Self-Introduction: Adam Moreland

[Adam Moreland]

Adam Moreland
City: Northampton, UNITED KINGDOM, GMT
Profession: BA Media Studies (Hons) Student, University of Northampton | 
Freelance Journalist and Sub-Editor
Affiliations: The University of Northampton, UK | Registered Linux User 
#417406

Goals:
I have done much writing and editing and have had over 50 articles published 
in mostly hard copy magazines. I am highly interested in writing about 
Fedora and also programming, and games, and Wireless Internet. I have 
specific knowledge on the installs on stand alone machines. I am willing to 
write whatever is needed to help out.

Id like to see more documentation on installs, setting up wireless, and 
other subjects, and id also like to see the accuracy of these documents 
remain very, very high, both in spelling and in grammar.

I have an ambition to help out as much as i can. I love Linux and want to 
spread the word about how great Linux is, at the same time as making it more 
accessible to the general public. Part of the problems lie in the complex 
nature of Linux and the huge number of separate resources needed to solve 
problems. Id like to see these issues resolved and brought closer together 
so that the resources can be found in one specific location, the Linux 
Documentation Project. I want to see as many come over from Microsoft as is 
possible to increase the numbers of users on Linux accessing great open 
source applications.

Qualifications:
10 GCSE's - Notable A+ Information and Communications Technology, A - 
English
2 A/S Levels
3 A-Levels, inc Computing and English Literature (B)
BA (Hons) Media Studies student (Start final year Sept 06)

14 years computer experience in building, repairing, upgrading PC's. Moved 
into VB programming 7 years ago, moved onto C++, and am self teaching game 
programming, and Perl and PHP. Started playing with Linux distros last year, 
and work with Fedora Core 5. I have also started becoming highly active on 
FedoraForum.org, and am looking to start Software testing for future OS's 
and Editing for Fedora Documentation Project.

Due to my long experience as a freelance journalist and sub-editor i feel 
like i can bring much to the project. I have a love for Fedora, Linux and 
for the writing process. I enjoy all the aspects of working with Linux. I 
have lots of qualification and experience with Media, and Journalism (Did my 
first year on Journalism). My long experience with Operating Systems and 
Hardware, i have a technical knowledge that will enhance the documentation 
further.

GPG Key:
[root@localhost adam_laura]# gpg --fingerprint AC230C32
pub   1024D/AC230C32 2006-05-21
      Key fingerprint = 14F4 50F5 806C 25A5 B33C  C2BF 982C 87B7 AC23 0C32
uid                  Adam Moreland (MAniX) <journo_bouy(a)hotmail.co.uk&gt;
sub   2048g/A471FCE7 2006-05-21

Adam “ManiX” Moreland

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[Damien Durand]

Adam, welcome to Fedora Docs ;-)

2006/5/21, Adam Moreland <journo_bouy(a)hotmail.co.uk&gt;:
>  Adam Moreland
>  City: Northampton, UNITED KINGDOM, GMT
>  Profession: BA Media Studies (Hons) Student, University of Northampton |
>  Freelance Journalist and Sub-Editor
>  Affiliations: The University of Northampton, UK | Registered Linux User
>  #417406
>
>  Goals:
>  I have done much writing and editing and have had over 50 articles
>  published
>  in mostly hard copy magazines. I am highly interested in writing about
>  Fedora and also programming, and games, and Wireless Internet. I have
>  specific knowledge on the installs on stand alone machines. I am willing
>  to
>  write whatever is needed to help out.
>
>  Id like to see more documentation on installs, setting up wireless, and
>  other subjects, and id also like to see the accuracy of these documents
>  remain very, very high, both in spelling and in grammar.
>
>  I have an ambition to help out as much as i can. I love Linux and want to
>  spread the word about how great Linux is, at the same time as making it
>  more
>  accessible to the general public. Part of the problems lie in the complex
>  nature of Linux and the huge number of separate resources needed to solve
>  problems. Id like to see these issues resolved and brought closer together
>  so that the resources can be found in one specific location, the Linux
>  Documentation Project. I want to see as many come over from Microsoft as
>  is
>  possible to increase the numbers of users on Linux accessing great open
>  source applications.
>
>  Qualifications:
>  10 GCSE's - Notable A+ Information and Communications Technology, A -
>  English
>  2 A/S Levels
>  3 A-Levels, inc Computing and English Literature (B)
>  BA (Hons) Media Studies student (Start final year Sept 06)
>
>  14 years computer experience in building, repairing, upgrading PC's. Moved
>  into VB programming 7 years ago, moved onto C++, and am self teaching game
>  programming, and Perl and PHP. Started playing with Linux distros last
>  year,
>  and work with Fedora Core 5. I have also started becoming highly active on
>  FedoraForum.org, and am looking to start Software testing for future OS's
>  and Editing for Fedora Documentation Project.
>
>  Due to my long experience as a freelance journalist and sub-editor i feel
>  like i can bring much to the project. I have a love for Fedora, Linux and
>  for the writing process. I enjoy all the aspects of working with Linux. I
>  have lots of qualification and experience with Media, and Journalism (Did
>  my
>  first year on Journalism). My long experience with Operating Systems and
>  Hardware, i have a technical knowledge that will enhance the documentation
>  further.
>
>  GPG Key:
>  [root@localhost adam_laura]# gpg --fingerprint AC230C32
>  pub   1024D/AC230C32 2006-05-21
>        Key fingerprint = 14F4 50F5 806C 25A5 B33C  C2BF 982C 87B7 AC23 0C32
>  uid                  Adam Moreland (MAniX) <journo_bouy(a)hotmail.co.uk&gt;
>  sub   2048g/A471FCE7 2006-05-21
>
>  Adam "ManiX" Moreland
>
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[Adam Moreland]

Hey,

First question has to be how and where to get started. I am eager and 
willing and all help is greatly appreciated!! And thanks for the welcome, 
much appreciated. :-)


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> Subject: Re: Self-Introduction: Adam Moreland
> Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 21:20:41 +0200
>
> Adam, welcome to Fedora Docs ;-) 
> >GPG Key:
> >[root@localhost adam_laura]# gpg --fingerprint AC230C32
> >pub   1024D/AC230C32 2006-05-21
> >       Key fingerprint = 14F4 50F5 806C 25A5 B33C  C2BF 982C 87B7 AC23 
> >0C32
> >uid                  Adam Moreland (MAniX) <journo_bouy(a)hotmail.co.uk&gt;
> >sub   2048g/A471FCE7 2006-05-21
> >
> >Adam "ManiX" Moreland
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[Karsten Wade]

On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 20:19 +0000, Adam Moreland wrote:
>  Hey,
>  
>  First question has to be how and where to get started. I am eager and 
>  willing and all help is greatly appreciated!! And thanks for the welcome, 
>  much appreciated. :-) 
Sorry, I was out in the garden yesterday and missed my chance to give
you a first welcome and where to go from here.  But welcome anyway. :)

We suffer from a scatter of information.  Work is underway to make it
better, the old carpenter's leaky roof syndrome I suppose.

This page has much of what you need to start:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/NewWriters

* Link to draft documents you can join with (Docs/Drafts)
* Link to document ideas that (DocsProject/DocIdeas)
* Pointers to what you need for doing DocBook XML in CVS

You need a Fedora account:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/AccountSystem

When you get to the point of asking for 'cvsdocs' group access through
admin.fedoraproject.org, make sure to alert me directly ... I'm not
getting my account request email.  There are a few others who have
permissions to give cvsdocs access,as well.

Wiki is best for short documents, collaboration with the unXMLified,
fast changes, and often just plain collaboration in general.

Right now XML is our target format for longer works, since it gives us
the most flexibility in output and styling.

- Karsten, 'quaid' on #fedora-docs
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cvs / starting editing + help

[Adam Moreland]

Hey Karsten,

> You need a Fedora account:
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/AccountSystem
>
> When you get to the point of asking for 'cvsdocs' group access through
> admin.fedoraproject.org, make sure to alert me directly ... I'm not
> getting my account request email.  There are a few others who have
> permissions to give cvsdocs access,as well. 
I have set up my account with fedora and downloaded the client side 
certificate, but from there i dont know where to go to get cvs group access 
and cant get into admin.fedoraproject.org.

can you, or anyone, give me a pointer as to this?? As mentioned i am 
registered on the account system and have the client-side certs and all keys 
i think (GPG, SSH, Client-side Cert). JUst need to knwo where to go from 
here really. :-)

Mr Adam L Moreland (MAniX) | Registered Linux User: #417406
BA (Hons) Media Studies, 2nd Year, UoN
****
System: Pentium 4 SKT478 2.8GHz Precott, AMD Athlon XP-M 2800+ | GPG Key: 
AC230C32
****
pub   1024D/AC230C32 2006-05-21
Key fingerprint = 14F4 50F5 806C 25A5 B33C  C2BF 982C 87B7 AC23 0C32
uid     Adam Moreland (MAniX) <journo_bouy(a)hotmail.co.uk&gt;
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cvs / starting editing + help

[Patrick W. Barnes]

On Wednesday 24 May 2006 08:57, "Adam Moreland"
<journo_bouy(a)hotmail.co.uk&gt; 
wrote:
>  >You need a Fedora account:
>  >
>  >http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/AccountSystem
>  >
>  >When you get to the point of asking for 'cvsdocs' group access through
>  >admin.fedoraproject.org, make sure to alert me directly ... I'm not
>  >getting my account request email.  There are a few others who have
>  >permissions to give cvsdocs access,as well.
>
>  I have set up my account with fedora and downloaded the client side
>  certificate, but from there i dont know where to go to get cvs group access
>  and cant get into admin.fedoraproject.org.
>
>  can you, or anyone, give me a pointer as to this?? As mentioned i am
>  registered on the account system and have the client-side certs and all
>  keys i think (GPG, SSH, Client-side Cert). JUst need to knwo where to go
>  from here really. :-)
>  
The next step is to request membership in the 'cvsdocs' group in the Account 
System.  This is done from the "Edit your account" page.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/AccountSystem/EditAccount

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[Adam Moreland]

Hey all,

>  > >When you get to the point of asking for 'cvsdocs'
> group access through
>  > >admin.fedoraproject.org, make sure to alert me directly ... I'm not
>  > >getting my account request email.  There are a few others who have
>  > >permissions to give cvsdocs access,as well. 
Have just applied, and so am alerting all whom have permissions!!

> The next step is to request membership in the 'cvsdocs' group
> in the 
> Account
> System.  This is done from the "Edit your account" page.
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/AccountSystem/EditAccount
>
> --
> Patrick "The N-Man" Barnes
> nman64(a)n-man.com 
Thanks Patrick, all done there. I just need it to be authorised...

Mr Adam L Moreland (MAniX) | Registered Linux User: #417406
BA (Hons) Media Studies, 2nd Year, UoN
****
System: Pentium 4 SKT478 2.8GHz Precott, AMD Athlon XP-M 2800+ | GPG Key: 
AC230C32
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pub   1024D/AC230C32 2006-05-21
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uid     Adam Moreland (MAniX) <journo_bouy(a)hotmail.co.uk&gt;
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[Karsten Wade]

On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 17:46 +0000, Adam Moreland wrote:
>  I have an ambition to help out as much as i can. I love Linux and
> want to 
>  spread the word about how great Linux is, at the same time as making it more 
>  accessible to the general public. Part of the problems lie in the complex 
>  nature of Linux and the huge number of separate resources needed to solve 
>  problems. Id like to see these issues resolved and brought closer together 
>  so that the resources can be found in one specific location, the Linux 
>  Documentation Project. I want to see as many come over from Microsoft as is 
>  possible to increase the numbers of users on Linux accessing great open 
>  source applications. 
I'm curious how you see doing this.

I've thought and talked with a few cross-distro content people about how
to tackle the common, commodity, plain old Linux content that is the
same across all distros.  And is there that much the same?

We're talking primarily about userspace here.  When it comes to e.g. the
kernel or other developer-focused content, that comes from the project
itself and is mainly the same across most distros.

Still, it would make great sense for us to take even a useful 30% of the
LDP and find a way for us to add value (upstream fixes, become
maintainers) and derive value (pull the source into the FDP as the base
of some documentation.)  

Still, this would require licensing details be fixed.  We are only using
documents under the OPL without options[1].  In function this means an
author needs to license the work under the OPL without options, but can
also license it under another license (such as the GPL or the GNU FDL).
Thus, a single document can be used as the source by one author.

Stickiness may ensue when we are handing our OPL licensed bits back
upstream.  Would we (FDP) be required to make those bits available under
other licenses?  If so, I don't see that happening anytime soon.

Regardless, if we put together a plan and have some questions, we can
get them answered.

- Karsten

[1] http://opencontent.org/openpub
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[Hugo Cisneiros]

On Sunday 21 May 2006 14:46, Adam Moreland wrote:
>  Adam Moreland
>  City: Northampton, UNITED KINGDOM, GMT
>  Profession: BA Media Studies (Hons) Student, University of Northampton |
>  Freelance Journalist and Sub-Editor
>  Affiliations: The University of Northampton, UK | Registered Linux User
>  #417406 
Hi Adam, welcome aboard!

>  Goals:
>  I have done much writing and editing and have had over 50 articles
>  published in mostly hard copy magazines. I am highly interested in writing
>  about Fedora and also programming, and games, and Wireless Internet. I have
>  specific knowledge on the installs on stand alone machines. I am willing to
>  write whatever is needed to help out.
>
>  Id like to see more documentation on installs, setting up wireless, and
>  other subjects, and id also like to see the accuracy of these documents
>  remain very, very high, both in spelling and in grammar. 
That's good. People commonly likes to write but not pay attention to spelling 
and grammar :-) And we'll need a good co-editor for sure! I'm currently 
interested in writing about Games in Fedora, and a work is currently being 
done in the Wiki:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Games

That's a good start to create a reference for a good Game experience in 
Fedora, all open-sourced. I was thinking on creating a guide, maybe named FGG 
(Fedora Gaming Guide), telling about all the games available, what are they 
about, how to play, etc. I'll present this idea today in the FDSCo meeting at 
#fedora-docs. Maybe you are interested in helping it too :-)

>  Due to my long experience as a freelance journalist and sub-editor i
> feel
>  like i can bring much to the project. I have a love for Fedora, Linux and
>  for the writing process. I enjoy all the aspects of working with Linux. I
>  have lots of qualification and experience with Media, and Journalism (Did
>  my first year on Journalism). My long experience with Operating Systems and
>  Hardware, i have a technical knowledge that will enhance the documentation
>  further. 
That's great!

I'm currently working in FDP mainly with translations. I'm from Brazil and 
here we have many people that likes to write about Fedora and Linux, but they 
don't write in English well (like me, my grammar isn't so good as you have 
noticed :).

One of my ideas is to integrate these foreign people into the upstream FDP, 
and as we get more documents translated to English, we'll have a need for 
good revisions. This project is still in early stages, so we'll stay in 
touch :-)

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[Adam Moreland]

Hey,
> That's good. People commonly likes to write but not pay attention to 
> spelling
> and grammar :-) And we'll need a good co-editor for sure! I'm currently
> interested in writing about Games in Fedora, and a work is currently being
> done in the Wiki: 
I love editing! i know writers do very well at the wriiting, but sometimes 
they could do with help with their grammar. The level of the work here is 
immense. It is all very well written and edited, and you can see the quality 
in the final works.
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Games
>
> That's a good start to create a reference for a good Game experience in
> Fedora, all open-sourced. I was thinking on creating a guide, maybe named 
> FGG
> (Fedora Gaming Guide), telling about all the games available, what are they
> about, how to play, etc. I'll present this idea today in the FDSCo meeting 
> at
> #fedora-docs. Maybe you are interested in helping it too :-) 
I think that is great project to be involved in and i would definatly like 
to see more work done in this area. I would definatly be interested in 
helping out with this.

>  > Due to my long experience as a freelance journalist and
> sub-editor i 
> feel
>  > like i can bring much to the project. I have a love for Fedora, Linux 
> and
>  > for the writing process. I enjoy all the aspects of working with Linux. 
> I
>  > have lots of qualification and experience with Media, and Journalism 
> (Did
>  > my first year on Journalism). My long experience with Operating Systems 
> and
>  > Hardware, i have a technical knowledge that will enhance the 
> documentation
>  > further.
>
> That's great!
>
> I'm currently working in FDP mainly with translations. I'm from Brazil and
> here we have many people that likes to write about Fedora and Linux, but 
> they
> don't write in English well (like me, my grammar isn't so good as you have
> noticed :).
>
> One of my ideas is to integrate these foreign people into the upstream FDP,
> and as we get more documents translated to English, we'll have a need for
> good revisions. This project is still in early stages, so we'll stay in
> touch :-) 
I always enjoy working on revisions and am a good communicator so am able to 
work with many people. I have always had an interest in working on 
translations, and helping perfect the grammar. As they say English is one of 
the hardest languages in the word because of our syntax and grammar, and 
multitude of usages for a single word!! I am keen to work more closly on 
projects like these and get more valuable experience and give back to the 
Linux community, which is both fantastic and supportive.

Keep me posted on the outcomes of the above, and any updates as you know 
them and drop me a line if you need an eye cast over translations, or gaming 
docs.

MAniX (Adam Moreland)

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On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 17:46 +0000, Adam Moreland wrote:
>  Adam Moreland
>  City: Northampton, UNITED KINGDOM, GMT
>  Profession: BA Media Studies (Hons) Student, University of Northampton | 
>  Freelance Journalist and Sub-Editor
>  Affiliations: The University of Northampton, UK | Registered Linux User 
>  #417406 
Aloha and welcome from sunny Hawaii. I look forward to your contributions.