[[!meta title="About Nico Schottelius and www.nico.schottelius.org"]]

## About me

Nico Schottelius is the orginator and author of this website.
He's also a [[FOSS developer|about/foss]].

## About www.nico.schottelius.org

There are plenty of websites currently up and running and this site
will sooner or later consolidate all of the following ones:

* [very old personal website (to be merged into this one)](http://nico.schotteli.us/)
* [old personal website (to be merged into this one)](http://nico.schottelius.org/)
* [UNIX related projects](http://unix.schottelius.org/)
* [irc related data/information (to be merged into this site)](http://irc.schottelius.org/)
* [mailing lists](http://l.schottelius.org)
* Search the searchengines:
   * [google](http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Nico+Schottelius%22)
   * [alltheweb](http://www.alltheweb.com/search?q=%22nico+schottelius%22)
   * [yahoo](http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=nico+schottelius)


## My aims and plans

* Create a clean (secure, fast, and comfortable) Linux distribution
* To stimulate the FOSS development, to boost the acceptance of FOSS.
* Create tools that are needed for himself and to make them  available for use in other Unices as well (like cinit, ccollect are available already)
* Group together some people, interested in aiding the success of FOSS
 * Paid people
 * "Normal people" (those, that are just using the computer, not using to hack with it)
 * Try to get different groups to work closer (like *BSD with the Linux community)
    * I want to study computer science again
  * Learn more, to create better software
  * this time without the focus on economy


## Press

The following is an incomplete list of news and articles about my projects and those I wrote:

* February 2005: [Linux-Magazin about monotone and gnu arch (tla)](http://www.linux-magazin.de/Artikel/ausgabe/2005/02)
* 26\. August 2004: [OpenNET (russia)](http://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=4285)
  about the [[!unixso blacksheep]] project
* 9\. July 2004: [Pro-Linux](http://www.pro-linux.de/news/2004/7019.html)
  about the [LinuxDistributionen Wiki](https://wiki.schottelius.org/usemod/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LinuxDistributionen)
* 14\. April 2004: [The Linux Documentation Project](http://www.tldp.org/ldpwn/20040414.html)
  about the document explaining
  [why cryptoloops offer only partial security](http://nico.schotteli.us/papers/linux/cryptoloop-partial-security)
* 22\. August 2003: [Newsforge](http://newsvac.newsforge.com/newsvac/03/08/22/134259.shtml)
  about the [[!unixso blacksheep]] project
* 31\. July 2003: [Pro-Linux](http://www.pro-linux.de/news/2003/5794.html)
  about the [[!unixso blacksheep]] project


Please notify me, if you find an article not listed here.


## Contact

You can contact me via E-Mail at
***nico-webcontact*** (at the following domain) ***schottelius.org***.
I recommened using PGP to encrypt any mail.
The fingerprint of my [[pgp-key|pgp-key-9217A3DF.txt]] is

    BFE4 C736 ABE5 406F 8F42  F7CF B8BE F92A 9885 188C

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