Self-Introduction

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Hello all,
   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.

GPG KEYID and Fingerprint

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      Key fingerprint = 630C AF6D D95A F129 97FC  3BA1 A3AD 261A 9882 4C0B
uid                  Benjamin Travis Whitlock <btw9979@xxxxxxxxx>
sub   2048R/C944289E 2010-11-03

I look forward to meeting the folks on the documentation team.

Travis Whitlock
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