My Name is Neil Horman and I'm interested in getting more involved in the open source community. I've read the self introduction guide on fedora.redhat.com and am please to introduce...me :)
Name: Neil Horman Location: Raleigh, North Carolina Profession: Software Engineer Employer: Red Hat
My Goals For Fedora:
As far as the Fedora project as a whole goes, I'd like to see it move into a role that makes it the best Linux development platform in the world (i.e. the bleeding edge of application and kernel development). I'd like to see it have the most comprehensive package list of any distribution available, with documentation that accurately details the development state and stability of each package.
Personally, I'd like to start using Fedora to build my experience in package development and maintenence. In a former life I developed linux device drivers, and one day I would like to return to that, but before I do, I'd really like to get more involved in the community development process, so that if/when I take on more/other development roles, I have a good understanding of how the development/qa/release process works.
Historical Qualifications:
My previous emplyoment was largely closed source, so I was afforded little opporunity to participate without making people (bosses) nervous. However, in my personal time, I've manged to participate by submitting feature and bug fix patches to several projects, including ddd, ethereal, cscope, and a few (internally at Red Hat) for the kernel. In my last job, I developed device drivers for network switches that ran embedded linux, so I have a strong interest in NIC driver development as well. I've also tried to be active in comp.os.linux.development.* newsgroups. I should have a number of entries in the archives... :)
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I think thats about it. I'll be posting my cscope rpm up here, as soon as I think its up to snuff (shouldn't be too long). Thanks for your time, and I'm looking forward to getting more involved.
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