Hi All, I've recently joined the Fedora Community as a contributer and would like to introduce myself to the list. Professionally, I am a systems analyst with a Houston based consulting company. Primarily I work with HPC compute clusters in the Oil & Gas industry; but our client base truly has a wide variety of endeavors. I've been working (professionally) with various Red Hat systems since about 1998-ish starting with RH4.x (I think it was 4.2; but that was a long time ago). The current environments I work in run a range of FC/CentOS/RHEL on 5000+ servers. I am directly involved in the planning, development, implementation, and maintains of different (proprietary and custom built) monitoring and alerting solutions and also troubleshooting infrastructure services for several organizations. Before my current position, I managed much smaller environments (1-5 Linux servers). Personally, I am a father of three and geek through and through (I have the Star Wars Lego sets to prove it :). My wife tolerates my geekness - sometimes. I've been a Fedora Core user since the first FC release and was a Red Hat user for many years before that. My desktop of choice is Gnome and the most used application on my system is probably gnome-terminal. I think that about covers my 'brief' background. I hope to contribute great work to the project to help Fedora continue to distribute a great distribution for the community! Over the next couple weeks, I'll be looking into the current open bugs to see where I can pitch in to get things done. Thanks a lot! James T. Richardson, Jr. james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx irc: teknofile teknofile@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
