another self-introduction
by Andy Grimm
I will follow in the trend of self-introductions:
My name is Andy Grimm. I live in San Francisco and work for Ingres
Corporation in Redwood City. I have been a RH/FC user since 1997, and
spent 5 years as a sysadmin at LexisNexis working primarily on
Solaris-to-Red Hat migrations and new RHEL deployments. I also helped
to deploy about 100 Red Hat / Fedora desktops & laptops there.
Up until last year, my "programming" experience was mostly perl and C,
and nothing particularly fancy. Now i spend more time with python and
java, though it's mostly fixing other people's code rather than creating
anything of my own from scratch.
I have a good bit of experience mucking with HTML and CSS (mostly from 5
to 10 years ago), and I even wrote some documentation in DocBook format
at my last job, and convinced some of my coworkers to do the same.
I am hoping to make some valuable contributions to the Fedora docs, and
I also hope to gain knowledge from this group that I can use to make the
Ingres documentation process better and more open.
I have started lurking on #fedora-docs occasionally, under the nick
"mull".
--Andy
17 years, 2 months
Self Introduction
by Griff 5watt
Hi all:
My name is Aaron Bowman.
I am located in Connecticut, USA, and work as the technology manager for a
small group of medical practices.
I have been using Linux at home for a number of years, and have decided that
it was time that I find a way to give back to the community. I originally
started with downloaded floppies of Debian and Slackware, eventually
settling on Red Hat 5.0. Around RH7 I began trying out other distributions
again, but returned to Red Hat each time. In short, I have used every major
release of Red Hat and Fedora since RH 5.0, and just recently moved up to
FC6 (yeah, finally got wireless to work).
I am not a power user, nor am I a programmer. I have done very small
projects in VB and C++ on Win32; I have worked in PHP, HTML, and SQL in
Linux. I have played with Java, Mono (C#), JavaScript, SGML, XML, COBOL,
Perl, and LaTeX. Alas, I have only played, but would like to do more.
Earlier this month I had the opportunity to go to FUDCon in Boston; I
attended Paul's session on Doc Tools. If I understood the discussion
correctly, the goal is for all documentation to be stored in XML, with a
static web interface, an editable wiki interface, and of course CVS access.
Currently the wiki is not stored in XML and it will need to be converted. I
would like to help with the conversion of the documentation in the wiki to
XML.
I guess the best place to start for now is the following:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2006-November/msg00140.html
I would appreciate guidance and instruction on how to be most useful to the
project.
17 years, 2 months
Possible Solution to DUG Update Dilemma
by John Babich
FDP Team:
As we discussed in the IRC channel yesterday, we finalized the
Fedora Core 6 version of the DUG and want to begin the Fedora
7 DUG editing process on the wiki.
The dilemma seems to be how to preserve the FC6 DUG while
beginning the draft version edits for Fedora Linux 7.
I propose the following solution:
At the Docs/Drafts/DesktopUserGuide link (the one referenced by the
default home page in FC6), we put a notice prominently at the top of
the page like this:
"For the Fedora Core 6 Desktop User Guide, please go to this link",
which points to Docs/DesktopUserGuide.
The *draft* Fedora 7 Desktop User Guide can remain at the current
Docs/Drafts location, clearly labeled as the draft version for Fedora 7.
People who are interested in the FC6 DUG can click through to the
*published* version. Anyone interested in Fedora Linux 7 can follow
the *draft* version, which will be clearly advertised as such.
Does this solve the dilemma?
John Babich
Volunteer, Fedora Docs Project
17 years, 2 months
Release Notes Editing
by Eddie Elizondo
To contribute and edit release notes for FC7, would I just edit the
pages directly from http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats
or is there another process?
Thanks,
Eddie
gpg --fingerprint eddieelizondo(a)sbcglobal.net
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Key fingerprint = 8B5E E6D8 CFB2 0244 EA6A A845 F17B A0A7 22A4 83A6
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17 years, 2 months
Translation project
by Josep Puigdemont
Hi,
I've been contributing to Fedora Project for quite a long time now, as a
translator. Recently I've been wondering if, at some point, the Fedora
Translation Project has been merged with the Documentation Project.
I'm asking because I want to know if I should request to be added to the
cvsdocs group or not, and if I am actually elligable to be in it. Also
if I should send another introduction (I already did back in... uh 2003
I think ;-)
Thanks!
/Josep
17 years, 2 months
Self Intro: Jason Taylor
by Jason
Well, you all have already read the subject no doubt so you know my
name... :) I live near Detroit, MI, USA (EST). I have been using RH for
some time now and since I am not a programmer figured helping write
documentation would be a good way for me to help out. I don't have any
prior experience so will probably need some direction as to how to get
started..
I am open to writing/editing about any aspect of FC, although I have
more experience with FC in the server configuration/usage scenario
(professional experience as a network admin). I would be more than happy
to edit current docs for technical accuracy/typos/grammatical type errors.
That all being said, I look forward to helping and hopefully won't prove
to be a burden as I learn the ropes...
-Jason
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17 years, 2 months
Self introduction: Gayathri Swaminathan
by Gayathri Swaminathan
Dear FDP members:
Firstly, thanks for this great opportunity to be a part of this community. I
have been a Redhat linux user since 2002. I write this email now to quickly
introduce myself and provide some background information.
My full legal name is Gayathri Swaminathan. I originally hail from Chennai,
Tamil Nadu, India, but currently live in the US at Norman, Oklahoma. I hold
a MS in CS and have worked in the IT industry around six years ( as a
systems/network administrator, programmer )
At Norman, I work for the University of Oklahoma as a System Analyst at the
Information technology deparment, College of Continuing Education.
Professionally use Redhat ( as most of our services are deployed in this
platform), but personally use Fedora to stay abreast with the bleeding edge
features/ functions. This also gives me the opportunity to test feature
sets, before the mass deployment in production. My programming tasks include
coding in Perl, Python, Bash scripting and using Postgresql, Mysql.
My goal is to share my gotchas while installing latest features/ packages
to the rest of the community and particularly help with the translation to
Tamil ( my mother tongue). Since Tamil Nadu state government went open
source recently, I feel there is a pressing need for documentation,
community support to improve the average user experience. I am also willing
to contribute in terms of systems adminstration and programming tasks.
While I wrote fairly a lot during my Masters, I would appreciate a secondary
review to my writing :)
Here is my GPG fingerprint:
[gayathri@athena ~]$ gpg --fingerprint 3EFB3D39
pub 1024D/3EFB3D39 2007-02-12 [expires: 2009-02-11]
Key fingerprint = BB80 D6EF ED37 A2CF 1D4A 37FC 78FB D1D8 3EFB 3D39
uid Gayathri Swaminathan <gayathri.swa(a)gmail.com>
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Best regards,
--
Gayathri Swaminathan
17 years, 2 months
