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Hi everyone,
Since my name is a bit of a mouthful I usually just go by Thierry :-)
I currently live in Cambridge, UK and work for Motorola as a result of a recent acquisition of my employer by said Motorola mammoth. I have been traditionally responsible for anything and everything pertaining to Linux in the business where we mainly use RHEL. Typical exposure would be the corporate web server, some mysql/postgres, ftp, proxy, nfs/nis or a CPU farm running a mixture of x86 and x86_64 arch with too much RAM. I also help with our SCM solution (perforce) and our document management suite.
Due to my friendliness with foreign languages and the fact that I have traveled a bit (lived in France (home), Ireland, Italy (the missus' home) and now UK) and speak 3 languages on a daily basis, I have been known to work as a French translator (actually running the French team) being responsible for the localization of tech manuals, proof-reading, appropriate Q&A and DTP quality control as well as tech & linguistic accuracy.
I fell into IT acting as the part-time sysadmin and within a year ended up being the full-time IT guy, a 'jack of all trades' role where i was dabbing at Netware, Windows and Linux. My then boss paid for my training and so did my following employers; or I did it myself. I own a few MCP and am RHCE on RHEL ES 4.
This background probably makes me a kind of engineer who knows how to spell most of the time and has some heterogeneous systems integration mileage.
My first Linux install was from a few floppies back in '93 (slack?) to a continuous stream of various Redhat flavors, the fedora beta and now rebuilding my home network using FC6. RAID, rsync and all that jazz...
On my spare time I try to learn python (real newbie) when not enjoying some quality time with my best half.
I am willing to give a hand and am open to ideas as to where I can be useful.
cheers
Thierry
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On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 20:10 +0000, Thierry Sayegh De Bellis wrote:
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Hi everyone,
Hi, Thierry, welcome. Sorry for the email delay, the Thu/Fri holiday in the US is quite a distraction; I personally put in six hours of cooking and cleaning on Wed. :)
Since my name is a bit of a mouthful I usually just go by Thierry :-)
I currently live in Cambridge, UK and work for Motorola as a result of a recent acquisition of my employer by said Motorola mammoth. I have been traditionally responsible for anything and everything pertaining to Linux in the business where we mainly use RHEL. Typical exposure would be the corporate web server, some mysql/postgres, ftp, proxy, nfs/nis or a CPU farm running a mixture of x86 and x86_64 arch with too much RAM. I also help with our SCM solution (perforce) and our document management suite.
This is excellent. We are getting a number of new contributors who have strong sysadmin experienced, in multiple areas of business/academia. I'd like to take the successful methods used for the release notes, and apply them to this:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/AdministrationGuide
This means breaking the guide down to concept areas (beats[1]) and having a writer cover one or more.
[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/ReleaseNotes/Beats
Due to my friendliness with foreign languages and the fact that I have traveled a bit (lived in France (home), Ireland, Italy (the missus' home) and now UK) and speak 3 languages on a daily basis, I have been known to work as a French translator (actually running the French team) being responsible for the localization of tech manuals, proof-reading, appropriate Q&A and DTP quality control as well as tech & linguistic accuracy.
How wide do you like to apply yourself to a project? What I mean is, are you interested in "just writing", or are you interested in lending opinion, expertise, and work on technical areas of this project? For example, we are in the midst of planning and executing on migrating a translation CVS into cvs.fedoraproject.org, including some thousands of accounts and a Web application. To make this happen, we need help on many levels.
FWIW, I think the most important thing for a volunteer on a project is to i) do what makes you happy, ii) do what makes you happy, and iii) find out what else makes you happy. So, I'm only asking just in case working on FLOSS trans/docs infrastructure issues makes you happy. :-D
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I am willing to give a hand and am open to ideas as to where I can be useful.
Did I give you enough to consider here, or do you want more to think about? :)
- Karsten
Karsten Wade wrote:
This is excellent. We are getting a number of new contributors who have strong sysadmin experienced, in multiple areas of business/academia. I'd like to take the successful methods used for the release notes, and apply them to this:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/AdministrationGuide
This means breaking the guide down to concept areas (beats[1]) and having a writer cover one or more.
[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/ReleaseNotes/Beats
Good idea! looks quite rational to me.
How wide do you like to apply yourself to a project? What I mean is, are you interested in "just writing", or are you interested in lending opinion, expertise, and work on technical areas of this project?
If I can help with more than just writing I will do it gladly. I'd rather help this project than continue wasting too much time on the internet doing what amounts to generally idling.
cheers
Thierry
Hello to you, Thierry, and welcome to the Docs team.
John Babich
On 11/25/06, Thierry Sayegh De Bellis linux@glossolalie.org wrote:
Karsten Wade wrote:
This is excellent. We are getting a number of new contributors who have strong sysadmin experienced, in multiple areas of business/academia. I'd like to take the successful methods used for the release notes, and apply them to this:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/AdministrationGuide
This means breaking the guide down to concept areas (beats[1]) and having a writer cover one or more.
[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/ReleaseNotes/Beats
Good idea! looks quite rational to me.
How wide do you like to apply yourself to a project? What I mean is, are you interested in "just writing", or are you interested in lending opinion, expertise, and work on technical areas of this project?
If I can help with more than just writing I will do it gladly. I'd rather help this project than continue wasting too much time on the internet doing what amounts to generally idling.
cheers
Thierry
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