Welcome Kara!
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 15:11 -0500, kara(a)kspei.com wrote:
Full legal name: Kara J. Pritchard
City, Country: Fairview Heights, IL USA (suburb of St Louis)
Profession: Own a computer consulting, service, and retail shop.
Company: K&S Pritchard Enterprises, Inc. (
www.kspei.com)
Goals: My goals are simple... to contribute. Since moving on from LPI and
not having the extended time for publishing projects anymore, the itch to
contribute somewhere has been strong. My husband is a maintainer for a
few Extras packages and suggested I take a look at this project. I must
admit that my available free time is erratic, however.
Welcome to the club, then. Personally, I only appear to have free time.
For example, it has taken me thirty minutes to write this far. ;-)
Your background and interests sound perfect. Do you have any topics you
want to start with? Or anything half-finished that you'd like to use
the energy during the upcoming Push to Publish Week to get live?
In case you haven't seen it, this is a useful starting page:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/NewWriters
Whoops, that took another twenty minutes to write. Off to the weekend
projects. :)
- Karsten
What do you want to write about?
KJP: I'm best with instructional documentation such as HOWTOs,
Step-By-Step, or Training guides. Therefore, I think topics geared toward
the user audience would be the most interesting.
Do you want to edit for grammar/writing and/or technical accuracy?
KJP: I've done technical editing for several book and magazine publishers.
I'm quite opinionated when it comes to the clarity and feel a reader gets
from a writing sample. I'm very good at giving that opinion, so don't ask
me to do it if you don't want any complaints :)
What other projects or writing have you worked on in the past?
KJP: I authored two editions of the RHCE Exam Cram in '99 and '00. I
contributed to a guide to DocBook, been a project reviewer for New
Riders, an editor for O'Reilly, IDG, and Linux User/Format/Magazine. I
was also responsible for all the content development for the LPI exams
from Dec '99 through this spring.
What level and type of computer skills do you have?
KJP: I'm becoming quite the hardware geek. I build a lot of Linux-based
workstations and high-end servers. I do more admin work when it comes to
Linux than consulting, installation, etc. I'm not a programmer, though
have been known to read through a perl or shell script on occasion.
What other skills do you have that might be applicable?
KJP: Good people skills, project management background
What makes you an excellent match for the project?
KJP: Long history in the Linux community, prior Linux-related technical
content development, editing, and management experience. Very
short-winded.
GPG KEYID and fingerprint
[kara@frell gpgfiles]$ gpg --fingerprint 6DEC5002
pub 1024D/6DEC5002 2002-01-22 Kara Pritchard <kara(a)kspei.com>
Key fingerprint = 42AC 471F 6E98 8134 C39E 81F4 9F2E 1DEE 6DEC 5002
uid Kara Pritchard <kara(a)luci.org>
uid Kara Pritchard <kara(a)lpi.org>
sub 1024g/27194020 2002-01-22
Kara Pritchard Phone: 618-398-3000
President, KS Computer Room Inc. kara(a)kspei.com
Southern Illinois Linux Users Group
www.silug.org
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Karsten Wade, RHCE * Sr. Tech Writer *
http://people.redhat.com/kwade/
gpg fingerprint: 2680 DBFD D968 3141 0115 5F1B D992 0E06 AD0E 0C41
Red Hat SELinux Guide
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/selinux-guide/