DebConf11/BanjaLuka/LocalTeam

• DebConf11 Bosnia • Local Team • Accommodation • Banja Luka • Republic of Srpska

Debconf11 Banja Luka Local Team

Our Local Team for the Debconf11 Bid in Banja Luka is as follows (in no particular order):

Adnan Hodzic aka AbsintheSyringe

• DC11 main organizer, Team/bid Leader
• DC10 organizer, DC9 volunteer, video team, DC7 local team member Sarajevo bid (dc7 participant);
• Debian Java team, eclipse-ide, Debian Mozilla Packages, Debian Start!, package maintainer
• Student of IT on AUBIH/SUNY (http://www.aubih.edu.ba/en/spotlight/index.php?id=006)
• Participated/devel in many open source project from Wormux to Wordpress, Joomla etc ...
• Linux users since ~1999, had my own free (community based) web hosting "business", core team BHLD2 ...
• Slackware devel, in process of becoming official Debian devel ... seriously STFW :)

Velimir Iveljic

• Studying at Vienna University of Technology (Computer Engineering)
• DC7 local team member Sarajevo bid, DC10 volunteer
• GNU/Linux (Debian) user and supporter

Vedran Omeragic

• Student of Informatics and Software Engineering at Technical University Vienna
• Linux user (Debian & Ubuntu) and Open Source supporter

Enis Sahinovic

• Chief Editor of leading hardware e-zine, HardwareBase.net
• PR & Marketing Manager
• Event organizer
• Leader of local Folding@home community
• Game, Ladder & Cup Supervisor at ClanBase

Emir Mahmutbegovic

• Student of Information Technology at Technical University Vienna , Austria
• GNU/Linux user/enthusiast from 1998 (Slackware, Debian, Red Hat)
• Cisco Network Engineer
• Security Consultant / Penetration Testing
• C/C++/Java Programming
• One of founders of Linux user group of Bosnia and Herzegovina (linux.org.ba)
• Inet ISP , Tuzla
• DeepSec conference participant , Vienna
• Focus on with experience: Linux clustering (HA clusters), Firewall clusters (cisco , check point), Distributed and redudant networks, VoIP/Asterisk impelentations and consulting, Storage

Adnan Sadzak

• Senior system/network administrator @ Microcredit Foundation MI-BOSPO, Tuzla
• H&H Inc system administrator
• Certified Ethical Hacker
• Penetration tester
• Cisco CCNA
• Allied Telesyn CASE
• Python/Django
• One of founders and former security coordinator of Linux user group of Bosnia and Herzegovina (http://linux.org.ba)
• IFC, "Introduction to ISO 27001:2005 Information Security Management Systems"
• Inet Tuzla, ISP From the Ground Up
• US Army, Eagle Base - Wireless network implementation
• US Army, Coyote Base - Wireless/LAN network implementation
• US Army, Fiala Base - Wireless/LAN network implementation

Srecko Toroman

• member of local team for DebConf7 Sarajevo bid
• initial creator and maintainer of LUG Banja Luka
• free software enthusiast, Debian user for 5+ years
• International informatics competitions participant
• former Serbian translation leader for Wesnoth
• team leader at www.wowd.com

Ivan Jelic

• founder and chairman of the board of the Free Software Network Serbia
• creator of the Serbian Debian GNU/Linux community forum
• founder and former coordinator of the Serbian Ubuntu LoCo team
• Free Software Foundation Europe Team member
• founder and coordinator of Document Freedom Day, global initiative for Open Stadards (http://www.documentfreedom.org/)
• Debian and Ubuntu GNU/Linux system administrator
• Technical director of the Web at B92 (http://www.b92.net/about_us/index.html)
• IT journalist

Bojana Borkovic

• Student of Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Banjaluka (Computer Science and Informational Technology department)
• Using GNU/Linux for 3 years
• One of the initiator of Linux community group in Banja Luka /RS

Vladimir Atanackovic

• Postgraduate student, researching communication theory, BSc in Communications, MA residence in Cultural Studies;
• IT Manager - creator of digital communications infrastructure, code and content for International Medical Centres in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2009-2010;
• Systems Administrator at IBM GSDC CZ, UNIX Division FSSO Team, 2008-2009;
• Associate in outlining and implementation of “Komunikacija/Communication” ( http://www.komunikacija.org.rs ) regional data­base of electronic publications;
• Associate in technology and education at Banjaluka College of Communications, 2003-2005;
• Administrator, translator for BSDSerbia team since 2005,
• FLOSS enthusiast.

Vedran Ljubović

• Current president and one of founders of Linux Users Group of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• BSc in Computer Science, currently employed as TA at Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Sarajevo
• Member of local team for DebConf7 Sarajevo bid
• Localization lead for Bosnian language for: KDE, Mandriva Linux, former l10n lead for OpenOffice.org
• Developer on several opensource projects (EDE, BHLD, Zamger), contributor to many projects

Goran Rakic

• Serbian OpenOffice.org Native-Lang team lead since December 2007
• Team member of Free Software Network Serbia - a NGO dedicated to the free software issues in Serbia and local partner of FSF Europe
• GNOME Foundation member
• Google Summer of Code 2006 student
• free software activists and developer
• student at the Faculty of Mathematics in Belgrade, Serbia

Nikola Kapraljevic

• secretary of Croatian Linux user group
• graduate student Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia
• Debian user
• Ruby on Rails developer
• located in Zagreb/Osijek

Vlatko Kosturjak

• president of Croatian Linux Users Group (CLUG) - Hrvatska udruga Linux Korisnika (HULK)
• Information Security Consultant at IBM ISS
• Author of various security tools
• Contributor to nmap, OpenVAS, nessus, snort, w3af, KDE, ...
• Debian and Ubuntu user
• DORS/CLUC (oldest and biggest traditional linux/open conference in the region)- cochairman, Jednostavno...Linux! cochairman, ...
• Been on LinuxCon, CCC, Defcon, Black Hat, ...

Zlatan Todoric

• Student of Mechanical Engineering in Banja Luka, subsection Mechatonics
• Using GNU/Linux for 3 years (especially Debian and Debian derivate's)
• Debian enthusiast.
• Was providing help in system administration for Internergetik (ABB/Siemens selling company) and PLC programming

Faculty of Electrical Engineering Banja Luka

Members of local team for DebConf11 Banja Luka organization are:

Mihajlo Savic

• Dipl. Eng. Computer Engineering and Automation
• Assistant at University of Banja Luka Faculty of Electrical Engineering
• Grid Infrastructure Manager and Project Steering Board memeber for SEE-GRID, SEE-GRID-2, SEE-GRID-SCI projects for Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Involved in SEEFIRE and SEEREN2 projects (topology, design, specification of academic and research network in BiH)

Aleksej Avramovic

• Dipl. Eng. Electronics and Communications
• Assistant at University of Banja Luka Faculty of Electrical Engineering
• Involved in projects: Archiving and searching bases of radiology images, Lossless image compression and Lossless data compression.
• In charge for videoconferencing at JU Sarnet, Academic and Research Network of Republic of Srpska

Dijana Vukovic

• BScEE in Information Techology
• Teacher's assistant at University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
• Software developer at University of Banja Luka, University Computer Center
• Involved in projects: RFID
• Published several white papers about software security at IT conferences
• Student on master studies at Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Banja Luka, department of Computer Science and Information Technology

The Government of Republic of Srpska

Members of local team for DebConf11 Banja Luka organization are:

Bakir Ajanovic

• Minister of Science and Technology

Dragoljub Davidovic

• Mayor of Banja Luka

Srdjan Rajcevic

• Director of Agency for Information Technology Society in Republika Srpska

Krsto Grujic

• Assistante of general secretary for Information Technology

Gordan Rudez

• General secretary of Goverment of Republika Srpska

Supporting members

Other people that are eager to help, but are not from Balkan:

Eddy Petrisor aka eddyp

• Romanian localization team coordinator, translator
• part of Debian Games Team
• dc7 participant, dc9 some volunteering

Andreas Schuldei aka stockholm

• Debian Developer, DebConf 3, 4, 5 and 6 Orga Team Leader