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Self-Introduction: Ravi Sagar
by ravisagar＠gmail.com 11 Sep '07

11 Sep '07

- Full legal name (as you use it is fine): RAVI SAGAR - City, Country; you may use your timezone if you have a compelling reason not to specify your city or country: DELHI, INDIA - Profession or Student status: PROJECT COORDINATOR - Company, School, or other affiliation: KAPLAN INDIA - Your goals in the Fedora Project - What do you want to write about?: TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION, TESTING, MAINTAINING FEDORA WEBSITES, OS DEVELOPMENT - What other documentation do you want to see published? GENERAL TOPICS - Anything else you'd like to do? - Historical qualifications - What other projects or writing have you worked on in the past? THIS IS MY FIRST TIME WITH FEDORA - What level and type of computer skills do you have? EXPERT USER, PROGRAMMING - What other skills do you have that might be applicable? User interface design, other so-called soft skills (people skills), programming, etc. : PROJECT MANAGEMENT, LITTLE BIT PROGRAMMING - What makes you an excellent match for the project? I AM INTO PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND COMMUNICATING THROUGH EMAILS AND TECHNICAL DOCUMENTS IS A PART OF MY JOB - GPG KEYID and fingerprint pub 1024D/43307D2A 2007-08-26 Key fingerprint = 2DA7 AC73 457E 3C36 7BD1 4D52 8ACC 931E 4330 7D2A uid Ravi Sagar <ravisagar(a)gmail.com> sub 1024g/AF338DFF 2007-08-26 Thanks!! Ravi Sagar

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Self-Introduction: Richard Bukovansky
by Bukovansky Richard 11 Sep '07

11 Sep '07

Hello everyone, as requested on Docs page, little bit of self-introduction... Name: Richard Bukovansky Location: Prague, Czech Republic Status: Release Engineer Company: Monster Technologies Prague Goals: Provide Czech translation of Fedora Docs as it's in very bad shape and also translate other texts (Wiki, FWN etc.) Qualifications: I have translated a few applications for Israel based company SBSH (www.sbsh.net) which is developing Windows Mobile and Symbian applications, and few other free (as free beer) Symbian applications. Computer history: More then 10 years Windows (client and server) sysadmin and developer in ASP/VBScript/SQL and in .NET/C# (5 years). I'm also Red Hat Linux 6 & 7 and Fedora Core 6 user, currently almost happily running Fedora 7 on my laptop. GPG stuff: pub 1024D/5CFF60FB 2007-08-15 [expires: 2008-08-14] Key fingerprint = CB96 D12E B368 BE85 C637 4211 FD0A 7896 5CFF 60FB uid Richard Bukovansky (Richard Bukovansky Fedora Account System) <richard.bukovansky(a)atlas.cz> sub 1024g/7628E6C2 2007-08-15 [expires: 2008-08-14] Thank you for your patience. -- Bukovansky Richard richard.bukovansky(a)atlas.cz

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README for official ISO spins
by Paul W. Frields 03 Sep '07

03 Sep '07

The Fedora Documentation Project would like an updated README on the official ISO spin for F8. Currently, we are using the updated version of the same README that dates back to at least Red Hat Linux 5.2, according to one prominent engineering guru. This would be a good effort for Marketing, and to make sure we cover the bases, I've left a short outline on a wiki page for drafting. This page is editable by anyone and we can set a deadline of 10 days for content, which we would like to get into the test3 spin if at all possible. If you'd like to be involved, visit this wiki page and follow the outline: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/README If you see something missing, please feel free to add it. The Docs Project volunteers will edit for grammar and usage, although good grammar and usage is always appreciated. :-) -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Project: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PaulWFrields irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug

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Easy task #1
by Paul W. Frields 30 Aug '07

30 Aug '07

If there are any new Docs Project contributors looking for somewhere to start, you could try this task: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=251736 The ever-vigilant Till Maas reported we have some redundancy and confusion between two wiki pages. Any contributor with wiki access can look at the two pages, come up with a strategy for consolidating them, and go to it! Anyone up for this small task? -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Project: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PaulWFrields irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug

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New release-notes component
by Paul W. Frields 29 Aug '07

29 Aug '07

Over the next day or so I would like to add a new module, "readme-live," to our CVS, to be included in the fedora-release-notes collection. This file will be included on live spins so anyone who receives one will have some clues what to do with it. The document was generously drafted by Nelson Strother, by the way; I will do an editorial pass on it in CVS and do the necessary Makefile-cobbling to get it included. Followups, questions, and concerns to the fedora-docs-list are appreciated and happily addressed! :-) -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Project: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PaulWFrields irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug

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My Fedora Wikiname
by Sam Chen 29 Aug '07

29 Aug '07

Hi, Yuan Yijun, My Fedora Wikiname is ShenenChen. I generated gpg several days ago using FC4, and I forgot to attached it to self-introduction letter. Two days ago, I switched from FC4 to FC6. I have not formatted the FC4 partition yet, so I might be able to recover the the gpgkey. However, since I am new to gpg, it will take me some time before I can recover it and migrate it to FC6. Thanks for reminding me of getting a Fedora Wikiname. Best Regards, Sam > Hi, Sam > > Do you have a fedora account? Have you registered your wiki name > ``SamChen`` or ``ShenEnChen``? > > Thanks! ____________________________________________________________________________________ Choose the right car based on your needs. Check out Yahoo! Autos new Car Finder tool. http://autos.yahoo.com/carfinder/

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apologies for missing today
by Karsten Wade 29 Aug '07

29 Aug '07

Sorry folks for missing the meeting today. I am in training this week and was supposed to be here in class in time to at least tell you all if I was going to be in the meeting or not. Unfortunately, traffic did not oblige, I was late, and didn't get connectivity until many hours later. Better luck next time! -- Karsten Wade ^ Fedora Documentation Project Sr. Developer Relations Mgr. | fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject quaid.fedorapeople.org | gpg key: AD0E0C41 ////////////////////////////////// \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

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Excellent blog entry on documentation
by John Babich 26 Aug '07

26 Aug '07

I think a lot of us in the Fedora Docs Project can agree with the views expressed in Tom Adelson's blog at http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000273 Here's an excerpt: "The Open Source community has so many developers, I find it remarkable. But, projects where 98% of the volunteers develop leaves a wide gap in documentation. You can have all the wikis you want, but if people don't write in them, edit them, publish security problems and instructions for installing and using applications, then those wikis are useless." The whole entry is worth reading, not as negative criticism, but as food for thought.. John Babich Volunteer, Fedora Docs Project

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Self-Introduction: Shen-En Chen (Sam)
by Sam Chen 26 Aug '07

26 Aug '07

Full legal name: Shen-En Chen ---> Or just go by Sam Waco, Texas, USA Timezone -6 US central time I am a student at Baylor University. My goals in the Fedora Project are to help translate useful documents or write documents from English to Chinese or vice versa. Either documentation for software or a system wide message. What other documentation do you want to see published? Just anything that people think is important and significant. Anything else you'd like to do? Historical qualifications What other projects or writing have you worked on in the past? I am a biochemist. So far I have a paper in bioorganic and medicinal chemistry letters in 2004, and a page for international student magazine. What level and type of computer skills do you have? I started my computer life with microsoft windows 3.1 many years ago. I like and used to microsoft windows until five or six years ago, in a research pproject I had to use unix based system to solve problems. Since then I learned how to install, configure and administer unix-like systems. What other skills do you have that might be applicable? User interface design, other so-called soft skills (people skills), programming, etc. What makes you an excellent match for the project? I use unix-like systems for work and I believe I can contribute at least as a regular user. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Got a little couch potato? Check out fun summer activities for kids. http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=summer+activities+for+kids&…

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Looking for writing partner to take care of asthetics.
by Draciron Smith 25 Aug '07

25 Aug '07

Figure this is worth a try. I am expending more time on formating than content right now. I am hoping that somebody here would be interested in teaming up with me and covering the formating allowing me to concentrate on content. This would be ideal for somebody who is not very technical but would like to contribute to the effort. I was never especially good at making things look purty :) If you are interested email me and I'll put you to work ASAP.

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