EDIT: Sorry, I just read the Fedora requirements for this introduction email, so I'm resending my previous one with corrections. Please disregard my previous email, and sorry for the inconvenience. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi everyone, My name is Zachary Hamed, Zach for short, and I live in the New York City area, USA. I'm a sophomore (grade 10) high school student at Collegiate School, and I got interested in Linux in general about a year ago. I tried OpenSUSE and found the installation to be a huge pain, so I switched to Fedora and have been using it ever since (dual-booting with Vista (1) because of school work and (2) because I can't get my Broadcom WiFi card to work with Fedora 8...grr...). I also just finished reading two books about Linux and the Open Source movement (Rebel Code: Inside Linux and the Open Source Revolution, by Glyn Moody, and Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary, by Linus Tovalds and David Diamond, both of which I highly recommend). I have a bit of programming experience. I can program pretty well in BASIC, and my dad is a computer programmer for a living. I'm also in the process of learning Ruby (and Rails for that matter). I've written a book on computers (www.joiningthedigitalworld.com) that I edited completely by myself, and of which I've sold about 200-250 copies (available on Amazon, BarnesAndNoble.com, and other retailers online). I'm now working on a project called Ease of Tech (www.easeoftech.com), which is kind of an Adobe AIR type overlay system to an OS...can't really get into it in detail here. In terms of what I would like to do for the Fedora Project, I can't really contribute much to the coding side, but I would love to help out in any way I can (I know it'll look good on the college applications; hoping to go to MIT!). Additionally, I am a very good English student (not my favorite subject, but I do well), so I would like to edit as many documents as I can, and I can even write some docs on newbie things (as I am one anyway). One thing I think is lacking for the documentation project is some kind of complete guide for complete newcomers to Linux. Ubuntu has been attracting a lot more users because of this, and I think Fedora could be a real alternative to Mac and Windows for older people if they had a comprehensive guide to just about everything up until the post-install period—it's also something I wouldn't mind working on. I think I'm a good match for the project because I'm a hard worker, am good in English (and getting better with programming), and really want to contribute to the community. I looked over the Style Guide and the associated rules, most to all of which I am familiar with (my school has a grammar proficiency test every year which I always pass, thought it's pass/fail so I can't share any grades with you). Again, it would be great for me to be another step in the editing process, or to even make a guide of my own. Can anyone tell me where I go from here? What you guys are doing so far? I should get the gist of it once I get daily mailing list digests, but just in case... Thanks, Zach P.S. This email is in no way representative of my "formal writing" writing style; I had to rant and use parentheses a bit more than I usually do. P.P.S. I'm still new to the idea of signing emails with this key. I submitted the key (or what I think was a key) to pgp.mit.edu, but is the stuff below in the correct format? I saw what format it *should* be in on the Fedora intro-email page, but I don't want to screw up and send out my private key, because apparently that would be really bad. All I did below was paste the text copied when I right-clicked on my key and selected "Copy Public Key" (this is in "Passwords and Encrypted Keys"). -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) mQGiBEfoiZ4RBADF/B8jv2irteaWjEB1+C7SXHCJmWIAI9+duvrKpIdj+UiV6aZi OijfMtMm/PEosHbhA47F8vNQAOYhcSBeasc2omvntrguHicBnP3WWKpFgU7jvJ8D Qch6nCDrjV/gpoyhdEUSp+3P7+DS31qHKb8ti44UQNzsGeb6Yi5Ucw2p/wCggu4H Ro27QPG+BxVJM3r7N5BFcisEAJPIsTJBxz5GmH5cgWJDmELJtgx78Ozq755SgdJt NqdL1vXUkOnwkvXytQ3TUehuq0Yi2aiM6YwN1D/kceWNdL7uyB0DhhAuU4UTf9i5 GPqSNpYCtajSVZueEp0x9Zo2eYS3qRocsg/Nxp8u1bXG1r7QKowbHth6bd97inKR 6QYSA/48glKFr41nEju2Y9QqYyy6BNmyPn1rkpfYmovRCKS6u1RgkfUNmdStflIa nmA5j49i/eknDt7g0HRQuOue9xJlgmf66W2AEP/+93UFp81Hc9o16Sz/wtODx8Kf Ld62RzC/fAFKv8lE9l3NOGQAWhK0Wvi0vBW0ndX0sWNBScsPfLRWWmFjaGFyeSBI YW1lZCAoSGlnaCBTY2hvb2wgU3R1ZGVudCBhbmQgRmVkb3JhIERvY3MgQ29udHJp YnV0b3IpIDx6YWNoZmVkb3JhQGdtYWlsLmNvbT6IYAQTEQIAIAUCR+iJngIbIwYL CQgHAwIEFQIIAwQWAgMBAh4BAheAAAoJEKKlT+L+xuf25d8An31S/k3oepwYT7if LlHQrYxTusSEAJ9tuJreyAhOYIDhUD5zmnddXnBj7bkCDQRH6ImeEAgAjMtcFkaT TUVx6aGzelAGqHwlApFlQ70mJE+fUqyOLT/abEdX2aw+UWXOLMFkMKY0kBnlQtE9 n5IJwHGfUge0Al2fhJA4dy/fV6v78rqV9GBbA08MZ4n+HI6F89P0VLeYrB/20IgB IgcWimDwC2A22MIQzOoKJcylQIagSxfTxliTjKgG2IxY/9yn3NHSHh3jI3nUfW3F hOxzV0/l9P9en+4/bect2qheRLMpJB/jo0/ZDnJJ4VP3pZ+HeTZ2zsvAaED2M6aX 1tuqb/PYQLRoW7rXpGbBW1JC1x8sKZUgu/wVBYmTDekeO/y+kqE03lfLpWb4/Y/b orXKCe9D0xasFwADBQgAgeKd3f+HPwpIXZ8i0/IErLt7xGO342zAWzKMI0vCWE/2 5mG9EwmJqH2yDI4hSd6rfyzxV1QXTBBnrXqZagrdbWXXmhQiZwu6kSgUUwcEW9C0 ZWcByeiVzjkuUDTz7Krr6aJgdk/IqDa1QsvMFC1CQpI/U7DAksg9L+MTwR8300wl uCC7gQo3P9m7IOKSHLO3uRwkz/koYNHzfdF0Gnsn/ccAS1VNW77wWGa7lDzEBchY LBEVjeA8P2WE3Re6cjJDNy1RAnpkS/kAa5d+NYMqfwPvWFQ+VX8Utt4cMaZdsAh2 VdKW9OQt0zmF77EzxUvenp4ARjpacyKu7M3Ufgu51IhJBBgRAgAJBQJH6ImeAhsM AAoJEKKlT+L+xuf2IJwAn1WvpJrPTU1W8eEBdvYe1ciwxx8VAJ9TjiM5+6Y0YG7M dzWBVeCzF8cvDA== =QFDP -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- -- fedora-docs-list mailing list fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list
