
Greeting's to you all, it would be nice if all of you could introduce yourself. In the group it would be useful to know each other especially the IT related skills and expertise. I'm Christian Buhtz from Germany in my late 30s. My primary repos are at Codeberg [1] where my handle is "buhtz". I only use GitHub (handle is "Codeberg-AsGithubAlternative-buhtz") because I'm forced to. I am using BIT since 2015. I will open new threads for more thoughts and ideas about BiT. About my background, skills and expertise in IT: I haven't studied computer science or informatics at university. I learned something called "Fachinformatiker" which is a 3-years school vocational training to be something like a software developer. I worked in that sector for one year only working on individual software using C++. After then I became a nurse and after that a nursing scientist currently working on my PhD. - Today using Python for data science in my current employment as a researcher - Also used Python for an unknown amount of years for private projects - Always tried to develop my Python skills including "professional" topics like unit testing, clean code, CI, etc - Touched C, C++, Java, RDBMS, ODBMS in the past - Always interested in the topic of maintaining FOSS projects but never did this myself. Just a selection of my own (one-man) projects [1]: - "Hyperorg" is a small tool converting org-files into simple HTML files can be used without a web-server. "Org" (and "OrgRoam") is a part of Emacs and could be (incomplete) described as a mixture from note taking, personal wiki and Zettelkasten (and everything else you need to "take over the world"). - "buhtzology" is my toolbox for code I reuse and prevent myself from copy and paste my own code from project to project. Most of it has data science background. - "Feedybus" is a RSS/Atom Feedreader (aka Newsreader) and very important to me. But the original (very old) repo is private because the code currently doesn't reached my quality criteria. Current status is "unusable" (even for me) because of heavy refactoring. Looking forward for working with you. Thanks for reading. Christian Buhtz [1] -- <https://codeberg.org/buhtz/hyperorg>

Thanks, Christian, I'll have a go: I'm Michael from Germany in my mid-30s. I'm not a programmer or any sort of "IT person" by profession (rather, I'm a physicist by training and these days work as a science journalist and writer), but I've been a Linux (lately, also FreeBSD) power user and Python hobbyist for nearly two decades now. I have been using backintime since ~2015 as well, and have grown very attached to it. I haven't found a single other backup software that will: 1) store hardlinked-incremental backups in a plain folder structure, and 2) expose them through a convenient UI, while 3) working with standard Linux tooling like rsync, crontabs and shell scripts. My most presentable piece of Python is a tool to manipulate Sim City 2000 savegames: https://github.com/emtiu/sc2000tool – not exactly the level of expertise required to maintain backintime, but I'm happy to help with issue maintenance, testing, communications and infrastructure as far as my time allows. Cheers! :) Michael On 07.06.2022 17:16, c.buhtz@posteo.jp wrote:

Dear Christian, Michael and all, Let me try to introduce myself. I'm Hakan Bayindir, from Turkey in my late-ish 30s as well. I have a Ph.D. in software engineering and M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Computer Science. I work as a system administrator and developer in an high performance computing center, and also develop high performance scientific code and write papers as a side academic gig. I'm using Back in Time for a very long time (I don't remember the date I discovered it), and it became a staple of my infrastructure (both home and office) for a very long time. I mostly forget its existence, and it's a very good thing in my book, because it just works. I know and can develop in C/C++, Python, bash, Java, PHP. Also, I'm kinda knowledgeable about Linux internals and distribution dynamics since I was a tech lead on a Debian based distribution for some time. Unfortunately, my biggest project has to stay private for a little longer, but there are some small repos which I can share. - magazine_renamer is a tool to automatically rename IEEE magazines with human readable names: https://github.com/hbayindir/magazine-renamer - vagrant_machines is a collection of vagrant definition files which allows me to create environments to work on stuff: https://github.com/hbayindir/vagrant-machines - railgun is a small tool to send e-mails via Mailgun via command line: https://github.com/hbayindir/railgun - lssrv is a tool to see queues' state in a slurm powered cluster: https:// github.com/TRUBA-HPC/lssrv Lastly, I also have a blog at https://blog.bayindirh.io. Looking forward to collaborate with you, Cheers, Hakan On 7 Haziran 2022 Salı 21:53:28 +03 Michael Büker wrote:

Dear Christian, Michael and all, Let me try to introduce myself. I'm Hakan Bayindir, from Turkey in my late-ish 30s as well. I have a Ph.D. in software engineering and M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Computer Science. I work as a system administrator and developer in an high performance computing center, and also develop high performance scientific code and write papers as a side academic gig. I'm using Back in Time for a very long time (I don't remember the date I discovered it), and it became a staple of my infrastructure (both home and office) for a very long time. I mostly forget its existence, and it's a very good thing in my book, because it just works. I know and can develop in C/C++, Python, bash, Java, PHP. Also, I'm kinda knowledgeable about Linux internals and distribution dynamics since I was a tech lead on a Debian based distribution for some time. Unfortunately, my biggest project has to stay private for a little longer, but there are some small repos which I can share. - magazine_renamer is a tool to automatically rename IEEE magazines with human readable names: https://github.com/hbayindir/magazine-renamer - vagrant_machines is a collection of vagrant definition files which allows me to create environments to work on stuff: https://github.com/hbayindir/vagrant-machines - railgun is a small tool to send e-mails via Mailgun via command line: https://github.com/hbayindir/railgun - lssrv is a tool to see queues' state in a slurm powered cluster: https:// github.com/TRUBA-HPC/lssrv Lastly, I also have a blog at https://blog.bayindirh.io. Looking forward to collaborate with you, Cheers, Hakan On 7 Haziran 2022 Salı 21:53:28 +03 Michael Büker wrote:

Hi all I am George from Switzerland. I am also leaving my 30's very soon :) I am using BiT since 2011 to backup my /home and /etc. Several times already it helped me to restore lost/corrupted/overwritten data. Using the callbacks I also export the DPKG list of installed packages. This helps a lot on setting up a new system (clean install) and quickly restoring most of the applications. I love most on BiT that the backups are also accessible without the need of BiT, just in case :) I am an embedded software developer, mainly writing ANSI C. In the last decade I more and more moved to Python for coding test systems and tools. Also at my work I am responsible for Software Architecture and CI/CD (mainly using Docker and Gitlab). Beside of this I have experience in other programming/scripting languages like Bash, PHP, MYSQL, Javascript, ... In my private time I maintain some medium networks and servers. Some of my projects/work are located in https://github.com/caco3?tab=repositories Greetings George (aka CaCO3)

Hi, I am Alex from Germany, also (still) in my 30's ;) I am a professional software developer, working mostly with Java, but I also have some limited Python experience. I have been using BiT since 2012 and hope the project will continue. I would be willing to invest some (limited) time to help with the development. Regards, Alex

Thanks, Christian, I'll have a go: I'm Michael from Germany in my mid-30s. I'm not a programmer or any sort of "IT person" by profession (rather, I'm a physicist by training and these days work as a science journalist and writer), but I've been a Linux (lately, also FreeBSD) power user and Python hobbyist for nearly two decades now. I have been using backintime since ~2015 as well, and have grown very attached to it. I haven't found a single other backup software that will: 1) store hardlinked-incremental backups in a plain folder structure, and 2) expose them through a convenient UI, while 3) working with standard Linux tooling like rsync, crontabs and shell scripts. My most presentable piece of Python is a tool to manipulate Sim City 2000 savegames: https://github.com/emtiu/sc2000tool – not exactly the level of expertise required to maintain backintime, but I'm happy to help with issue maintenance, testing, communications and infrastructure as far as my time allows. Cheers! :) Michael On 07.06.2022 17:16, c.buhtz@posteo.jp wrote:

Dear Christian, Michael and all, Let me try to introduce myself. I'm Hakan Bayindir, from Turkey in my late-ish 30s as well. I have a Ph.D. in software engineering and M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Computer Science. I work as a system administrator and developer in an high performance computing center, and also develop high performance scientific code and write papers as a side academic gig. I'm using Back in Time for a very long time (I don't remember the date I discovered it), and it became a staple of my infrastructure (both home and office) for a very long time. I mostly forget its existence, and it's a very good thing in my book, because it just works. I know and can develop in C/C++, Python, bash, Java, PHP. Also, I'm kinda knowledgeable about Linux internals and distribution dynamics since I was a tech lead on a Debian based distribution for some time. Unfortunately, my biggest project has to stay private for a little longer, but there are some small repos which I can share. - magazine_renamer is a tool to automatically rename IEEE magazines with human readable names: https://github.com/hbayindir/magazine-renamer - vagrant_machines is a collection of vagrant definition files which allows me to create environments to work on stuff: https://github.com/hbayindir/vagrant-machines - railgun is a small tool to send e-mails via Mailgun via command line: https://github.com/hbayindir/railgun - lssrv is a tool to see queues' state in a slurm powered cluster: https:// github.com/TRUBA-HPC/lssrv Lastly, I also have a blog at https://blog.bayindirh.io. Looking forward to collaborate with you, Cheers, Hakan On 7 Haziran 2022 Salı 21:53:28 +03 Michael Büker wrote:

Dear Christian, Michael and all, Let me try to introduce myself. I'm Hakan Bayindir, from Turkey in my late-ish 30s as well. I have a Ph.D. in software engineering and M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Computer Science. I work as a system administrator and developer in an high performance computing center, and also develop high performance scientific code and write papers as a side academic gig. I'm using Back in Time for a very long time (I don't remember the date I discovered it), and it became a staple of my infrastructure (both home and office) for a very long time. I mostly forget its existence, and it's a very good thing in my book, because it just works. I know and can develop in C/C++, Python, bash, Java, PHP. Also, I'm kinda knowledgeable about Linux internals and distribution dynamics since I was a tech lead on a Debian based distribution for some time. Unfortunately, my biggest project has to stay private for a little longer, but there are some small repos which I can share. - magazine_renamer is a tool to automatically rename IEEE magazines with human readable names: https://github.com/hbayindir/magazine-renamer - vagrant_machines is a collection of vagrant definition files which allows me to create environments to work on stuff: https://github.com/hbayindir/vagrant-machines - railgun is a small tool to send e-mails via Mailgun via command line: https://github.com/hbayindir/railgun - lssrv is a tool to see queues' state in a slurm powered cluster: https:// github.com/TRUBA-HPC/lssrv Lastly, I also have a blog at https://blog.bayindirh.io. Looking forward to collaborate with you, Cheers, Hakan On 7 Haziran 2022 Salı 21:53:28 +03 Michael Büker wrote:

Hi all I am George from Switzerland. I am also leaving my 30's very soon :) I am using BiT since 2011 to backup my /home and /etc. Several times already it helped me to restore lost/corrupted/overwritten data. Using the callbacks I also export the DPKG list of installed packages. This helps a lot on setting up a new system (clean install) and quickly restoring most of the applications. I love most on BiT that the backups are also accessible without the need of BiT, just in case :) I am an embedded software developer, mainly writing ANSI C. In the last decade I more and more moved to Python for coding test systems and tools. Also at my work I am responsible for Software Architecture and CI/CD (mainly using Docker and Gitlab). Beside of this I have experience in other programming/scripting languages like Bash, PHP, MYSQL, Javascript, ... In my private time I maintain some medium networks and servers. Some of my projects/work are located in https://github.com/caco3?tab=repositories Greetings George (aka CaCO3)

Hi, I am Alex from Germany, also (still) in my 30's ;) I am a professional software developer, working mostly with Java, but I also have some limited Python experience. I have been using BiT since 2012 and hope the project will continue. I would be willing to invest some (limited) time to help with the development. Regards, Alex
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alex4983@gmx.de
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c.buhtz@posteo.jp
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CaCO3
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Hakan Bayındır
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Michael Büker