I am a graduate of The Ohio State University with a bachelors degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering (it's only one major despite covering two subjects), class of the Summer of 2004. I currently work as a web developer for a small consulting firm in Columbus, Ohio whose primary business relates to virtual schooling, including homeschooling & charter school programs.
My personal experience with Fedora started with Fedora Core 5, when I installed it on my computer just to play & explore a GNU/Linux operating system. Though I'd been a support of free software since I understood what it was, I had not yet been ready to take the plunge & commit myself to it. That experience changed it for me, and by the time Fedora Core 6 was released, I had switched to using it as my main system. Prior to using Fedora, though, I had been using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 & 4 on two servers that I leased for hosting my own web sites since 2004 & 2005, respectively, so I grew familiar with a command-line *nix environment through managing those servers. I am what some would call a free software fundamentalist, because I believe free software is fundamentally better due to the principle that is free as in freedom.
I have had some experience writing documentation for projects & programs before, but nothing as large-scale as Fedora. I am a native speaker of the English language, having been born & raised in the US my whole life. I tend to be picky about grammar where I notice a mistake, and I am pedantic when it comes to ensuring what has been stated is factually correct. I consider myself to be verbose, but clear, when I write, but that is a judgment best left for others. ;) I have done a little documentation work for the Fedora Unity project, but that stalled when I had to move on to other projects at that time.
I have been using computers since I was very young, as there has always been a computer of some kind available in our homes. Being a developer, I suppose that I am an "expert" computer using on most platforms, with the exception of Mac OS, as I do not own any Apple hardware.
As I mentioned earlier, I am a web developer by trade & hobby. I work primarily with PHP & MySQL. I would describe myself as a PHP guru, but I wouldn't disagree if others claimed I was. ;) I have been programming for over 6 years, having taught myself PHP after learning basic Perl to parse HTML tables to convert them to Microsoft Excel documents (yuck!). I was also encouraged by my desire to write my own website code for listing files for people to download.
I feel I am an excellent match for the Fedora Documentation project because I believe that free software is fundamentally superior, I communicate well, and I want to contribute to something that will benefit people & make free software easier for people to use by having quality resources available to them.
My GPG fingerprint follows:
pub 1024D/25DB6E43 2008-12-11 Key fingerprint = 29B4 52ED 2335 1948 652A 22BB 873C DA6A 25DB 6E43 uid Basil Mohamed Gohar (Basil's GPG key) <abu_hurayrah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> sub 2048g/7B467FE6 2008-12-11I look forward to contributing more in the future, and I will follow-up with an idea I had which is what encouraged Karsten to prompt me to officially join the project in the first place.
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