Welcome Mark!
Paul is right that we are looking for more contributors, and now is
a good time. I am spearheading a project to update the Deployment
Guide for Fedora 12, which is a book that might interest you. We are
definitely looking for good writers with networking experience; the
guide's second major part contains chapters on Network Interfaces,
Network Configuration, Service Access, OpenSSH, Samba, DHCP
(Servers), Apache, FTP, Email, and LDAP. The online copy lives here:
http://dsilas.fedorapeople.org/Deployment_Guide/en-US/html-single/
And the project page is here, along with a link to the mailing list:
https://fedorahosted.org/deploymentguide/
It is not necessary to write in DocBook XML to contribute, though of
course you would be welcome to. The Deployment Guide (and probably
the other DocBook projects) currently adhere to DocBook 4.5, which
is DTD-based instead of Relax NG-based (theoretically unfortunate, I
agree, but turns out to matter little in practice). We use the
Publican publishing tool to build the documentation (I am testing
the much-faster Publican 1.0 beta for building the Deployment Guide,
and it's working well so far):
https://fedorahosted.org/publican/
If you have any questions or suggestions, please let us know! Hope
to see you on IRC on Wednesday.
Cheers,
Silas
On 09/15/2009 12:34 AM, marwalk@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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Thank you for the opportunity to introduce myself. I Googled the name
"Mark Walker" and about 22,600,000 hits were returned; none of them me
in the first few pages. I then Googled the name "Mark Caldwell Walker"
and about 168,000 hits were returned; all of them me in the first few
pages.
As one of those "older guys" my curriculum vitae might not be the best
approach for an introduction, but I will point out that I've had plenty
of chances to make mistakes and to learn from them. I do love to learn,
and that's one of the reasons I'm here. I am here also in search of new
challenges, new ways to produce meaningful results that actually help
people, and along with that genuine personal fulfillment. That might
seem a little demanding, especially from someone who's not yet retired
from his day job and therefore has only nights and weekends to offer for
now. But I sense that the time is right for me to venture into these
areas where I've only been lurking in listservs for far too long.
My writing projects include the three science fiction novels that appear
in the Google search returns mentioned above. My professional writing
includes some newspaper writing in my younger years, which naturally
followed my BA in Journalism. I've since written some professional
documents for previous employers, which were in the telecommunications
and computer project management fields and briefed them to executive
management.
My other degree is an MS in Management. That's not very computer related
on the surface, but I've also been a licensed radio amateur since 1967
(although I'm "rare DX") and my first home computer was a Commodore 64.
I'm not a programmer, but I've played with FORTRAN, Basic, Pascal, C++,
Visual Basic, Java, and Bash scripting. Certs include A+ and Network+,
and I've been studying up on Security+ and Certified Ethical Hacker. In
the past few years I've been researching XML, and think I could produce
DocBook products based on the v5 RELAXNG schema.
I also have a radio broadcasting background that spans about 9
commercial stations. This was on-air experience; yes, I was your
friendly local radio DJ. My production of the FredPod podcast (feel free
to Google it) is my effort to enjoy broadcasting activities that take
advantage of the people-empowering trends in this field. I've been
attempting to get the open source Rivendell application running, but so
far that remains a work in progress.
One other thing about me that might be of interest is I'm also known as
"Santa Claus." I like to say that the white beard is real and so is the
jolliness, but I wear the red suit only on special occasions anymore.
Pleased to meet you,
Mark
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Douglas Silas
Technical Writer | Red Hat, Inc.
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