Self Introduction

[Dayle Parker]

Hello all:

My name is Dayle Parker, and I'm a content author at Red Hat working at 
the Brisbane, Australia office. I joined Red Hat back in January of this 
year, and I've been working on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
Virtualization docs ever since.

Prior to my Red Hat days, my realm revolved around writing and editing 
-  I was a journalist for various newspapers in both Australia and 
Canada (where I hail from originally). I've also been editor of a 
university magazine, social media coordinator for a plush toy company, 
and web content writer for several web sites, where I also learned some 
HTML along the way.

I grew up around computers, playing DOS games (like Ski or Die and 
Commander Keen) and learning graphics on early versions of Photoshop and 
Illustrator. I encountered Tux occasionally over the years, it wasn't 
until I joined Red Hat that I became fully immersed in Linux. There is 
still lots to learn, but I plan to test my growing command line know-how 
by taking the RHCSA exam this year. I'm quite comfortable writing in 
Docbook XML, and familiar with the docs creation process from my months 
as a Red Hat writer. I must mention I'm also a stickler for grammar and 
spelling, and believe it's very important to publish accurate, 
well-written, and readable docs.

To begin my involvement with Fedora Docs, I'll be working with the other 
RHEL Virtualization authors to bring these guides into Fedora. I'm also 
looking forward to getting involved with other Fedora docs projects and 
working with you all.

[dayle@localhost ~]$ gpg --fingerprint
pub   2048R/A5EE98B6 2012-06-13 [expires: 2014-06-13]
Key fingerprint = 341F 1B88 2E97 32CB 31B4  5A62 8254 270B A5EE 98B6
uid                  Dayle Parker <dayleparker(a)redhat.com&gt;
sub   2048R/0AACA099 2012-06-13 [expires: 2014-06-13]

Cheers,
Dayle

-- 
Dayle Parker
Content Author
Engineering Content Services

Red Hat Asia Pacific -- Brisbane, Australia

[Sita-pati das]

Hey Dale, welcome!

Good to see more action happening on this side of the fence.

I just pushed a new version of the Docs Hack system, and I'm looking
for user feedback (as well as finishing the book).

If you could take a minute to give it a try, that would be great.

It's at www.fedorareloaded.com. If you click on the editable books on
this server link towards the bottom you'll be able to see the
"Introducing Fedora" book.

If you could choose a small piece that hasn't been written yet, and
write something that would be great.

I'm interested in overall experience feedback, first time user
usability feedback, and feedback about the new auto tag closure
feature.

I'm working on getting it integrated with Fedora 17's app server, and
integrating it with git next.

Thanks!
- Josh

~ Kirtan is Life! ~
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On 13/06/2012, at 12:35 PM, Dayle Parker <dayleparker(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:

>  Hello all:
>
>  My name is Dayle Parker, and I'm a content author at Red Hat working at the Brisbane,
> Australia office. I joined Red Hat back in January of this year, and I've been working
> on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtualization docs ever since.
>
>  Prior to my Red Hat days, my realm revolved around writing and editing -  I was a
> journalist for various newspapers in both Australia and Canada (where I hail from
> originally). I've also been editor of a university magazine, social media coordinator
> for a plush toy company, and web content writer for several web sites, where I also
> learned some HTML along the way.
>
>  I grew up around computers, playing DOS games (like Ski or Die and Commander Keen) and
> learning graphics on early versions of Photoshop and Illustrator. I encountered Tux
> occasionally over the years, it wasn't until I joined Red Hat that I became fully
> immersed in Linux. There is still lots to learn, but I plan to test my growing command
> line know-how by taking the RHCSA exam this year. I'm quite comfortable writing in
> Docbook XML, and familiar with the docs creation process from my months as a Red Hat
> writer. I must mention I'm also a stickler for grammar and spelling, and believe
> it's very important to publish accurate, well-written, and readable docs.
>
>  To begin my involvement with Fedora Docs, I'll be working with the other RHEL
> Virtualization authors to bring these guides into Fedora. I'm also looking forward to
> getting involved with other Fedora docs projects and working with you all.
>
>  [dayle@localhost ~]$ gpg --fingerprint
>  pub   2048R/A5EE98B6 2012-06-13 [expires: 2014-06-13]
>  Key fingerprint = 341F 1B88 2E97 32CB 31B4  5A62 8254 270B A5EE 98B6
>  uid                  Dayle Parker <dayleparker(a)redhat.com&gt;
>  sub   2048R/0AACA099 2012-06-13 [expires: 2014-06-13]
>
>  Cheers,
>  Dayle
>
>  --
>  Dayle Parker
>  Content Author
>  Engineering Content Services
>
>  Red Hat Asia Pacific -- Brisbane, Australia
>
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[Ben Cotton]

Welcome, Dayle! I take it you don't need an explanation of DocBook or
publican, so please go ahead and request membership in the docs (and
once you're in that, docs-writers) groups in FAS so you'll have commit
access to the git repos.

We meet at 1400 UTC on Mondays in #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net
and you'll find many of us in #fedora-docs throughout the week. Please
feel free to ask on the mailing list or in chat if you have any
questions.

-- 
Ben Cotton
Fedora Docs Leader