Self-Introduction: Stanton Finley
by Stanton Finley
Stanton Max Finley
* Location: Tremonton, Utah, USA
* Profession: Maintenance electrician - Industrial Computerized
Control Systems
* Company: The Malt-O-Meal Company
* Goals in the Fedora Project:
* Composing, proofreading, and editing
installation/configuration documentation for Fedora Core
* Composing, proofreading, and editing
installation/configuration documentation for Fedora Core
compatible third party software applications for parties
who own or believe they own licenses for such software
* Editing for grammar/writing and/or technical accuracy
* Assisting the the dissemination, popularization and
marketing of Fedora Core as an alternative operating
system
* Historical qualifications:
* Technical writing, quality control documentation, style
and grammatical editing
* Word processing, database, spreadsheet, bit-mapped and
vector graphics
* Web page creation, HTML, XHTML, PHP, Perl, MySQL
* Digital art and graphics creation
* Project Management skills
* Author of the "Fedora Core 4 Linux Installation Notes"
series at
http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_4_installation_notes.html and http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_3_installation_notes.html
* Contributor to http://fedoranews.org/
* GPG KEYID and fingerprint:
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Stanton Finley
http://stanton-finley.net/ stanfinley <at> comcast.net
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18 years, 8 months
Re: Linux User Groups
by Rahul Sundaram
HI
In an ideal world, I would have wished for the following:
[1] A portal/wiki/forum for LUGs to be listed (with at least 2 contacts
per LUG)
[2] Small info kit which could be distributed at LUG meets which happen
at Universities/Schools/Community Centers and the like
[3] *101 things you did not know about Fedora* - a small piece about the
project and more importantly *Fedora Core - The Distribution*
[4] Figure out a way to *sell* Fedora goodies
[5] Have Fedora spokesperson at LUGs. This person interacts on a regular
basis with the development of the project and is in a position to talk
about the cool things that make FC nice
[6] Have dedicated BugSquad members from the LUGs
--------
Lets start a wiki for LUG's then.
I personally find things like Fedora Extras repository a important
enhancement for the platform as well as a show case for community
contributions and would like to see a overview of Fedora also look into
other things besides core but on the whole I think the idea of a info
kit for Fedora well worth exploring. Is anyone from the docs team
willing to look at this?. We got a whole lot of people lurking in there
regards
Rahul
Ps: CC'ing docs list for comments
18 years, 8 months
xmlformat
by Paul W. Frields
By way of update, since not everyone reads the chatlog minutes -- I
checked in with Paul DuBois, author, and verified that any funkiness of
tag attribute indentation is not due to xmlformat bugginess, but just a
function of xmlformat's "leave well enough alone" attitude. It does not
reformat tag attributes as part of the prettification process, so any
indentation stays as is. This does not really present any problems for
us per se.
I have been continually updating xmlformat-fdp.conf to handle tags I
encounter. We should be able to deal with any future goobers easily
without creating disturbing diffs. It's probably time to think about
putting this in the CVS toolchain for all XML file commits in docs.
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Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/
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Fedora Documentation Project: http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/docs/
18 years, 8 months
Approval
by Paul W. Frields
Karsten,
I tried adding the yum doc to the web CVS, and was denied access. I
realized that I needed cvsfedora rights in the account system, so I
applied, but haven't yet been approved. If you have rights to do this,
it would be great if you could. Otherwise I can bother someone else, if
you can make a suggestion... Although sponsorship is apparently
"unneeded," according to the account system, I'm sure that someone would
feel better if they knew you were vouching for said access. :-)
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Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/
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Fedora Documentation Project: http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/docs/
18 years, 8 months
Now Seeking Guinea Pigs (Mentors)
by Patrick W. Barnes
Following recent discussions, the Mentors page on the wiki was created
recently. It did little more than list where potential contributors
might go. I have moved that information to the HelpWanted page, cleaned
it up, and created new content for the Mentors page. As part of doing
so, I have started the list of volunteer mentors on that page.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mentors
If you would be willing to mentor new contributors to Fedora, please
consider adding yourself to that list. Hopefully, having such an open
list will work out. This will be a list that curious contributors can
select mentors from. Please be careful and descriptive in your
listing. Please keep in mind that if you are bombarded with requests,
you are free to remove your name from the list, but we need to try to
manage requests to keep that from happening. As the list grows, if you
are getting more requests than you can handle, please try to pass
requests along to other, less-bombarded mentors rather than unleash your
wrath on new contributors.
I have posted this message to fedora-devel-list, fedora-extras-list,
fedora-marketing-list, and fedora-docs-list. Please don't shoot me, we
need all the mentors we can get from every facet of the Project.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mentors
--
Patrick "The N-Man" Barnes
nman64(a)n-man.com
www.n-man.com
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18 years, 8 months
FDSCo meeting 2 August minutes
by Karsten Wade
FDSCo Meeting
2 August 2005
Attendees:
==========
Tommy Reynolds
Karsten Wade
Paul Frields
Gavin Henry
Robert Jensen (visitor)
Updates:
========
* Push-to-Publish Week (P2PW) needs some follow-up:
* Yum Software Management - ready to release
* Mirror Tutorial - beta release and RFC
* Update Guide - deprecated
* Focus on recruiting, we need more writers with content and ideas
* Focus on getting existing people excited, writing, and publishing.
Actions:
========
Karsten - read mirror-tutorial by Wed.
Paul - publish beta and RFC
Karsten - call to arms on list for lurkers
All - consider 1:1 contact from FDSCo members to all self-intros
Paul - schedule check on f-dsco-l, see if meeting time still works
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Karsten Wade, RHCE * Sr. Tech Writer * http://people.redhat.com/kwade/
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Red Hat SELinux Guide
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/selinux-guide/
18 years, 8 months
visit us at the Fedora Project booth at LinuxWorld San Franicsco
by Karsten Wade
August 9, 10, and 11 in San Francisco I'll be helping to run the Fedora
Project booth in the .org pavilion at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo.
Aside from just chatting up Fedora and friends, we will have short,
booth-based presentations on subjects such as anaconda, kickstart,
Fedora Extras, Fedora Directory Server, Java and FC4, and SELinux.
Tuesday night at 5:30 is the Fedora Project Birds of a Feather (BoF).
This goes until 7 pm. I hope to see you there.
- Karsten
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http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/selinux-guide/
18 years, 8 months
CSS for HTML output
by Paul W. Frields
Pursuant to the following bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=159147
...I made some changes to the CSS in the Docs Project CVS. Rahul was
looking (correctly, Karsten and I think) for a look that would
differentiate our docs from Red Hat's. Most of our style sheet comes
from the one that Red Hat uses, in particular the coloration of headings
and admonitions.
I moved the headings to a blue color taken directly from the Fedora web
site CSS (the sidebar, to be more specific), and for the admonition
boxes, I came up with a yellow that is hopefully attention-getting
without being garish. I left the coloration of screen sections alone
since there wasn't a clear reason to change it. Refer to a mock-up here
to avoid having to build anything yourself:
http://docs.frields.org/mirror-tutorial-en/sn-planning-and-setup.html
If I can speak for Karsten, pursuant to a conversation we had today, we
would like to know what people think about adopting this CSS for DocBook
generated pages on the fedora.redhat.com web site.
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Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/
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Fedora Documentation Project: http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/docs/
18 years, 8 months
Re: [Fwd: Re: Cannot get mock to work]
by Paul W. Frields
On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 11:26 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 11:16 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > Seth is making a plea hereunder for some help with mock documentation.
> > We have some developer types on this list who are not overworked (yet);
> > could anyone spare him some time? If you watch the other lists, you see
> > how busy he and the rest of the Fedora Infrastructure have been and will
> > continue to be for some time, as they take advantage of the longer
> > release cycle for FC5 to build out some much-needed bits of the project.
>
> I didn't realize I was making a plea. :)
Editor, thy name is hyperbole. ;-)
> I was just talking about working on a man page and some better examples
> in the readme as well as making a webpage, at all.
>
> The plan for the webpage is simply to put them in the wiki and have a
> file-dump point for tarballs and what not somewhere else on
> fedoraproject.org.
>
> That's all.
OK, just trying to rustle up some assistance since things have been a
little slow on our list of late.
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Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/
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18 years, 9 months
