Hey everybody. I'm looking to join the Fedora project to give something back to the community. I've been a Linux user for quite awhile, and Linux has been a big part of a career. Previous to my current role I was a Linux sysadmin/engineer for a couple of years. My client's environment is made up RHEL (75%), Solaris (<5%), and Windows (~20%). The total server count is around 5-6K -- that does include some virtuals, but it is primarily physicals. I definitely work for a large corporation, but I'm not here to represent them in any way at this point in time. I have been using Linux distros for nearly 20 years (probably since around 1997). My current role involves automation of existing processes and tools. Its a lot of trying to introduce people to common scripting practices as well as making systems communicate that previously did not (often through an orchestration engine). I have a lot of skills/knowledge/experiences, some significant, some not so much. Programming/scripting: PHP (w/ MySQL), JS, HTML, CSS, jQuery (mostly for UI), bash, C/C++, Java, Objective C, Perl OSes: Fedora, RHEL, Mac OS X, Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat (pre-enterprise), Windows (server 2008, server 2003, 8, 7, XP, and older OSes) Projects: 1. Fedora customized build for Linux sysadmins/engineers at work (now its a retrofit script) 2. PHP-based front-end for a change management tool -- uses an orchestration engine to do the work, though all of the orchestration steps had to be created (SOAP based in this case, though there were some pre-fabricated operations that helped with this a bit) 3. PHP-based server build/configuration tool -- just for Linux but planning on using it for other OSes eventually. Has multiple levels/objects you can configure: Server, Profile (multiple), OS (w/ hierarchy), and Site/Location 4. PHP-based report/data customized viewer -- a perl script imports a massive CSV to allow updating of the data without having to push around CSV/spreadsheet files 5. iPhone note sharing app 6. Lots of miscellaneous partially finished projects -- mostly game development projects Unfortunately these projects are not open source, so I cannot share them with you. Though the iPhone note sharing app is not open source, I have full rights to it, though I doubt anyone here is interested in that :) Obviously I have many interests. The best summary of my interests would be: computer-based technology. A more focused summary would be: Linux and programming. Today, I am interesting in doing some sysadmin/engineer and possibly web development work. Tomorrow (figuratively speaking), it may be more than that. I'm willing to provide up to 5 hours a week of my time. As far as what I would specifically like to work on -- I have no idea. Right now, I'm hear to listen, learn, and absorb. Eventually I'll find something. I will be browsing the open items to see if there is indeed something I can try to solution, though not yet knowing much details of the infrastructure makes that somewhat difficult. A quick look at the Trac tickets reveals that some cleanup of the tickets might be needed. There are some items open since 2007, which implies they may no longer be valid (unless there is a review process going on to ensure they are indeed valid). IRC: lanica -Phillip