Hello all. I've been lurking in IRC and digging through some of the publicly available Fedora pages for the last couple weeks in attempt to familiarize myself with the group and the environment and thought that it was the right time to introduce myself.
My name is Ethan Hussong and my IRC nick is "Xirrin". I'm in the Chicago suburbs which puts me in the Central timezone in the US. I have recently made a transition over the last few years into IT and have found myself often excited about Linux and Open Source even though I am not a programmer. I would say that my Linux skills are probably around an RHCSA-level (I've been lightly pondering taking the test for the last couple of weeks). Most of my IT experience has come in the form of beginner level network and system administration on top of the help desk jobs that I have worked that have included system performance monitoring and basic remediation. I've attached a resume as well for the sake of helping folks understand my background.
As I mentioned I have some simple network and systems administration experience. I have experience building PCs as well as enterprise servers and have a small test lab of my own at home. I would like to join the Fedora Infrastructure group primarily because of my excitement for the project. I have great respect for Red Hat as far as what it provides to the world and the IT community as a whole (standards, leadership in Linux, a face for Open Source, a great platform to share with both individuals as well as companies, the list goes on...). Fedora plays a significant part in the RHEL ecosystem and because of that, despite my meager credentials, I would very much like to contribute to the cause.
My hope is that going forward I will be able to start small and grow within the community. As my current job is working in a NOC it seems most appropriate to start with system monitoring and trouble remediation tasks. Additionally it seems as though there may be some opportunities to clean up some of the Nagios configuration with tweaking some alert triggers as well as making sure all of the infrastructure is actually monitored (based on what I've seen from conversation the #fedora-noc channel). I would eventually like to help with the Ansible work that is being done and hope that I can eventually help with server deployment, configuration, and decommissioning as my skills expand. Currently I have an interesting work schedule that gives me a couple of hours of free time on one week and a large amount of free time the next. My availability on a specific week is irregular, but ranges between 5 and 25 hours depending on my schedule.
All that being said I am looking for a sponsor/mentor here within the FIG and hope that someone may be willing to step up and guide me to my first steps within the group. Thank you!
Ethan Hussong
My name is Ethan Hussong and my IRC nick is "Xirrin". I'm in the Chicago suburbs which puts me in the Central timezone in the US. I have recently made a transition over the last few years into IT and have found myself often excited about Linux and Open Source even though I am not a programmer. I would say that my Linux skills are probably around an RHCSA-level (I've been lightly pondering taking the test for the last couple of weeks). Most of my IT experience has come in the form of beginner level network and system administration on top of the help desk jobs that I have worked that have included system performance monitoring and basic remediation. I've attached a resume as well for the sake of helping folks understand my background.
As I mentioned I have some simple network and systems administration experience. I have experience building PCs as well as enterprise servers and have a small test lab of my own at home. I would like to join the Fedora Infrastructure group primarily because of my excitement for the project. I have great respect for Red Hat as far as what it provides to the world and the IT community as a whole (standards, leadership in Linux, a face for Open Source, a great platform to share with both individuals as well as companies, the list goes on...). Fedora plays a significant part in the RHEL ecosystem and because of that, despite my meager credentials, I would very much like to contribute to the cause.
My hope is that going forward I will be able to start small and grow within the community. As my current job is working in a NOC it seems most appropriate to start with system monitoring and trouble remediation tasks. Additionally it seems as though there may be some opportunities to clean up some of the Nagios configuration with tweaking some alert triggers as well as making sure all of the infrastructure is actually monitored (based on what I've seen from conversation the #fedora-noc channel). I would eventually like to help with the Ansible work that is being done and hope that I can eventually help with server deployment, configuration, and decommissioning as my skills expand. Currently I have an interesting work schedule that gives me a couple of hours of free time on one week and a large amount of free time the next. My availability on a specific week is irregular, but ranges between 5 and 25 hours depending on my schedule.
All that being said I am looking for a sponsor/mentor here within the FIG and hope that someone may be willing to step up and guide me to my first steps within the group. Thank you!
Ethan Hussong
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