Welcome Kara! On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 15:11 -0500, kara@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Full legal name: Kara J. Pritchard > City, Country: Fairview Heights, IL USA (suburb of St Louis) > Profession: Own a computer consulting, service, and retail shop. > Company: K&S Pritchard Enterprises, Inc. (www.kspei.com) > > Goals: My goals are simple... to contribute. Since moving on from LPI and > not having the extended time for publishing projects anymore, the itch to > contribute somewhere has been strong. My husband is a maintainer for a > few Extras packages and suggested I take a look at this project. I must > admit that my available free time is erratic, however. Welcome to the club, then. Personally, I only appear to have free time. For example, it has taken me thirty minutes to write this far. ;-) Your background and interests sound perfect. Do you have any topics you want to start with? Or anything half-finished that you'd like to use the energy during the upcoming Push to Publish Week to get live? In case you haven't seen it, this is a useful starting page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/NewWriters Whoops, that took another twenty minutes to write. Off to the weekend projects. :) - Karsten > What do you want to write about? > KJP: I'm best with instructional documentation such as HOWTOs, > Step-By-Step, or Training guides. Therefore, I think topics geared toward > the user audience would be the most interesting. > > Do you want to edit for grammar/writing and/or technical accuracy? > KJP: I've done technical editing for several book and magazine publishers. > I'm quite opinionated when it comes to the clarity and feel a reader gets > from a writing sample. I'm very good at giving that opinion, so don't ask > me to do it if you don't want any complaints :) > > What other projects or writing have you worked on in the past? > KJP: I authored two editions of the RHCE Exam Cram in '99 and '00. I > contributed to a guide to DocBook, been a project reviewer for New > Riders, an editor for O'Reilly, IDG, and Linux User/Format/Magazine. I > was also responsible for all the content development for the LPI exams > from Dec '99 through this spring. > > What level and type of computer skills do you have? > KJP: I'm becoming quite the hardware geek. I build a lot of Linux-based > workstations and high-end servers. I do more admin work when it comes to > Linux than consulting, installation, etc. I'm not a programmer, though > have been known to read through a perl or shell script on occasion. > > What other skills do you have that might be applicable? > KJP: Good people skills, project management background > > What makes you an excellent match for the project? > KJP: Long history in the Linux community, prior Linux-related technical > content development, editing, and management experience. Very > short-winded. > > GPG KEYID and fingerprint > > [kara@frell gpgfiles]$ gpg --fingerprint 6DEC5002 > pub 1024D/6DEC5002 2002-01-22 Kara Pritchard <kara@xxxxxxxxx> > Key fingerprint = 42AC 471F 6E98 8134 C39E 81F4 9F2E 1DEE 6DEC 5002 > uid Kara Pritchard <kara@xxxxxxxx> > uid Kara Pritchard <kara@xxxxxxx> > sub 1024g/27194020 2002-01-22 > > > Kara Pritchard Phone: 618-398-3000 > President, KS Computer Room Inc. kara@xxxxxxxxx > Southern Illinois Linux Users Group www.silug.org > -- > > -- Karsten Wade, RHCE * Sr. Tech Writer * http://people.redhat.com/kwade/ gpg fingerprint: 2680 DBFD D968 3141 0115 5F1B D992 0E06 AD0E 0C41 Red Hat SELinux Guide http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/selinux-guide/
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