Self-Introduction: Rüdiger Landmann

[Rüdiger Landmann]

Hi all,

By way of introduction....

What other projects or writing have you worked on in the past?
I'm currently employed as a content author by Red Hat. Prior to this, I 
was running my own computer support and repair business and developing 
documentation for clients was a regular part of the work. Most of this 
was in the form of "how-to"s to enable domestic and small business users 
to carry out various tasks.

In my spare time, I'm a Wikipediholic with around 45,000 edits to my name.

What level and type of computer skills do you have?
I have extensive hardware troubleshooting skills and more experience 
than I care to think about in troubleshooting and repairing broken 
Windows installations :)

I'm a relative newcomer to Linux – I'd dabbled a bit over the years but 
only started using it regularly about 18 months ago, and pretty much 
exclusively around 12 months ago. The move was prompted by the 
deteriorating performance of Windows XP on my main business/personal 
computer and that spending my work time troubleshooting other people's 
Windows disasters left me with little enthusiasm for troubleshooting my 
own after hours!

* What other skills do you have that might be applicable? User interface 
design, other so-called soft skills (people skills), programming, etc.

I was a teacher in a previous career, and have skills and experience in 
explaining concepts and procedures to others.

* What makes you an excellent match for the project?

I'm enthusiastic (even zealous!) about Linux on the desktop and have the 
writing and teaching skills to communicate that to others, and I'm 
looking forward to contributing here. :)

* GPG KEYID and fingerprint
[rlandmann at schwalbe ~]$ gpg --fingerprint CCBD85A8
pub 1024D/CCBD85A8 2008-12-03
eKy fingerprint = B9AA 4775 B046 5845 559F F5B2 174C EF76 CCBD 85A8
uid R\xfc\x64iger Landmann <r.landmann at redhat.com>
sub 1024g/F17C9A84 2008-12-03