On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, Chris Johnson wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been lurking on the mailing list for a while and I finally > registered for my fedora account today (username: chrisj) > I'm interested in helping out as time permits. I got on irc once > (lurking again) and haven't really logged in since. I'll try to make a > few meetings after the holidays > I'm planning to get my personal test systems setup soon. I just moved > and still getting things straight at home. Bought a 750GB drive last > night and will be installing F10 over the weekend. I had been running > the U... distro and it's time to get back to the fedora/RH rpm way of > doing things :-) > > I've used RedHat since before Fedora existed (I think 6 was the first > one). Started as a hobbyist, 2 years. Then got a job as an admin and > have been doing Linux admin and Cisco networks for the last 5 years. > My current employer is a Win shop so I just get to run the DNS, > email, and network, but the network is 50 remote offices and 3 > different data centers in the midwest. I don't mind the Windows too > much and can find my way around them, it's also kinda fun to get the > Linux and MS products to play nice together. I've worked with a lot of > different linux and OSS software products including: postfix, > openldap, apache, bind, samba, mailman, pam, built some custom rpm's, > etc. I use RHEL mostly at work and some fedora and Cent for testing > (some suse, deb, and slackware in the past). I used to do lots of > security firewall apliances with various linux distros (I was a big > fan of LRP when it would fit on a floppy), most of this is now done > with Cisco in my world. I can shell script pretty well and I've > written several perl scripts in the last few years (dabbled in php but > not enough to know it well). I've always been interested in python but > don't have much if any exp with it. I also don't have much experience > with SQL/DB or source control. > > I was looking at the FIGs and would be interested in the base sysadmin > and sysadmin-noc for now while I figure out where everything is and > what it does. I'm also interested in more info on the sysadmin-tools > and sysadmin-web FIG. > So, next just apply for the FIGs, keep lurking, ask some questions, > show up for IRC meetings? > Exactly, sorry this took so long to get back to you, busy week. Also it would be good to stop by #fedora-admin on irc.freenode.net so we can make sure you get into the sysadmin group properly. -Mike _______________________________________________ Fedora-infrastructure-list mailing list Fedora-infrastructure-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-infrastructure-list
