Self Intro: Jason Taylor

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Sun Feb 18 17:53:33 UTC 2007


On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 09:46 -0800, Karsten Wade wrote:
> /me sends another email that has been sitting around all week ...
> 
> On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 13:25 -0500, Jason Taylor wrote: 
> > Well, you all have already read the subject no doubt so you know my
> > name... :) I live near Detroit, MI, USA (EST). I have been using RH for
> > some time now and since I am not a programmer figured helping write
> > documentation would be a good way for me to help out. I don't have any
> > prior experience so will probably need some direction as to how to get
> > started..
> 
> You have stumbled into a good place to get involved.  The fact is, the
> biggest growth in FLOSS projects *has* to start coming from non-coders.
> In short, we have too many coders working on too many apps that will
> never make sense or be used because the UI sucks, there is no good
> documentation, it is untranslated, etc.

Oooo, Karsten comes out swinging!  Yeah baby, +1!  "Don't get mad, get
involved," is the message.

> One thing I am very proud about in this project is the way we have been
> both a gateway for people to get involved in more than just
> documentation, but have also kept those people active in the project.

No matter whom you marry, you never forget your first love. ;-)

/me stops injecting unwanted quips into otherwise serious conversation
and goes back to work.

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