Introducing Myself

[Tom Cummings]

Hello everyone. I'm Tom Cummings. I'm from the US. I've recently retired
from a full-time corporate job in IT. I worked in many positions from help
desk to team and department management. I focused on infrastructure,
systems/server administration, and system design. I am not a developer, but
I have worked with dev teams and software development projects for
z-series, i-series, and distributed platforms. I have basic skills in Perl
and Python coding.

I have worked with international and remote teams across the world. I speak
and understand (very rusty) German. I have a BA in History, Germanic
Languages and Literature, MBA in IT Management.

I've been using Linux for +20 years - Red Hat, FreeBSD, Gentoo, Slackware,
Ubuntu, and, most recently, Fedora. The IT environment I worked in was
primarily MS/Windows, but with a significant Linux/Unix footprint.
Currently, I am working my way through the Linux Foundation Cloud
Engineering boot camp, but I don't have much practical experience in that
space.

I'm working my way through the Fedora Docs team Contributing guide (
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-docs/contributing/) and
learning AsciiDoc. I'll also work on setting up a workspace with Git and
Vim.

I'd like to contribute to documentation in a way that is most helpful to
the Fedora community while continuing to sharpen my technical capabilities,
especially with servers and cloud engineering. That said, I am ready to
help on whatever needs to be done.

Thanks.
Tom Cummings

[Peter Boy]

Hi Tom,

welcome to the Fedora project!
> Am 08.05.2021 um 16:43 schrieb Tom Cummings :
>
> 'd like to contribute to documentation in a way that is most helpful to the Fedora community while continuing to sharpen my technical capabilities, especially with servers and cloud engineering. That said, I am ready to help on whatever needs to be done.

We are currently in the process of creating a new documentation for Fedora Server Edition. You can view the current status at: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-server/. You will see, a lot has already been achieved. But there is still a lot to do.

And there is an initiative to also recreate the documentation for Fedora Cloud. But we haven't started on that so far, and nothing is showing yet.

Both endeavors would certainly meet your interests. We would be very happy if you would participate. If you decide to jump in, let me know and we can get started right away. Together we can set up the working environment, access to the repository and agree on the next steps.

I can be approached by email at any time, including through my Fedora account [e-mail].  Between 15:00 - 22:00 *UTC* I'm usually also lurking around on IRC #fedora-docs and #fedora-server. My IRC nick is pboyHB.

Best
Peter

[Thomas Cummings]

Thanks Peter!
I'll contact you directly for next steps.

Tom