Self Introduction: John Mahowald

[John Mahowald]

I'm John Mahowald, an undergraduate computer science student at the
University of St Thomas, MN, USA. I do a bit of programming,
particularly in Java. I've been using Linux since RHL in 2002.
Recently I have done package reviews and sponsored packagers for
Extras, as well as maintain a couple. fedorared on freenode IRC. I
also am a community manager (Jman) at http://fedoraforum.org. Someday
I may want to persue a way of importing some of the how tos there and
polishing them up.

For the docs project I am interested in DocBook-izing existing plain
text documentation and working my way toward writing.  I have done
some decent writing but this would be my first real technical writing
experience. As to editing, I want to do both grammar and technical.

Stuff I would like to see documented more include package building
tools, like plague and a how to for remastering anaconda install CDs.
I also want to push the building packages guide along toward publish
status. Finally, I'm interested in an updated kickstart guide. Overall
I'm into documentation that increases the amount of available software
for Fedora and the number of installed Fedora systems.

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