On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 15:30 -0500, Ella Deon Lackey wrote:
Hi.
Hi Deon!
I'm new to the Fedora Project (despite having used Fedora or Red
Hat
for a few years), but I do have a lot of experience with two other
Fedora Projects, Fedora Directory Server and Dogtag Certificate
System(check them out at
directory.fedoraproject.org and
pki.fedoraproject.org). I think I could help out with the SELinux and
RPM documentation on the task list, and I'm good for bug fixing and
formatting changes.
I have basically no real programming experience; I'm what I call a
"practical user" of RHEL 4 and Fedora 8, meaning I poke around to
install and configure things and use it for regular business, but I'm
not adventurous about scripting things. I also have a lot of
experience with wikis, static web design (HTML and CSS), very limited
graphic design skills, and years of experience with DocBook XML and,
to a lesser extent, XSLT. For two years, I was a newspaper reporter,
so I also have experience writing articles and press releases,
researching, conducting interviews, copyediting, and biting my tongue.
Ha, sense of humor definitely helps! And your other skills will serve
you well around here. We still maintain quite a bit of DocBook XML
here, not the least of which is the Release Notes, the Installation
Guide, and I think we have a RPM Guide in those boxes over in the
corner. We are trying out the concept of moving these docs to Fedora
Hosted as individual projects, and maintaining them there.
I have no idea if I'm an excellent match for the project,
although I
hope I have something to offer. I think there is a lot I can learn
here.
We're overjoyed to have you -- please join us in IRC Freenode at
#fedora-docs. Many people there can offer advice on how you can
maintain a presence there even while you're offline if you don't do that
already.
--
Paul W. Frields
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