On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 14:50, Travis Whitlock <btw9979@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello all, >  My name is Travis Whitlock and I am an American currently living in > Darmstadt, Germany. ÂThis is my first time contributing to an open source > project and I am very excited to help out. ÂI 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. ÂI chose Fedora because > I have tried several Linux distros and Fedora is by far my favorite. ÂBelow > are my answers to the standard questions from the website: > 1. ÂWhat 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. ÂThis job involved lots of writing for high level military > officers. ÂIts not the style I will be using in the documentation for Fedora > but it did teach me a lot about writing. ÂAfter my military time I started > working as a system administrator. ÂI have done lots of server documentation > which usually involves writing the occasional "idiot-proof" walkthrough. > 2. ÂWhat level and type of computer skills do you have? >  ÂI have been working in IT for 14 years as a system administrator. ÂI am > getting my big break into systems engineering in Jan 2011 at a company that > uses Linux to build secure computing systems. ÂI have experience with many > different systems including: ÂRed Hat Enterprise Linux, Sun Solaris 8/10, > ÂTrusted Solaris, and Windows (3.1 and up). ÂI have very little college time > behind me but several industry certifications. >  ÂI also enjoy programming and scripting. ÂI have experience with bash, > csh, perl, python, windows powershell, C# and the .net framework. ÂMy 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). ÂI even > built a cool GUI so that my coworkers (windows admins) could use it. :) ÂI > love to code but I am a little intimidated by OS and App development so I > decided to start off helping with documentation. > 3. ÂWhat other skills do you have that might be applicable? >  I have lots of experience with US govt IT systems. ÂSo if anyone ever has > questions about how the govt does IT I can probably help you out. > 4. ÂWhat makes you an excellent match for the project? >  ÂI am very excited and inexperienced but enthusiasm counts for something. > ÂI just want to start off with something simple and work my way up to more > difficult tasks. ÂHaving a mentor would be nice. > GPG KEYID and Fingerprint > pub  2048R/98824C0B 2010-11-03 >   ÂKey fingerprint = 630C AF6D D95A F129 97FC Â3BA1 A3AD 261A 9882 4C0B > uid         ÂBenjamin Travis Whitlock <btw9979@xxxxxxxxx> > sub  2048R/C944289E 2010-11-03 > I look forward to meeting the folks on the documentation team. > Travis Whitlock Welcome aboard, Travis. Sounds like you have skills that will be quite useful in the Project. Please join us on IRC[1] in #fedora-docs. That is where our day-to-day operations occur. We also meet[2] on Thursdays at 00:01 UTC in #fedora-meeting. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate#IRC [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs_Project_meetings Again, welcome aboard! --Eric Christensen Fedora Docs Project Lead -- docs mailing list docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/docs
