Hello all,
My name is Jonathan Leist. I’m new to this mailing list (but not new to Fedora), so I
wanted to take the opportunity to introduce myself and express my interest in contributing
to the Documentation Project.
I’m currently employed as an Infrastructure Engineer at software company, where my
responsibilities include a mix of systems administration and software development. During
my time as an engineer, I’ve contributed code to projects written in a few different
languages, including PHP, Python, Bash and C/C++; I’ve also dabbled in Rust and Kotlin.
My systems administration responsibilities have also exposed me to quite a few interesting
technologies, including Puppet, Docker, FPM Cookery, and many more. Perhaps more uniquely,
since I work for an Email Service Provider (ESP), I also have extensive experience
building, improving and maintaining email delivery systems, and I can speak extensively
about authentication protocols (SPF, DKIM, DMARC, BIMI), STARTTLS and Mail Transfer Agents
(Postfix and PowerMTA).
While I’ve never contributed documentation to any FLOSS projects like Fedora, I do possess
an English degree and have written extensive documentation and numerous runbooks at my
company. Beyond that, I’m extremely passionate about free software, Linux and the Fedora
Project, and I am eager to give back. Fedora was the first Linux distribution that I ever
installed, and it has been my distribution of choice ever since.
I’m happy to help this project in any capacity possible, but I’m particularly interested
in writing documentation for new users, as I’ve only been using Fedora for a few years
myself. I’m also painfully familiar with the struggles that are associated with
maintaining development environments as a Linux user in a mostly non-Linux office, and I
would love to channel some of my past frustrations into new articles. This is a perfect
example of the type of article that helped me avoid hours of troubleshooting on my
workstation (and which I’d like to emulate):
https://fedoramagazine.org/docker-and-fedora-32/
As of right now, I (conservatively) estimate I should be able to contribute ten or more
hours per week to the project. I live in the Eastern Time Zone, so my local time is either
UTC -4:00 or UTC -5:00, depending on the time of year. Below you’ll find my GPG key:
pub rsa2048/AA2CD859 2020-09-16 [SC] [expires: 2021-09-16]
D7AA3A97BB64CB8D2524B7A4A3E4B552AA2CD859
uid [ultimate] Jonathan Leist (Fedora Project) <jonathan(a)jonathanleist.com>
sub rsa2048/AC885C65 2020-09-16 [E] [expires: 2021-09-16]
I look forward to speaking with you all in the future.
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Jonathan Leist
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