Self-Introduction: Kara Pritchard

Full legal name: Kara J. Pritchard
City, Country: Fairview Heights, IL USA (suburb of St Louis) 
Profession: Own a computer consulting, service, and retail shop.
Company: K&S Pritchard Enterprises, Inc. (www.kspei.com)

Goals: My goals are simple... to contribute.  Since moving on from LPI and 
not having the extended time for publishing projects anymore, the itch to 
contribute somewhere has been strong.  My husband is a maintainer for a 
few Extras packages and suggested I take a look at this project.  I must 
admit that my available free time is erratic, however.

What do you want to write about?
KJP: I'm best with instructional documentation such as HOWTOs, 
Step-By-Step, or Training guides.  Therefore, I think topics geared toward 
the user audience would be the most interesting.

Do you want to edit for grammar/writing and/or technical accuracy?
KJP: I've done technical editing for several book and magazine publishers.  
I'm quite opinionated when it comes to the clarity and feel a reader gets 
from a writing sample.  I'm very good at giving that opinion, so don't ask 
me to do it if you don't want any complaints :)

What other projects or writing have you worked on in the past?
KJP: I authored two editions of the RHCE Exam Cram in '99 and '00.  I 
contributed to a guide to DocBook, been a project reviewer for New 
Riders, an editor for O'Reilly, IDG, and Linux User/Format/Magazine.  I 
was also responsible for all the content development for the LPI exams 
from Dec '99 through this spring.

What level and type of computer skills do you have?
KJP: I'm becoming quite the hardware geek.  I build a lot of Linux-based 
workstations and high-end servers.  I do more admin work when it comes to 
Linux than consulting, installation, etc.  I'm not a programmer, though 
have been known to read through a perl or shell script on occasion.

What other skills do you have that might be applicable? 
KJP: Good people skills, project management background

What makes you an excellent match for the project?
KJP: Long history in the Linux community, prior Linux-related technical 
content development, editing, and management experience. Very 
short-winded.

GPG KEYID and fingerprint

[kara@frell gpgfiles]$ gpg --fingerprint 6DEC5002
pub  1024D/6DEC5002 2002-01-22 Kara Pritchard <kara(a)kspei.com&gt;
     Key fingerprint = 42AC 471F 6E98 8134 C39E  81F4 9F2E 1DEE 6DEC 5002
uid                            Kara Pritchard <kara(a)luci.org&gt;
uid                            Kara Pritchard <kara(a)lpi.org&gt;
sub  1024g/27194020 2002-01-22


Kara Pritchard                          Phone: [phone]
President, KS Computer Room Inc.	kara(a)kspei.com
Southern Illinois Linux Users Group	www.silug.org
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[Karsten Wade]

Welcome Kara!

On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 15:11 -0500, kara(a)kspei.com wrote:
>  Full legal name: Kara J. Pritchard
>  City, Country: Fairview Heights, IL USA (suburb of St Louis) 
>  Profession: Own a computer consulting, service, and retail shop.
>  Company: K&S Pritchard Enterprises, Inc. (www.kspei.com)
>  
>  Goals: My goals are simple... to contribute.  Since moving on from LPI and 
>  not having the extended time for publishing projects anymore, the itch to 
>  contribute somewhere has been strong.  My husband is a maintainer for a 
>  few Extras packages and suggested I take a look at this project.  I must 
>  admit that my available free time is erratic, however. 
Welcome to the club, then.  Personally, I only appear to have free time.
For example, it has taken me thirty minutes to write this far. ;-)

Your background and interests sound perfect.  Do you have any topics you
want to start with?  Or anything half-finished that you'd like to use
the energy during the upcoming Push to Publish Week to get live?

In case you haven't seen it, this is a useful starting page:

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

Whoops, that took another twenty minutes to write.  Off to the weekend
projects. :)

- Karsten

>  What do you want to write about?
>  KJP: I'm best with instructional documentation such as HOWTOs, 
>  Step-By-Step, or Training guides.  Therefore, I think topics geared toward 
>  the user audience would be the most interesting.
>  
>  Do you want to edit for grammar/writing and/or technical accuracy?
>  KJP: I've done technical editing for several book and magazine publishers.  
>  I'm quite opinionated when it comes to the clarity and feel a reader gets 
>  from a writing sample.  I'm very good at giving that opinion, so don't ask 
>  me to do it if you don't want any complaints :)
>  
>  What other projects or writing have you worked on in the past?
>  KJP: I authored two editions of the RHCE Exam Cram in '99 and '00.  I 
>  contributed to a guide to DocBook, been a project reviewer for New 
>  Riders, an editor for O'Reilly, IDG, and Linux User/Format/Magazine.  I 
>  was also responsible for all the content development for the LPI exams 
>  from Dec '99 through this spring.
>  
>  What level and type of computer skills do you have?
>  KJP: I'm becoming quite the hardware geek.  I build a lot of Linux-based 
>  workstations and high-end servers.  I do more admin work when it comes to 
>  Linux than consulting, installation, etc.  I'm not a programmer, though 
>  have been known to read through a perl or shell script on occasion.
>  
>  What other skills do you have that might be applicable? 
>  KJP: Good people skills, project management background
>  
>  What makes you an excellent match for the project?
>  KJP: Long history in the Linux community, prior Linux-related technical 
>  content development, editing, and management experience. Very 
>  short-winded.
>  
>  GPG KEYID and fingerprint
>  
>  [kara@frell gpgfiles]$ gpg --fingerprint 6DEC5002
>  pub  1024D/6DEC5002 2002-01-22 Kara Pritchard <kara(a)kspei.com&gt;
>       Key fingerprint = 42AC 471F 6E98 8134 C39E  81F4 9F2E 1DEE 6DEC 5002
>  uid                            Kara Pritchard <kara(a)luci.org&gt;
>  uid                            Kara Pritchard <kara(a)lpi.org&gt;
>  sub  1024g/27194020 2002-01-22
>  
>  
>  Kara Pritchard                          Phone: [phone]
>  President, KS Computer Room Inc.	kara(a)kspei.com
>  Southern Illinois Linux Users Group	www.silug.org
>  --
>  
>   
-- 
Karsten Wade, RHCE * Sr. Tech Writer * http://people.redhat.com/kwade/
gpg fingerprint:  2680 DBFD D968 3141 0115    5F1B D992 0E06 AD0E 0C41   
                       Red Hat SELinux Guide
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/selinux-guide/

[Gavin Henry]

On Friday 15 Jul 2005 21:11, kara(a)kspei.com wrote:
>  Full legal name: Kara J. Pritchard 
Added:

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

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Kind Regards,

Gavin Henry.
Managing Director.

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