Introduction

Mike McGrath mmcgrath at redhat.com
Wed Aug 25 14:48:02 UTC 2010


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


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