Following the format of the Fedora Project self-intro (http://www.fedora.us/wiki/SelfIntroduction) and the example of Mike MacCana. The wordiness is all my fault: 1. Full legal name - Karsten Wade 2. Country, City - USA, Santa Cruz (.ca.us) 3. Profession - Technical Writer 4. Company - Red Hat, Inc. 5. My goals in the Fedora docs project are: * Support the team in whatever way I can, including technical, QA, editorial, wordsmithee, professional, community, etc. * Provide useful documentation for Fedora Core users, administrators, and developers, starting with the form of tutorials and HOWTOs. * Personally author and maintain one to several tutorials or HOWTOs (no big ideas yet, although I am about to do an x2x implementation, so will likely start with that). * Assist with the dox toolchain, build environment, and contributor guidelines. 6. My historical qualifications: Work at Red Hat: * Author, edit, and/or maintain guides for developers (Java API), system administrators, application admins, and end-users for Red Hat Applications WAF and CMS (nÃe ArsDigita Community System aka ACS). http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/rhea/ and http://rhea.redhat.com/. These guides are a collaborative effort with the developers. Because I am not a programmer, the developer guide required a close relationship with the programmers, who assist by authoring some content directly into the DocBook SGML. My tasks have included massive editing of others' work, reworking of old materials, technical QA, testing, generation of new content, modernization and standardization of SGML, and extensive usage of the many OO tags in DocBook. * Focusing on SELinux implementation and documentation; nothing produced yet. * Professional services (PS) team as a systems consultant and project writer, doing assessments, implementations, the bulk of the major project writing tasks for 50+ PS consultants, setting standards, and working with lots of customers. Work at VA Linux Systems: * Same as PS work at Red Hat. Also worked on community oriented projects such as a presentation explaining the benefits of the open source development methodology. Other qualifications/skills: * As a lifelong writer, I've studied journalism, creative writing, and literature. * Experienced in many aspects of IT, from end-user through to business decision makers. RHCE (RHL 8.0), system administration generalist, and former Windows sysadmin. No computer languages known. Lots of work with DocBook SGML, some with XML, DSSSL, XSL, and CSS. 7. GPG KEYID and fingerprint This is my personal gpg key: pub 1024D/AD0E0C41 2003-11-26 Karsten G. Wade (quaid|phig) <karsten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Key fingerprint = 2680 DBFD D968 3141 0115 5F1B D992 0E06 AD0E 0C41 sub 1024g/C07806E8 2003-11-26 -- Karsten Wade .:. RHCE .:. Sr. Technical Writer .:. <name_title /> kwade at redhat.com www.redhat.com/docs <email_URL /> rhea.redhat.com <product id="WAF_CMS" /> www.redhat.com/solutions/security/SELinux.html <product id="SELinux" /> 2680 DBFD D968 3141 0115 5F1B D992 0E06 AD0E 0C41 <gpg_fingerprint />
