My name is Travis Whitlock and I am an American currently living in Darmstadt, Germany. This is my first time contributing to an open source project and I am very excited to help out. I would really like to offer something in return to the open source community that has already helped me and I really believe in the cause of free software. I chose Fedora because I have tried several Linux distros and Fedora is by far my favorite. Below are my answers to the standard questions from the website:
1. What other projects or writing have you worked on in the past?
I spent 8 years in the US Air Force and worked as an information manager. This job involved lots of writing for high level military officers. Its not the style I will be using in the documentation for Fedora but it did teach me a lot about writing. After my military time I started working as a system administrator. I have done lots of server documentation which usually involves writing the occasional "idiot-proof" walkthrough.
2. What level and type of computer skills do you have?
I have been working in IT for 14 years as a system administrator. I am getting my big break into systems engineering in Jan 2011 at a company that uses Linux to build secure computing systems. I have experience with many different systems including: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Sun Solaris 8/10, Trusted Solaris, and Windows (3.1 and up). I have very little college time behind me but several industry certifications.
I also enjoy programming and scripting. I have experience with bash, csh, perl, python, windows powershell, C# and the .net framework. My best accomplishment so far as a programmer is that I wrote a set of scripts that replaced my companies broken MS Systems Management Server (SMS). I even built a cool GUI so that my coworkers (windows admins) could use it. :) I love to code but I am a little intimidated by OS and App development so I decided to start off helping with documentation.
3. What other skills do you have that might be applicable?
I have lots of experience with US govt IT systems. So if anyone ever has questions about how the govt does IT I can probably help you out.
4. What makes you an excellent match for the project?
I am very excited and inexperienced but enthusiasm counts for something. I just want to start off with something simple and work my way up to more difficult tasks. Having a mentor would be nice.
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I look forward to meeting the folks on the documentation team.
Travis Whitlock
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