On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, James Lawrie wrote:

Hi List,

I'm looking to contribute to Fedora and here's my introduction as per the wiki.

I'm James and I'm based in the UK (UTC). I work as a Linux Engineer (mostly technical support) for a hosting company. I'm recently Redhat certified and I used to be a lot more heavily into scripting (mainly Perl) than I am now.

I'm joining partly because I want to give something back, but mostly because I want to truly understand the systems I work on daily and be able to look back in decades to come and say I was part of it.

The amount of time I'll be able to contribute differs massively depending on my rota. Some weeks I'll be looking to give 10-20 hours (maybe more), other weeks I'll only be able to give maybe 4 hours.

I'm looking to help out in any way I can, mostly wherever I can help out sysadmin wise along with any bugzapping I can do. I can't be more specific yet but hopefully after a week or two of hanging around I'll have a better idea.

My LinkedIn profile gives a little more information regarding my abilities http://www.linkedin.com/in/jameslawrie and I hope my ServerFault profile (which I've been working on for about a month) gives a hint of my technical ability: http://serverfault.com/users/37667/james-lawrie

Hello James, well to get started we have to figure out what you're most interested in doing. I think you and I chatted a bit on irc, I'm always there if you have any questions.

-Mike