How to submission
by gaurav
Hi,
I have written a tutorial on installing Oracle 9i on FC3. Basically
9i installation on RAS 1,2,3 RH 9, fc1, fc 2 is documented fairly well
but its hard to find anything worth while on FC3, some people even
suggested installing Oracle 9i on FC3 is not possible !! .This How to
attempts to condense all my experience /findings with any such info
peculiar to FC3 which scattered all over web in to one concise but
useful Doc.
Regards,
Gaurav
19 years
Self-Introduction
by Tommy Reynolds
Subject
1. Self-Introduction: Tommy Reynolds
I have been involved in Fedora Docs for some time now, mostly as a
lurker and an "ex cathedra" developer voice. For those of you who have
successfully managed to avoid meeting me, I've prepared this SI.
Body
1. Full legal name - James T Reynolds
2. City, Country - Decatur, Alabama USA
3. Profession - Oldest Software Guy (OSG)
4. Company - MegaCoder.com
5. Your goals in the Fedora Project
* What do you want to write about?
I'd prefer to review rather than compose, as a rule.
* What other documentation do you want to see published?
Something akin to Jon Bentley's "Programming Perls"
series.
* Do you want to edit for grammar/writing and/or technical
accuracy?
Yeah, I'll do either from time to time.
* Anything else special?
Perhaps I could help with stylesheets and toolchains.
6. Historical qualifications
* What other projects or writing have you worked on in the
past?
A few Red Hat Developer courses, such as "Embedded System
Engineering", "Application Development and Porting".
I've also suckered a magazine editor or so, such as for
Telecommunications magazine and Network Today. Lotsa other project
documents, even MIL-SPEC stuff.
* What level and type of computer skills do you have?
35+ years of rocket science, embedded systems, operating
system internals, telecommunications, SCADA and more than
250 UNIX/Linux device drivers.
* What other skills do you have that might be applicable?
User interface design, other so-called soft skills (people skills),
programming, etc.
I teach Linux kernel internal, device driver, and other
classes.
I don't do GUI's. In Japan, my nickname is NOGUI, which I'm assured
does not translate into something hideous.
* Why should we trust you? <--- too blunt?
Literate software developer, fair keyboardist, but most of
all, devilishly handsome.
7. GPG KEYID and fingerprint
gpg --fingerprint Tommy.Reynolds(a)MegaCoder.com
pub 1024D/44039501 2004-02-11 Tommy Reynolds
<Tommy.Reynolds(a)MegaCoder.com> Key fingerprint = 8615 A915 3DA6 2395
A728 AFBF FF4C 9DAA 4403 9501 sub 1024g/3CEDDD5F 2004-02-11
Cheers!
19 years
Self-Introduction: Duncan Lithgow
by Duncan Lithgow
from: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject_2fSelfIntroduction
> The below items in bold are Required while the other items are
optional but highly recommended.
WTF!!?? People volunteer to help and get rather long list of *required*
information!!?? I reserve further comment and decided it would be bad
form for a new user to edit the wiki... I won't even start talking about
right to privacy and the idea of a meritocracy!
Anyway...
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1. Duncan Lithgow
2. I'm in the city of Århus in Denmark (pronounced 'oar-huus'), but
New Zealander by birth and taste in breakfast cereals.
3. I'm trained as an architect, self taught so-so php programmer
but good with html/css. Currently doing boring labour temping.
Done lot's of other irrelevant stuff. Oh, one relevant thing is
I'm a trained 'english as a foreign language' (efl/esl) teacher
- so i'm passionate on the need for docs written in easy to
understand english - far too much is written for advanced
english speakers - think how many non english speakers try to
make use of these docs.
4. n/a
5. Your goals in the Fedora Project
* What do you want to write about?
* - don't know yet. Maybe 'Why should your non-nerd
girlfriend/boss/college use linux and how to convince
them and them her'
* What other documentation do you want to see published? -
see above
* Do you want to edit for grammar/writing and/or technical
accuracy?
* - yes/yes/no
* Anything else special?
* - editing for friendliness to esl readers.
6. Historical qualifications
* What other projects or writing have you worked on in the
past?
* - while learning postnuke cms I wrote this about the
theme system, I thought it was poorly documented and
neede to keep track of what I was learning. I've since
turned the xml file over to the postnuke docs team ( i
don't use postnuke any more) http://www.lithgow-
schmidt.dk/pnThemeManual_v01/ch01.html
* What level and type of computer skills do you have?
* - modest, just starting to learn the command line. Long
time semi-power-user of windows.
* What other skills do you have that might be applicable?
User interface design, other so-called soft skills
(people skills), programming, etc.
* - good at cross-culture communication, constructive
critic of design quality of gui's in terms of logical
structure and intuitiveness.
* Why should we trust you? <--- too blunt?
* You shouldn't until I've proved myself, but hey, get
over it, we're talking about writing docs!
7. GPG KEYID and fingerprint
* Be sure that your GPG key is uploaded to pgp.mit.edu.
Use "gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --send-key KEYID".
* Your GPG fingerprint is 40 hexadecimal characters long,
while your KEYID is the last 8 digits.
* Below is an example of a block of text suitable for cut
& paste into your self-introduction e-mail.
* sounds like a hastle, follow the link, it's easier:
http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x21A8C63A
So, that's me on a good day, in an impatient tone. ;-)
Duncan
19 years
Self-Introduction: Ronny Buchmann
by Ronny Buchmann
Full legal name:
Ronny Buchmann
City, Country:
near Stuttgart, Germany
Profession or Student status:
I've studied mechanical engineering, but now do system administration and
support in CAE, PLM and Linux.
Company or School
this is my spare time, so it doesn't matter
Your goals in the Fedora Project:
(in order of priority)
* translations (fedora packages and docs)
* QA (mostly rawhide) and bugfixes
* getting HBCI and DVB related stuff into FE (if I find the time)
Historical qualifications:
What other projects have you worked on in the past?
* linuxwiki.de (german wiki about Linux and Free Software)
* fedora translations (German)
* fedora bug hunting
* helping in openhbci2/aqmoney2 (rpmbuilding, man pages)
* local LUG work (http://www.vlug.de)
* some bug fixing in various projects
What computer languages and other skills do you know?
* a bit of python (getting better)
* a bit of docbook, rpm building (mostly local), bash, C, perl
* not relevant to Fedora I think: SAP, CATIA
Why should we trust you?
* search the web (http://www.google.de/search?q=Ronny+Buchmann, it's 99% me)
and decide yourself
GPG KEYID and fingerprint:
pub 1024D/10373979 2003-07-11 Ronny Buchmann <ronny-buchmann(a)vlugnet.org>
Key fingerprint = ED9D A9B8 8A38 52E9 2A1E 143D 47E4 DBC5 1037 3979
uid Ronny Buchmann <ronny-wiki(a)vlugnet.org>
uid Ronny Buchmann (VLUG) <ronny-vlug(a)vlugnet.org>
sub 1024g/94239780 2003-07-11
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http://LinuxWiki.org/RonnyBuchmann
19 years
xsl RFE?
by Paul W. Frields
I've found that while editing some FDP work, and using all the current
material from CVS, HTML rendering is kind of ugly if you have an
<itemizedlist> inside some other container like a <listitem> (i.e.,
nested). Can anyone here suggest or make an enhancement that would add a
small bit of whitespace after </itemizedlist> to make the text flow more
pleasing?
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Paul W. Frields, RHCE
19 years
re:tow to recruit writers
by samuel desseaux
Hi !
I've read your answer with a great interest.
Globally,i agree with you with your ideas.For me,they are good.Be a part
of documentation and localisation project sounds like a good idea
because they are complementary.
Moreover,you speak about writing documentation in French and you would
need an editor who could read french:why not?i could be interested.
best regards
sam
19 years
fedora-list guidelines
by Gustavo Seabra
Hi,
I am new to this list. the reason I'm posting here is the following:
At the 'fedora-list' there has been a recent community effort to
formulate a document with the "guidelines" for posting to that list.
After a number of drafts and discussions, this document has reached a
more mature form, and has been put in the form of a web page:
Original: http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~seabra/linux/FedoraRules.html
Mirror: http://www.cwelug.org/fedora/FedoraRules.html
It is already considered "official", in the sense that it grew from
discussions in the list that have reached a consunsus. As a next step,
we would like to make this document know for most users of the list.
For this, the suggestions we have are:
1. Monthly reminder: having a link or a text-only
version of this document sent automatically
monthly to all subscribers;
2. Part of a welcoming message: Either include a
link in the welcoming message, or send a separate
e-mail with the text-only version of the document
to every new subscriber;
3. Linked to sign-up page: maybe there could be a link
in the sign in page?
4. Link in the sugnature. (in **MY** opinion, this would
likely be the most effective of all.) It would help if
there could be a link in the signature added by RedHat
to all messages distributed. The signature could then
look something like:
--**
fedora-list mailing list
fedora-list(a)redhat.com
To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Before posting to this list, please check << link here >>
4. Submission to Fedora-docs: That last suggestion was made
to make this documet more "official".
So, that's where we are now. Please consider this message as a
"submission" Unless there's another way to do it). We would really
appreciate if the people responsibe could take a look at the page and
consider accepting it, if it seems appropriate.
Thank you very much,
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Gustavo Seabra Graduate Student
Chemistry Dept. Kansas State University
Registered Linux user number 381680
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If at first you don't succeed...
...skydiving is not for you.
19 years
