Introduction- Greg Krpan

Sat Jul 31 14:55:51 UTC 2010

On Sat, 2010-07-31 at 01:43 -0500, Greg Krpan wrote:
> Hello fellow contributors.
> 
> My name is Greg Krpan and I am looking to contribute to the
> Documentation Project.
> 
> In the past, most of my work has been as a SysAdmin, but I have also
> performed a number of documentation roles as well.  My early
> documentation work was to document servers and data center
> configurations for disaster recovery planning, I have also been
> involved in the creation of a user manual to assist in employee
> migration from Novell Groupwise to Lotus Notes, along with associated
> training in order to familiarize users with the new application.  I
> have been published twice for my work designing and constructing a
> Beowulf-class supercomputer for geographic modelling for the USGS.
> 
> My skill level with computers is high.  I am comfortable with most any
> hardware configurations from PC's to mainframe, and anything in
> between.  Most of my experience has been supporting midrange systems,
> primarily Dell PowerEdge (RHEL) IBM RS/6000 (AIX) and Sun UltraSPARC
> (Solaris).  I build my own PC's for home use, and most recently
> operated my own computer consulting business where I promoted Fedora
> as the primary operating system.
> 
> In the role of a SysAdmin, I have had heavy interaction with users,
> and am able to communicate on any level from "newbie" to expert with
> confidence.  I have also had call center experience, in which patience
> and the ability to calm a customer was paramount to providing a
> pleasant experience for the customer.
> 
> I am a good fit for the documentation project as I believe in
> providing the most complete documentation possible in order to allow
> users to become more self sufficient with their use of the Fedora and
> it's integrated components.  I can break down a problem quickly and
> efficiently in order to develop and document a solution, and can
> relate that solution to any level of audience required.
> 
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> 
> -- 
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> Apollo 1; January 27, 1967 Virgil "Gus" Ivan Grissom, Edward Higgins
> White II, Roger Bruce Chaffee
> Space Shuttle Challenger, Mission STS-51-L; January 28, 1986 Francis
> R. Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Judith A. Resnik, Ellison S. Onizuka,
> Ronald E. McNair, Gregory B. Jarvis, Sharon Christa McAuliffe
> Space Shuttle Columbia, Mission STS-107; February 1, 2003 Rick D.
> Husband, William C. McCool, Michael P. Anderson, Kalpana Chawla, David
> M. Brown, Laurel Blair Salton Clark, Ilan Ramon

Greg,

Welcome aboard.

Right now we are in the process of arranging "Beat Writers" for Fedora
14.  Beat writers pick a specific area to write about, and capture their
Release Notes contribution on the wiki.  Later in the cycle, the wiki is
converted to DocBook for the final Release Notes.

Take a look at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Documentation_beats
and see whether any of the beats interest you.  (Hardware maybe?).
Earlier versions of the release notes are available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/index.html so you can get a feel for
what we do.

In addition, there are a number of guides we update each release
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs_Project_guides_table

And, we also get involved in other tasks like announcements (generally
in partnership with Marketing) and other various writing tasks.

If there is a beat or guide that interests you, add your name to the
appropriate place (it is a wiki after all). 

And again, Welcome
--McD