On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Zachary Hamed <zachfedora@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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----- > Hey, I usually add the following to the end: pub 1024D/81B3FDEB 2007-09-19 [expires: 2008-09-18] Key fingerprint = 4ED9 9907 5BF0 4132 2B46 20D1 C0C6 362D 81B3 FDEB Murray McAllister (Fedora Docs Project / mdious) <murray.mcallister@xxxxxxxxx> sub 2048g/B04CFA0C 2007-09-19 [expires: 2008-09-18] You can get this information by running "gpg --fingerprint user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx my case this would be "gpg --fingerprint murray.mcallister@xxxxxxxxx". Hope the helps... Thanks, Murray. pub 1024D/81B3FDEB 2007-09-19 [expires: 2008-09-18] Key fingerprint = 4ED9 9907 5BF0 4132 2B46 20D1 C0C6 362D 81B3 FDEB Murray McAllister (Fedora Docs Project / mdious) <murray.mcallister@xxxxxxxxx> sub 2048g/B04CFA0C 2007-09-19 [expires: 2008-09-18] -- fedora-docs-list mailing list fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list
