Following the format of the Fedora Project self-intro
(
http://www.fedora.us/wiki/SelfIntroduction) and the example of Mike
MacCana. The wordiness is all my fault:
1. Full legal name - Karsten Wade
2. Country, City - USA, Santa Cruz (.ca.us)
3. Profession - Technical Writer
4. Company - Red Hat, Inc.
5. My goals in the Fedora docs project are:
* Support the team in whatever way I can, including technical, QA,
editorial, wordsmithee, professional, community, etc.
* Provide useful documentation for Fedora Core users,
administrators, and developers, starting with the form of tutorials
and HOWTOs.
* Personally author and maintain one to several tutorials or HOWTOs
(no big ideas yet, although I am about to do an x2x implementation,
so will likely start with that).
* Assist with the dox toolchain, build environment, and contributor
guidelines.
6. My historical qualifications:
Work at Red Hat:
* Author, edit, and/or maintain guides for developers (Java API),
system administrators, application admins, and end-users for Red
Hat Applications WAF and CMS (née ArsDigita Community System aka
ACS).
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/rhea/ and
http://rhea.redhat.com/.
These guides are a collaborative effort with the
developers. Because I am not a programmer, the developer guide
required a close relationship with the programmers, who assist by
authoring some content directly into the DocBook SGML. My tasks
have included massive editing of others' work, reworking of old
materials, technical QA, testing, generation of new content,
modernization and standardization of SGML, and extensive usage of
the many OO tags in DocBook.
* Focusing on SELinux implementation and documentation; nothing
produced yet.
* Professional services (PS) team as a systems consultant and project
writer, doing assessments, implementations, the bulk of the major
project writing tasks for 50+ PS consultants, setting standards,
and working with lots of customers.
Work at VA Linux Systems:
* Same as PS work at Red Hat. Also worked on community oriented
projects such as a presentation explaining the benefits of the
open source development methodology.
Other qualifications/skills:
* As a lifelong writer, I've studied journalism, creative writing,
and literature.
* Experienced in many aspects of IT, from end-user through to
business decision makers. RHCE (RHL 8.0), system administration
generalist, and former Windows sysadmin. No computer languages
known. Lots of work with DocBook SGML, some with XML, DSSSL,
XSL, and CSS.
7. GPG KEYID and fingerprint
This is my personal gpg key:
pub 1024D/AD0E0C41 2003-11-26 Karsten G. Wade (quaid|phig)
<karsten(a)karstenwade.com>
Key fingerprint = 2680 DBFD D968 3141 0115 5F1B D992 0E06 AD0E 0C41
sub 1024g/C07806E8 2003-11-26
--
Karsten Wade .:. RHCE .:. Sr. Technical Writer .:. <name_title />
kwade at
redhat.com www.redhat.com/docs <email_URL />
rhea.redhat.com <product id="WAF_CMS" />
www.redhat.com/solutions/security/SELinux.html <product id="SELinux" />
2680 DBFD D968 3141 0115 5F1B D992 0E06 AD0E 0C41 <gpg_fingerprint />