On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 14:50, Travis Whitlock <btw9979(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello all,
My name is Travis Whitlock and I am an American currently living in
Darmstadt, Germany. This is my first time contributing to an open source
project and I am very excited to help out. I would really like to offer
something in return to the open source community that has already helped me
and I really believe in the cause of free software. I chose Fedora because
I have tried several Linux distros and Fedora is by far my favorite. Below
are my answers to the standard questions from the website:
1. What other projects or writing have you worked on in the past?
I spent 8 years in the US Air Force and worked as an information
manager. This job involved lots of writing for high level military
officers. Its not the style I will be using in the documentation for Fedora
but it did teach me a lot about writing. After my military time I started
working as a system administrator. I have done lots of server documentation
which usually involves writing the occasional "idiot-proof" walkthrough.
2. What level and type of computer skills do you have?
I have been working in IT for 14 years as a system administrator. I am
getting my big break into systems engineering in Jan 2011 at a company that
uses Linux to build secure computing systems. I have experience with many
different systems including: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Sun Solaris 8/10,
Trusted Solaris, and Windows (3.1 and up). I have very little college time
behind me but several industry certifications.
I also enjoy programming and scripting. I have experience with bash,
csh, perl, python, windows powershell, C# and the .net framework. My best
accomplishment so far as a programmer is that I wrote a set of scripts that
replaced my companies broken MS Systems Management Server (SMS). I even
built a cool GUI so that my coworkers (windows admins) could use it. :) I
love to code but I am a little intimidated by OS and App development so I
decided to start off helping with documentation.
3. What other skills do you have that might be applicable?
I have lots of experience with US govt IT systems. So if anyone ever has
questions about how the govt does IT I can probably help you out.
4. What makes you an excellent match for the project?
I am very excited and inexperienced but enthusiasm counts for something.
I just want to start off with something simple and work my way up to more
difficult tasks. Having a mentor would be nice.
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I look forward to meeting the folks on the documentation team.
Travis Whitlock
Welcome aboard, Travis. Sounds like you have skills that will be
quite useful in the Project.
Please join us on IRC[1] in #fedora-docs. That is where our
day-to-day operations occur. We also meet[2] on Thursdays at 00:01
UTC in #fedora-meeting.
[1]
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate#IRC
[2]
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs_Project_meetings
Again, welcome aboard!
--Eric Christensen
Fedora Docs Project Lead