name: Ricardo
Age: 19
Gender: male
Fursona: grey fox
Former position in Ufurmix or CreatureS: helped out with little things in ufurmix, gave ideas, and tested stuff
Position in IRC: none
Current given position (if any since we are a meritocracy): close maximize and minimize fur windows buttons.
Other projects you have worked on: nothing really.
Current OS: current Ubuntu
VMs: ??
Codes/Languages you know: Basic HTML
Languages you speak: Spanish, English.
Country of origin: Mexico
Timezone: Arizona (gmt -7....i think)

On May 4, 2011 4:48 AM, "Adam" <ad...@ufurmix.org> wrote:

[linkthegamer]

Awesome collection of VMs you got there.

~linkthegamer, Openfur Figurehead

[linkthegamer]

ah, Como esta usted? (my Spanish is a bit rusty)

VMs is Virtual Machines ran in stuff like VMware, VirtualBox, Parallels, or (Tux forbid X3) Virtual PC.

~linkthegamer, openfur figurehead

[Xorrito]

Muy bien y udsted? And ah well i don't have any vms then

xorrito :3

[foxofinfinety]

I'll also introduce myself

Fur Name: Foxofinfinety (pronounce: fox of infinity)
Real Name: Richard
Age: 19
Gender: male
Fursona: Folf (fox/wolf mix)
Former position in Ufurmix or CreatureS: "web dude" (anything DNS and
FTP related, also only one with FTP access to the server and owner of
the domain name), beta tester and beta-team leader (e.g. if needed I
handle any requests for someone to be a offical beta tester, this
includes managing the forum team and making anouncements to the
beta-team regadring new stuff to manage)
Position in IRC: none
Current given position (if any since we are a meritocracy): same as I've
always done, unless told otherwise.
Other projects you have worked on: company-intern development (ASP.NET
with Visual Basic and C#).
Current OS: Windows 7 Professional, Mac OS X 10.3, Mac OS X 10.4, Mac OS
X 10.5, Ubuntu 11.04, Kubuntu 10.10 (not all on one computer).
VMs: currently none, usually Windows XP Pro Corp edition, Windows 98SE,
and a beta for the upcoming ubuntu.
Codes/Languages you know: HTML, CSS, some ASP.NET, some basic Visual
Basic, C and C++
Languages you speak: Dutch, English
Country of origin: the Netherland
Timezone: CET/CEST (GMT +1/+2)

[linkthegamer]

I think you will keep doing all the web stuff AFAIK.

~linkthegamer, openfur figurehead

[Theyain Riyu]

I thought I would do this as well.

Names Theyain, also go by Theyain the Fox (gamer tag), Cheshire, and Cheshire Theyain.

I'm 22

I'm a male, but I like to cross dress (and like very good while do it) :3

My fursona is a fox

Former Position in CreatureS:  I ran, started and pretty much was the guy who thought up this whole 'furry distro' thing.  It started with Furbuntu, then became CreatureS and is now the merged thingy that I call Feral.

IRC: troll :P :P :P j/k

Current position:  No idea. 

Other projects:  To many to name.  All private and *costly*

Current OS: Ubuntu 10.10  I also have a debian based server running on my home network for things such as Minecraft.

I don't have any VMs.  My netbook hates VB  :E

Lang: C, C++, C#, Python, a smidgin of Java, and others I can't think of.  I know C++, Python, and TI-Basic the best.  Also, I know English :P

TZ: EST

Shnatsel, did you finish the email addings yet?  Gonna ask this in IRC as well.

Final question to everyone:  Would you if you could???

[Soul Retriever]

Would we what? *is confused*

Sent from my HTC

----- Reply message -----
From: "Theyain Riyu" <theyai...@gmail.com>
To: <ope...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Introduce yourself Openfur Edition

[Xorrito]

Ish confused as well, oh and i have a server too, ubuntu based and also for many things, minecraft being one of them too :3

xorrito :3

[linkthegamer]

Hehe, i think you are the oldest one here.

Depends on what is, likely i would.

I might need to post a little more about me, i so you all know some of the general knowledge stuff that will likely start to pop-up about me once this project gets popular (and trolls start sending pizza to my house).

Orientation: Asexual/straight (RL), Bi/Tri (online)
Religion: Mormon (RL, not anti-gay, i love my gay friends), Agnostic (online)
Weird stuff i like: Soft vore (cartoonish), Paws, Macro/micro.(yesh I know I am weird.)
I am open to doing all kinds of stuff in RPs when online but doesn't mean I like it,

On that subject feel free to contact me for personal or professional reasons, I like to talk.

Sorry this is a kinda odd post, but I let you know this stuff now since it will easily come out about me later, and to show that trust you all. I mean if Theyain can trust you with the fact he does a bit of drag I can trust you with

As an added bonus half the silly stuff I say will now make sense.

~linkthegamer, Openfur's (quite silly) Figurehead

[Xorrito]

Lol

xorrito :3

[Kito Soma]

Name: Kito Soma

Age: 21

Gender: Male

Fursona: Brown Husky

Other projects you have worked on: Game Design for DemonSkunk Studio, stuff for my own company Linkthegamer inc.

Current OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit / Ubuntu 11.04 64-Bit / CentOS

Current VMs: More distros than I care to list.

Codes/Languages you know: HTML, CSS.

Languages you speak: English, Japanese, ASL.

[linkthegamer]

Hehe you left MY other projects list in silly. nice to have you aboard though.

[Crazd Foxx]

Crazd foxx AKA foxie or Brady
Gender:male
fursonna: red fox
Other projects you have worked on: im a modder, i make mods for just about nay electronic, i like to do furry mods, make our everyday devices represent our unique lifestyle and personality a bit more. and thats why i am very serious about this project.

Current OS: Windows 7Pro 64-Bit / Ufurmix 9.10 the best version IMO

Codes/Languages you know: HTML, CSS, java script.

Languages you speak: English only

Country of origin: USA

---

Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 00:16:34 -0700
From: kito...@gmail.com
To: ope...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Introduce yourself Openfur Edition

[Pereh]

Name: SlugRav
Gender: Male
Fursona: Lynx

Other projects you have worked on:

A few personal programming projects, a lot of beta testing
Current OS: Windows 7 HomePrem x64/Ubuntu 10.10/Android 2.3.3 (HTC Desire)
Coding languages you know: C++ (very beginner), C# (beginner), VB.Net (intermediate), HTML (basic)
Languages you speak: Polish, English, a bit of German.
Country of origin: Poland
Timezone: GMT+1

[WolFi]

Name: WolFi (Marocs in rl)

Age:21

Gender: male

Fursona: gray wolf

Former position in Ufurmix or CreatureS: guess noone xD

Position in IRC: never gone over there

Current given position (if any since we are a meritocracy): dunno

Other projects you have worked on: Family company web design (done some kind of cms), Some personal projects.

Current OS: Ubuntu 10.04 with ufurmix as main os, Win 7 as gaming os, IOS, and in a near future android.

Current VMs: i hate vms, but some times, just for testing stuff, ubuntu server, or windows xp / 7.

Codes/Languages you know: HTML, CSS, PHP, (basic) SQL, (a bit of) Java, and a lil bit of others (but not enought to mention it)

Languages you speak: English and Spanish

Country of origin: Spain

Timezone: UTC +1

I quickly learn almos everything (dont give me a book to study it), i also own a server for my web pages, mail, backups, music, and some other stuff that can cross my mid. Dont know what else say about me, if you wanna know anything, just ask XD.

[Crazd Foxx]

great to have you aboard!

---

Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 11:22:39 +0200

Subject: Re: Introduce yourself Openfur Edition

From: kich...@gmail.com
To: ope...@googlegroups.com

[Crazd Foxx]

okay wolfi, would you be interested in helping me make an amplet that can synch up with FA and give updates? FA runs SQL witch i have a very basic idea how sql works. but i think i could really use your help on the application... it will eventually be able to sych up with other furry networks like so furry and furspace ect.. but FA is basic and simple and very popular a great starting point for this portion of the project. granted, we do need to figre out what linux distro were going to be tearing appart to buld this new and improved furry OS... ideas?
PCLOS is a very decent OS maybe a good choice for our project. its bult on KDE...

---

Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 04:56:12 -0700
From: fur...@gmail.com
To: ope...@googlegroups.com

Subject: Re: Introduce yourself Openfur Edition

[WolFi]

Sure, ill help (as long as i have time and i know how). Thats why we are here, isnt it? XD

In my opinion, the os to go from... itll be good to use one widely extended, and keep it compatible with its programs; that will make it easyer for users to migrate from one to other, withowt problems of missing favourite programs and so. As for that, the most used desktop distro, for people that dont know ahything or almost anything its Ubuntu (as far as i know).
I dont know PCLOS, but if its as widely used, its a good choice too.

the questions we should keep in mind are:
   -What users want from a new os?
   -What users expect from a furry os?

Some answers i know:
   -What users want from a new os?
        - Quick.
        - Stable
        - Easy to use and learn

   -What users expect from a furry os?
        - Well looking
        - With furry stuff
        - With free and easy to install design programs

But as i guess this is not the place to place sugestions or anything i better stop writing stuff XD
So... when do we start with the FA sync thing?

[Crazd Foxx]

frankly... i think we need to do something unique. not "just another ubuntu clone"  i see no point in making another ubuntu clone. we already tried that. and it didnt work out because nobody saw the point in another ubuntu clone.
were going for a new UI feel this go round
one that will give sleek clean un cluttered hastle free... a similar feel as android but will still hold all the functionality of a standard desktop UI... we gotta bring somethign to the table. nobody cares about seeing the same old thing. and if we dont make something unique we will end up RAIGHT back where we were 4 weeks ago.
and im not letting that happen again if we keep that pattern up were gonna be even more of a joke than we already are.
so. were ditching the standard desktop UI and merging it with a simple all in one solution...one THAT GOES ON A DVD!!! lol   
as far as programs... we will be running in standard debian most likely so anything that runs on debian can run on our system... with just a few mods to the layout of the window...firestorm SL viewer will be something standard we will include in the distro... some one make a note of that.
but if we make ufurmix over again, nobody is gonna care. were doing a COMPLETE REVAMP PEOPLE!!!
it will be a challenge and it will take a while...but we cant be lazy and we are working on getting the people we need to do this.
we are not cloning ore re-theming an existing OS were building a new one using parts of an existing one as foundation.

as far as the FA sych goes... we can start researching... start by reverse engineering the FA database system and finding out how it retrieves data.. like messages ect... and write a program (C++ most likely) that can communicate with said databases and retrieve the same info and make it available on the dashboard without having to be visiting the site.

so far as ive seen by examining the source code FA runs off SQL and does not retrieve data to place on the page. but generates the page from scratch and places raw numbers in where your messages comments ect are on your right top corner unlike older database systems like myspace used to use. where you have a "get" function.. but further examination is needed... i dont know much about SQL

---

Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 01:55:21 -0700
From: fur...@gmail.com
To: ope...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: RE: Introduce yourself Openfur Edition

[WolFi]

I dont meant to make a theme of ubuntu, or domwthing like. I meant to make our system fully, or almost fully compatible with all the ubuntu programs, without the end user having to compile em or something to fit our newly build OS. What does that means?
Well, probably a bit or more of a bit more job and time to get it done but, at the end, well have a system that, dont makes a user lazy to migrate to.
Of cuourse, making new GUI or wathever, but keeping it compatible with ubuntu programs or something;  i dont know right now how to make that, but am sure it isnt as hard as it looks like.

Just as an idea / example / something (just too tired to think clearly):
    - We use some weird new window system; we can keep a second like GNOME and call it just when needed, and close it at app end.
    - We have some weird other thing that is not compatible; we do something like before

As i said, i dont have my mind too operative right now, but there is the idea; plus am not sure how GUI works.


As for the FA sync... i dunno how fa its maded... but they have a database that uses SQL 99% sure. They have an api to access to ir? dunno.
But someone will have to ask FA and find how we should start. We also need to get this thing started at some point... so... How, when, where, what, who, and why? XD

[Сергей Давыдов]

All this UI thing reminds me of Pantheon Shell, they seem to be doing something like that. It's very modular unlike other shells, so it should make a good base.