Speaker - Simon Lees

Simon has been a Linux user for 16 years and a contributor to the openSUSE Project for 8+ years, he now serves on the project’s board as well as in a number of other roles. As his day job Simon has spent the last 3 years working for SUSE in a packaging / maintenance role, prior to that he worked as a software engineer for a company designing and building communications equipment. Simon originally studied Software Engineering at the University of Adelaide. In his spare time Simon enjoys designing new themes for Linux desktops, messing around with robots and other electronics, maintaining various packages in openSUSE as well as playing bass guitar and riding bikes.