Following the format of the Fedora Documentation Project self-intro at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/SelfIntroduction 1. Full legal name Peter Boy * City, Country; Bremen, Germany * Profession or Student status senior scientist, research fellow (social science research methods and statistical computing) managing director of the research institut IT infrastructure * Company or School University of Bremen, Germany * Your goals in the Fedora Project * What do you want to write about? - planning guides, integration of heterogeneous systems; - Administration / tutorials about Samba, LDAP, databases (esp. Postgres, MySQL, UDB), Apache, Tomcat, Sendmail, Postfix; - Installing / using Java; * What other documentation do you want to see published? Nothing specifically. Would like to see a comprehensive and well structured Fedora documentation in order to help it to usable for a large community. * Do you want to edit for grammar/writing and/or technical accuracy? I'm not a native English speaker, but could comment on overall structure and technical accuracy of a document. * Anything else special? - Can do translation (to German) - As a scientist I have some experience in planning and writing technically oriented articles and books, which might be helpful here sometimes * Historical qualifications * What other projects or writing have you worked on in the past? - Wrote several articles about installing, maintaining and using linux systems and programs (non-linux, too) - Contributed to IBM Redbook (ITSO, Austin) (was about OS/2) - teaching students (using linux for different scientific reseach tasks) - maintained some rpms for Linux based Sun systems * What level and type of computer skills do you have? Experienced administrator and application program developer (mainly database related applications, client/server applications and web services) - being in business with various computer systems since 1970 - knowledge about AIX, OS/2, various linux distributions - programming skills in various languages, esp. C/C++, Java - Web site development (design, HTML/csss/php/Java, etc). * What other skills do you have that might be applicable? User interface design, other so-called soft skills (people skills), programming, etc. - Organisation of team work - overall planing and development of conceptions for publications about specific topics * What makes you an excellent match for the project? I do a lot of writing on my job about Linux and generell IT topics which might be useful for FDP, too (hopefully) * GPG KEYID and fingerprint pub 1024D/59786EEA 2005-08-20 Peter Boy (Fedora Docs Project) <pboy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> sub 1024g/C695D937 2005-08-20 [verfällt: 2010-08-19] -- fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list
