Hello, My name is Cody Frazer and I'm interested in helping with the Fedora Project. I'm most interested in doing system administration and the like. I live near St. Louis, Missouri (CST). I have one year of college towards a B.S. in Computational Physics and Computer Science where I worked in C++, Visual Basic, PHP, MySQL and Perl. This past year, I've worked as a full-time web developer at Concordia Publishing House, where I work mostly in Ruby on Rails. We have a small team so we have to manage our servers and do our own database, systems, and network administration. I'm an avid Vim user and I enjoy streamlining my configuration for maximum productivity. I really enjoy writing scripts in bash and ruby do normal filesystem activities (doing advanced/specific large-scale file movement/finding/changing). I also have a sort of file system OCD. I'm very particular about what gets added to my system. I love making sure that every tool and development method I use is keeping my system in pristine condition. I love making sure that changes are modular, unobtrusive, and easily controllable/removable. My favorite language for sys. admin. is ruby. I'm willing and excited to learn anything necessary. One of my favorite things is learning new things and improving my toolkit. Here's a list of skills that I possess: C: familiar/basic C++: basic Perl: basic Python: basic Lisp: basic Visual Basic: basic Ruby: intermediate Rails: intermediate Fedora: basic-intermediate Bash: intermediate Apache: basic Java: basic Linux: basic-intermediate MySQL: basic-intermediate TCL: familiar Tk: familiar-basic PHP: basic I want to join Fedora Project for a few reasons: 1) it's a large project and it seems like there's enough to do that I can do a lot of what I enjoy (sys. admin.) 2) I'm very appreciative of Fedora and Open Source software, in general. It's given me soo much, so I'd like to use my skills to give back. I couldn't imagine being a developer/scientist without Open Source and Linux. 3) Fedora was my first and remains one of my favorite Linux distributions. I use it and am invested in helping to improve/support it. I really would like to do anything involving system administration. I love scripting and automating things for developers to make development streamlined. I'm also very passionate about having the best tools available. I'm constantly critically analyzing every tool I use. I think I'd like to do this on the operating system level - make sure it's running smooth, not full of junk, and provides the best environment for development, deployment, or whatever else it is made to do. Currently, I'm working two jobs for 7 days a week and 60-70 hours. I'm pretty busy, but I've got great time management skills. I like maximizing my time so that I'm always learning or working. I can easily reserve Saturday mornings for work and probably a few hours for a couple evenings during the week. I can guarantee 4 hours on Saturday at the least. At most, I can guarantee that and 2 hours Monday - Thursday, and 4 on Friday. So 4 hrs./wk. minimum and 16 hrs./wk. maximum. I'm thinking that the average I'll be able/expecting to spend is 10 hrs./wk. Hope this wasn't too much information or useless babble! :) Thanks, Cody _______________________________________________ infrastructure mailing list infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure
