Edward Gantt

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1. Full Legal Name: Edward A. Gantt

2. City,Country: Rocklin, CA, USA

3. Status: Student, although I am presently setting up a consulting
           business. Check out http://www.infotechsource.biz for more
           details. I welcome comments about this website.

4. I am going to Heald College in Roseville, CA, studying computer
   security.

5. My goals:

a. Writing documentation experience I could show to a prospective
      employer.
   b. Experience with participation on a team. One can't be a success
      in life being a "lone ranger."
   c. Making a contribution in the Linux community. Instead of 
      complaining, I would like to do something.

6. My interests:

a. Phone modem wireless communication from virtually anywhere
      using a Linux platform.
   b. Using Linux for entertainment, i.e. MP3 playback.
   c. Making Linux applications and data port over to Microsoft 
      Windows environments.

7. My skills:

a. I possess elementary word-processing, spreadsheet, and database
      skills.
   b. I know basic Linux commands.
   c. I am able to work from a standalone laptop PC with a solo FC4 OS.
   d. I can access the Internet from my FC4 laptop either at a coffee
      shop or at home.
   e. I believe that I am a good writer because I have done well in
      my English composition classes.
   f. My technical experience is mainly electronic instrumentation
      calibration and repair. I have written manual test procedures
      and have tested them. Some of the test software I used was based
      a UNIX platform 
   g. I know a little bit about QBasic programming associated with
      MS-DOS.
   h. I have assembled and have repaired network coaxial cables. I also
      know how to make CAT5 cables.
   i. I am CompTIA A+ certified and Novell CNA certified.

8. Conclusion:

I believe that participation in a Linux Project would be a rich and
   rewarding experience to supplement my educational experience at 
   Heald College. I also think that Linux needs to be more competitive
   in the United States as far as the PC business is concerned, so I
   would like to help. In my view, this business seems to be dominated
   by Apple and Microsoft although this situation in all likelihood
   should change. I will do the best I can. I promise to remain humble
   because I don't know every thing. I will try to be respectful to
   all, so let me know how to address you in a manner that suits you.

Best regards to all,

Edward Gantt (just calling me Ed is ok)

[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 22:15 +0000, [e-mail] wrote:
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> Full Legal Name: Edward A. Gantt

[ ...snip... ]

Hi Ed!  Nice to have you aboard.  I know that Karsten is trying to get a
Desktop User Guide up to speed and out the door, but I'm not sure
whether the current status on that doc allows someone to jump in at this
exact moment.  Maybe you should look around our sites and see what
interests you, and report back here with some ideas you would like to
pursue.  There's a lot of ground to cover, and the field is sort of wide
open, which may be why some people get lost at this point -- so much to
do, and where to start?

I would recommend that you take a look at the following -- if you're new
at this you might as well get used to some fo the best tools o' the
trade:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2006-August/msg00081.html

This was a mostly semi-sane exposition I hosted on how to get started
with DocBook XML.  Most big Linux doc projects use it, so you might as
well learn it.  There are other roads you can use, but take it from
someone who also learned it here, DocBook is the way to go.

http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/cvsbook.html.gz

OK, that's a longer and more comprehensive work, but you can skim the
first bit of it to learn about CVS if you don't know how that works.

If you learn just the basics of those two tools you'll be able to
productively write your own content and the rest we can help you with sa
you go.  Some people just write using the Wiki, but I find it irritating
to (a) have to wait for the server to response, and (b) not be able to
really work on the stuff easily if I'm not on the 'net.  Just my $0.02.

Welcome and please ask questions -- we try never to bite here!