On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Matthew Daniels <danielsmw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey everyone, > > My name is Matthew Daniels and I'm an undergraduate studying Physics > and Astronomy at Clemson University, although my hometown is > Charleston, SC. I've been using Linux as my primary OS for about 5 > years now, and I've been using Fedora since FC6 came out in '06. > > I actually have done a little bit of contract programming, and my > coding skills are mediocre. I'm comfortable is Perl and Java, and > can, for the most part, hold my own in C and Python. But, this is > probably not sufficient for making large-scale contributions to the > Fedora Project. However, I regard myself a pretty good writer, and I > recently realized that I actually kind of enjoy writing program > documentation. So, since Fedora -- and Linux, in general -- have been > so good to me, I've made it one of my personal goals as of late to > start trying to give back to the OSS community. I felt that actually > joining a project and getting my hands dirty would be a good way to do > it. > > Accordingly, this is my first time contributing to a project like > this. In the future, I think I may also wish to become a Fedora > Ambassador and try to push Fedora with Clemson's Linux User Group, > since they're sorta just stuck on Ubuntu right now. But for now, I'd > like to take things one step at a time, and contribute to the > fedora-docs group as much as possible. Hopefully, you guys have > something I can do; even if it's just cleaning up broken links for > now, that's fine. I just want to help. > > So... that's my self introduction! If I missed anything, or if anyone > has any questions, please don't hesitate to email me. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > pub 1024D/5C0D4723 2008-09-20 [expires: 2009-09-20] > Key fingerprint = E9E5 3017 C4A6 1813 A0A9 6D49 84AD EB20 5C0D 4723 > uid Matthew Daniels (danielsmw) <danielsmw@xxxxxxxxx> > sub 2048g/94106677 2008-09-20 [expires: 2009-09-20] > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Cheers, > Matthew Daniels > -- Hi Matthew, Welcome and thanks for getting involved. A couple of links which you may have already seen: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs_Project_content_tasks_for_new_contributors http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Wiki_gardening_tasks Are some of the easier Welcome. I am glad to see another South Carolinian get involved. -- fedora-docs-list mailing list fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list
