On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 15:30 -0500, Ella Deon Lackey wrote: > Hi. Hi Deon! > I'm new to the Fedora Project (despite having used Fedora or Red Hat > for a few years), but I do have a lot of experience with two other > Fedora Projects, Fedora Directory Server and Dogtag Certificate > System(check them out at directory.fedoraproject.org and > pki.fedoraproject.org). I think I could help out with the SELinux and > RPM documentation on the task list, and I'm good for bug fixing and > formatting changes. > > I have basically no real programming experience; I'm what I call a > "practical user" of RHEL 4 and Fedora 8, meaning I poke around to > install and configure things and use it for regular business, but I'm > not adventurous about scripting things. I also have a lot of > experience with wikis, static web design (HTML and CSS), very limited > graphic design skills, and years of experience with DocBook XML and, > to a lesser extent, XSLT. For two years, I was a newspaper reporter, > so I also have experience writing articles and press releases, > researching, conducting interviews, copyediting, and biting my tongue. Ha, sense of humor definitely helps! And your other skills will serve you well around here. We still maintain quite a bit of DocBook XML here, not the least of which is the Release Notes, the Installation Guide, and I think we have a RPM Guide in those boxes over in the corner. We are trying out the concept of moving these docs to Fedora Hosted as individual projects, and maintaining them there. > I have no idea if I'm an excellent match for the project, although I > hope I have something to offer. I think there is a lot I can learn > here. We're overjoyed to have you -- please join us in IRC Freenode at #fedora-docs. Many people there can offer advice on how you can maintain a presence there even while you're offline if you don't do that already. -- Paul W. Frields gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://paul.frields.org/ - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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