Self-introduction: Thierry Sayegh De Bellis

[Thierry]

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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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[Karsten Wade]

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
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[Thierry]

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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[John Babich]

Hello to you, Thierry, and welcome to the Docs team.

John Babich

On 11/25/06, Thierry Sayegh De Bellis <linux(a)glossolalie.org&gt; 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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