Hello all,<div> 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:</div>
<div><br></div><div><i>1. What other projects or writing have you worked on in the past? </i> </div><div> 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. </div>
<div><br></div><div><i>2. What level and type of computer skills do you have?</i></div><div> 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.</div>
<div> 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.</div>
<div><br></div><div><i>3. What other skills do you have that might be applicable?</i></div><div><i> </i>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div><i>4. What makes you an excellent match for the project?</i></div><div><i> </i>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>GPG KEYID and Fingerprint</div><div><br></div><div><div>pub 2048R/98824C0B 2010-11-03</div><div> Key fingerprint = 630C AF6D D95A F129 97FC 3BA1 A3AD 261A 9882 4C0B</div><div>uid Benjamin Travis Whitlock <<a href="mailto:btw9979@gmail.com">btw9979@gmail.com</a>></div>
<div>sub 2048R/C944289E 2010-11-03</div></div><div><br></div><div>I look forward to meeting the folks on the documentation team.</div><div><br></div><div>Travis Whitlock</div>