Self-Introduction: Robert 'Bob' Jensen
by Robert 'Bob' Jensen
Full legal name (as you use it is fine)
Robert 'Bob' Jensen
* St. Cloud, MN, USA
* Consultant
* Complete Business Computer Consulting
* Your goals in the Fedora Project
* What do you want to write about?
* Anything that will be useful for the new user in
plain "non-technical" language. Any geek can
blather on and on about a favorite topic in a
way that the average use can not understand.
Writing docs that the average end user can
understand is key.
* What other documentation do you want to see published?
* So much needs to be done it is hard to pick a
place to start.
* Do you want to edit for grammar/writing and/or technical
accuracy?
* I am willing to help the group in any way I can.
If I never author a document and just help
editing or formatting that is fine with me.
* Historical qualifications
* What other projects or writing have you worked on in the
past?
* I have never done a lot of writing but feel the
need to help the Fedora Community, as a
non-coder I think the Documentation Project is a
perfect fit for me.
* What level and type of computer skills do you have?
* I am a self taught computer user, having done
every thing the wrong way twice while reading
overly technical docs it has made me appreciate
easy to read documentation.
* What other skills do you have that might be applicable?
User interface design, other so-called soft skills
(people skills), programming, etc.
* Being a self employed consultant I have many
skills including website design, web standards
compliance, team leadership and others.
* What makes you an excellent match for the project?
* Many I am sure say they are willing to help, I
am willing to do. I can't wait to get started.
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Robert 'Bob' Jensen
Linux User
Web - http://www.fedoralinks.org/
Web - http://scalug.us/
18 years, 10 months
Michael Hideo-Smith
by Michael Hideo Smith
Michael Hideo-Smith
Alderley, Australia
Engineering
Red Hat Asia-Pacific
Goals:
o Promote OSS Input Methods for complex text languages (scim & iiimf)
o Promote fonts
Historical Qualifications:
BFA, Filmic Writing, University of Southern CA 1995
Story Analyst, (covers) New Line Cinema, 1990-1994
Nonfiction:
o Social Security Administration, Washington Information Network I & II,
InfoLA, InfoBrisbane, Utah QuickCourts, Arizona Quickcourts, LegalAid
Queensland.
Fiction:
o Metrocops, Scouts, 1997, Hollowpoint, Tokyo/Kansas, Love and Rockets
(screenplays)
o Mermaids, Permanent-Part Time, Rising Son (short stories)
Additional Skills:
o Editor, speed-reading
What makes you an excellent match for the project?
o Love of writing and strong desire to ensure people in developing nations can
get access to input method writing technologies and fonts to do homeowork,
write poetry, short stories, love letters without paying a M$ tax.
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Michael H. Smith Red Hat Asia-Pacific
Ph: +61 7 3514 8103 Level 2/5 Gardner Close
Fx: +61 7 3514 8199 Milton, QLD 4064
Mb: +61 418 182 451 Australia
18 years, 10 months
Fedora installation
by John M. Poma
Hi
I run Linux RedHat distro for Enterprise.
I download Fedora FC3-i386-disk01.iso -> disk04.iso.
Reading your web installation site I try:
To start the installation program, boot from the DVD, the first CD, or
the boot CD made from the boot.iso image.
Result: Unable to boot with the iso format file and I think that's
probably normal.
How, with Linux 2.4.21-4.ELsmp, to transform the iso to a bootable CD?
Thanks a lot for your help.
John Poma <swordman(a)actcom.net.il>
18 years, 10 months
Introduction
by W. Guy Thomas
Hello, my name is Guy also known as 'misfit-toy' on #fedora.
An unfortunate choice of nicks made while my daughter was watching
rudolph the rednose reindeer.
In any case, I am joining in here at the direction of mether and quaid
to bring up two web sites I have that are devoted to fedora and see what
direction I should take, if any...
The 1st site is http://fedorasolved.com which is what I call a 'reverse
forum' in which there are no questions, only answers. Users post issues
they have resolved themselves. There are no followup questions unless a
'fix' post is called into question.
The 2nd site is one formed recently by a number of independent website
owners such as myself in the hopes of getting some kind of cohesion
amongst us 'third party' sites. http://fedorasolved.com/fccp
I suppose my first question is one of authenticity? i.e. do you think
these sites are valid in the eyes of fedora-marketing and should they
continue as is, or change, or close?
Fedorasolved is getting quite a bit of traffic lately as people pick up
on it, but I have avoided 'self promotion'.
Are there any plans to incorporate listings of private websites such as
mine and others or are we on our own or are we stepping on toes here?
Just a few starter questions.
Hope to participate here.
Thanks for your consideration.
p.s. I am posting this identical email to fedora-marketing but not
cross-posting it, so if you are on both lists forgive me for the
duplication.
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W. Guy Thomas <mrguytx(a)austin.rr.com>
18 years, 10 months
Bugzilla assistance
by Paul W. Frields
Karsten (or others),
Is it possible that some of the folks here could get Bugzilla
"clearance" to help resolve and reassign bugs in Bugzilla? There's a
number of bugs starting to pile up that are either (1) bugs that should
be filed against other components, (2) quick fixes that we could resolve
after fixing in CVS, or (3) blank bugs saved either by accident or
through user Lack O' Clue(tm). While it's possible that this initial
surge may die down, would you like some help clearing out some of the
chaff? Consider this an offer of same.
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Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/
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18 years, 10 months
glossary.collection
by James Laska
I've been following the setup steps to get dynamic glossary creation
working. The steps are outlined at the following URL:
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/GlossDatabase.html
Are there any known limitations with xsltproc where it will not generate
the glossary database. I've googled on this subject and have found
similar problems encountered by others ... but no resolution. I'm
curious if any others have experience with using glossary.collection?
Thanks,
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James Laska <jlaska(a)redhat.com>
18 years, 10 months
Minutes from 21 June 2005 FDSCo meeting
by Karsten Wade
Enjoy.
Fedora Documentation Steering Committee (FDSCo)
21 June 2005
#fedora-docs on irc.freenode.net
Attendees:
==========
Tammy Fox
Paul Frields
Stuart Ellis
Tommy Reynolds
Karsten Wade
Gavin Henry
New Stuff:
==========
Docs-common module completed. See this message for more details:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2005-June/msg00090.html
Translation process needed. Relnotes are special and need to be
translated throughout test cycles, then a final update to go out with
the fedora-release package. We need a process to vet that quality and
faithfulness of the translation. For the entire release notes
process, there is a hard freeze deadlines, first for the release notes
so test and final translations can be done, then for translation
itself. The relnotes are frozen and perhaps tagged for translation
To resolve PDF toolchain issues, set criteria or test cases for
success.
Task Stuff:
===========
Stuart - File a bug with a suggestion to put the pre-filled bugzilla
at the bottom of a checklist of options, within the relnotes.
Karsten - Minute taker updates the list of tasks at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/FedoraDocsSchedule
following the meeting and release of these minutes.
Karsten - Talk with DKL about upping the rights of FDSCo members for
fedora-docs component in bugzilla
Karsten - Release definition of how tasks are tracked.
1. Whiteboard projects on Wiki
2. Convert each task into a bug report
3. Make one or more master tracker bugs
4. Use the dependency tree in bugzilla to track tasks
reason to use bugzilla is that it is a common tool that will
do enough of what we need, as long as we use a manual
workflow on top of it.
tasks could be documents with their own set of dependencies,
or a chapter, a feature request, etc.
tasks can be infrastructure related, so for example with
alexandria (staging server), we break it down into the
pieces that need work.
then
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/FedoraDocsSchedule/
becomes a place that links to specific master tracking bugs.
this is similar with other wiki pages,
e.g. EditorAssignments
Karsten - Make sure docs and trans are part of main FC schedule.
Start conversation about process with f-trans-l
Karsten - Make staging server description more clear, release to
f-docs-l for comments, work on getting resources.
Karsten - Post mirror-tutorial.
Karsten - Get Stuart and Paul added to the ACLs for f.r.c in cvs.
Paul - Post license question to
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLegalIssues
FDSCo - Subscribe to f-trans-l (for now).
Tommy - Looking at adding Saxon to xmlto.
Tommy - Looking into using gcj to compile Saxon and FOP.
Tommy - Write up how to branch and tag in CVS, for the mailing list
and then for the DocG
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Karsten Wade, RHCE * Sr. Tech Writer * http://people.redhat.com/kwade/
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