About me
Hi,
Let me introduce myself.
My name is Daniel Schmidt – good old friends use to call me Jens Daniel (yes, I have two names) but I prefer Daniel – usually I do not react to the name starting with the J. Nowadays friends call me JD.
I was born in 1980 in a beautiful town called Norden. It is in the north-eastern nook of Germany and right at the waterside of the North Sea.
After elementary school I attended the Ulrichsgymnasium where I got my ‘Abitur’ (A-levels). In Norddeich, a small tourist crowded place just behind the dike, I did a year of alternative civilian service.
In 2000 I moved across Germany from the very north to Franconia (Bavaria) in the south to start my studies of Telecommunication- and Informationtechnology at the University of Applied Sciences in Nürnberg. When I dropped out of it in 2003 I started to work for SUSE Linux (now Novell). After a short internship and an apprenticeship I now work as a software developer in the famous YaST team.
And by the way: I am jdsn – by now it should not be hard to figure out what these letters stand for – well, the ‘n’ currently has more than one meaning.
