Striving for greatness

About

Posted by Donnie Berkholz on February 24th, 2008

About me

I’ve been a Gentoo Linux developer since 2003, and I’m working to transform Gentoo into a great distribution. I’m a jack of all trades, and I’ve worked in areas including leading our public relations team, maintaining the X window system, working with our council to decide on global Gentoo issues, managing our desktop efforts, and working with scientific and clustering applications.

I’m also a graduate student in biochemistry and biophysics at Oregon State University, working on my Ph.D. My work focuses on accurately modeling protein structure. I use a number of tools to accomplish that, including X-ray crystallography and homology modeling.

Since my undergraduate days, I’ve taken a strong interest in journalism. I spent 4 years on the college newspaper, and I was awarded a Dow Jones Newspaper Fund internship at The State (Columbia, S.C.) for copy editing. I’m a guest author for LWN.net, the best Linux news site. I remain interested in copy editing and design as well as the future of online journalism.

About this blog

My posts typically relate to topics including building greatness, improving communication, and my work on Gentoo and the X window system.

Contact info

E-mail: donnie.berkholz@gmail.com

Phone: 612-991-1321

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  1. hismindandworldpeace said, on April 6th, 2008 at 7:38 pm

    I can apprciate your interest in journalism :)

    All the best and I did enjoy much of the current post.

  2. hismindandworldpeace said, on April 6th, 2008 at 7:39 pm

    That’s APPRECIATE (spelling) :)

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