Hi.
I am signing up for the fedora-docs group. My name is Ella Deon Lackey (and I answer to Ella or Deon). I live north of Tulsa, Oklahoma (that's Central Time in the US). I am a contract tech writer and freelance writer; I work mainly with software and tech companies, although I dabble in anything - alternative energy, home furnishings, HVAC. I've been a professional writer for over six years.
My main goal for joining the group is to observe, get a new way of approaching my work, forge some relationships with users and other writers. It's easy to get insulated and to fall into a habit with writing and with life in general. I want to branch out. The Fedora Project encourages collaboration and interaction at every stage of a project, and that's awesome.
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.
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.
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Thanks! Deon Lackey
Sorry this was hanging, I found it in the admin queue, Deon sent it from a non-subscribed account, which I added to the acceptance filter. :)
On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 15:30 -0500, Ella Deon Lackey wrote:
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.
I think you are an excellent match, but that's because I know you and your work. :)
Welcome!
- Karsten
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.
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