Now that the official announcement is out, I can share with all of you that I've been selected European RHCE of the Year!

Being a Red Hat Certified Engineer, you get an email reminding you to register for the contest of RHCE of the Year; allow me to quote from that message:

"There are any number of accomplishments that could catapult you to this great distinction--maybe you're administering an impossible number of boxes, maybe you solve an insurmountable problem, or maybe your business card just looks cool with an RHCE logo on it. No matter what the reason, we want to hear about it."

So I thought "I'm upstream, let's sign up and give them my fedoraproject.org wiki page". A few weeks later, I get a phonecall. You know the rest.

I first started playing with Linux back in 1998 - I was barely 15 years old. Of course that was all play, and no work. Ever since I've been hooked, and ended up making a living doing what used to be my hobby - and it still wasn't enough. Hence I finally joined the great Fedora community (I think it was in 2005 or 2006?), and immediately had enough to sink my teeth in -and I still have. Now, compared to when I started, it's completely vice-versa; all work and no play... I just can't tell the difference anymore ;-))

Thank you Red Hat, for rewarding me this great honour, and thanks to the many great people in the community that make my hobby/work so enjoyable! I'll see some of you at the Red Hat Summit / FUDCon next week in Boston. We'll have a beer, or two, or more, to celebrate ;-)