Re: Meeting Agenda Item: Introduction David Shier

[David Shier]

Just gonna resend this with all the variables plugged.....

>  Hello all,
>  
>  My name is David Shier and I am coming back to fedora admin after a 
>  year or two away. My iRC nick is odin2016. Up until about a month and 
>  a half ago, I worked for Jackson in the US as a number of things, but 
>  most relevant to this is my last two positions, as an admin on their 
>  UNIX team, supported our RHEL (5,6,7) and AIX estates, and working in 
>  on the more or less server operations team as a senior associate with 
>  root access to the production environment. I am familiar with bash, 
>  python, and perl, as well as Ansible, which I used at work and at 
>  home.  I'd like to improve my Ansible and python skills, as well as 
>  just keeping my self sharp while I search for a job after my recent 
>  move to Germany. As would be expected I am a linux user at home, 
>  having used redhat/centos, Debian/ubuntu, and Archlinux, as well as a 
>  number of forks of each, Fedora included, but I am also a distro 
>  hopper and am currently messing around with elementary on my laptop, 
>  and once the rest of my stuff gets here... whenever that is.... i'll 
>  be reimaging the raspberry pi and tossing awx on there. At my last 
>  job I worked a good bit with RHDS, and passing data into it from 
>  Active Directory, as I have experience on both sides of that fence as 
>  well. I'm sure there things here I could say, and probably should, 
>  but i've also blocked out large bits of the last year or so, so there 
>  is that.
>  
>  There are a number of tickets that I would *like * to work on, but 
>  before i get to deep into that I need to go and read up on how 
>  thiings int eh infra have changed since I last took a look, clone the 
>  ansible repo and read though there, and so on. I also think I saw 
>  something about updating somethings to python 3, or making sure they 
>  will work. I may take a look at those as well.  I thought I saw 
>  something about the bots as well, but now I don't so may be I am 
>  crazy. I have worked with them before, so if I see it I may just grab 
>  it.
>  
>  I should be at the meeting Thursday (I have a thing at 17:00 CEST), 
>  unless I did the math on time offset really wrong or something, and 
>  will get myself added to the goby doc in the next little bit here.
>  
>  If someone could pop me back into fi-apprentice, that would be 
>  great.. fas is odin2016 as well.
>  
>  Thanks,
>  
>  Dave Shier
>