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Gene Hawkins

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I grew up a dirt poor dairy farmers son and needless to say, since the school district I went to could not afford even one computer for the hundreds of students there, so I did not get one as a kid. After graduating High School I joined the Military and got exposed to my very first computer and just took off running with it as everything came so easy to me on them. I am 100% self taught. I have been working on the hardware side of the business for 30 years now. I Started off as a Desktop IT Guy and made my way up the ranks until I got into the networking and server side. I have been designing and implementing networks from the RJ-45 jack in the wall to the Servers, routers and pretty much every ounce of technology required involved with that for the last 15 years. I am a disabled Veteran and the older I get, the worse the pain gets. Some days I can barely walk and I am not 50 yet. I started off doing some small time scripting several years back and have been doing more and more of that in the more recent years. It is much easier for me to write code than crawling in attics pulling wire. That is one of the reasons I am trying to get sponsored so I can still make a living because it is not long from now I will not be able to do physical labor anymore.

I have been active on Github for several years now and while I work mostly on Roundcube related code which involves a lot of areas from the simple javascript to complicated encryption methods but I spend a decent amount of time working on Nextcloud code as well. I am ambitious so I plan on being a lot better in the next few years and broaden my horizons even more.
I donate quite a bit of my time testing software that I use on a regular basis during their dev periods to help out as best as I can.
I speak English obviously and help translate but I know enough Spanish to help translate that Language as well.

I look forward to our future endeavors. Until then ... ✌️

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I would love to get 500 sponsors to donate $5 a month and this old disabled vet can make a better living. I would also get to spend that much more time developing plugins, apps, themes, skins etc to give out to the world. The sky is the limit.

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Featured work

  1. texxasrulez/roundcube_skins

    Modified Larry Skins to have more colors to choose from

    CSS 10
  2. texxasrulez/account_details

    Account Details plugin for Roundcube

    PHP 10
  3. texxasrulez/simple_secure_contact_form

    A Simple, hopefully secure, PHP Contact Form mailer with Captcha and Formatting

    PHP 1
  4. PHP 9
  5. PHP 2
  6. CSS 15

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I am simply asking for $5 a month donation if you use & like my work & of course can afford $5 bux a month ...
I will provide one of the following for your generous donation:

  1. I will make a custom Grub2 Theme for you if you are like me & run multiple OS's & hate that bland stock theme. Providing images is best, but just let me know what you are thinking & I will make it happen.
  2. I will brand your Windows 10 Computer for you: Custom Boot Splash Screen with OEM Info as well as Custom Windows Logo. Provide images or your ideas & I will make it yours!

I thank you all & hope all has a great day

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I am asking for $10 a month donation if you use & like my work ...
I will provide all of the following for your generous donation:

  1. I will make a custom Grub2 Theme for you if you are like me & run multiple OS's & hate that bland stock theme. Providing images is best, but just let me know what you are thinking & I will make it happen.
  2. I will brand your Windows 10 Computer for you: Custom Boot Splash Screen with OEM Info as well as Custom Windows Logo. Provide images or your ideas & I will make it yours!

I thank you all & hope all has a great day

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For $20.00/month, I will install any or all of my plugins and skins for Roundcube and Nextcloud on your personal, non-commercial server and keep the plugins up to date as releases come out. Be the first to have those new features or skins. I will keep RC and NC up to date as well. Support for other developers work can be discussed. I have tried most of them at least once in the past so I am familiar with many that are available.

I wish Peace & Prosperity to all ... :-)

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For $100.00/month, I will install, setup & maintain Roundcube & Nextcloud on your internal business server as well as all the plugins necessary to provide an outstanding webmail client to keep you and your associates digital life in sync. I will add 10 (so far) additional skins providing more variety for your users to choose from. Provide me with your logo & I will brand Roundcube and Nextcloud & make it yours.

Have a great day

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For $500.00/month I will setup, manage (Server Admin) & maintain a LAMP Server for small business internal use.
System includes Debian Server with Control Panel for easy management of domains, emails, databases, etc.
Apache , MySQL , PHP (Multiple versions supported), Private IM Network, Private Cloud storage & Roundcube w/ multiple skins (13 so far) & lots of plugins (Caldav/Carddav to name just a few important ones) to provide a high quality, groupware/webmail experience. Provide me with your logo & I will brand all I can as well.

Enjoy your Day