Just wanted to say hi!

[Christopher Antila]

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Hi!

Welcome to the Fedora Docs Project. I don't usually write the "welcome" 
emails, but here goes...

I think I'm supposed to say "good job" that you found the IRC channel (good 
job!) and then suggest that you attend weekly meetings, about which you can 
find more information here:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Docs_Project_meetings

I do actually suggest you attend meetings, if you can, because it's easy to 
find smaller tasks that will help you get an idea of how things work around 
here.

Another common way for new contributors to join in is with the Release Notes. 
Because these are highly sectionalized, you can work on the parts that 
interest you the most. Each section is called a "beat," and you can find out 
more from here:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Documentation_beats

Also, taking note of your particular interests and abilities, I'm sure you 
realize that Fedora has a lot of existing documentation about security-related 
topics. Check out a list of all our books here:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs_Project_guides_table

No doubt you'll also notice that many of our guides haven't been published 
with Fedora 18, and that some of the guides in the list have been "branched" 
for recent Fedora versions but not published on the website. In particular, 
the "Security-Enhanced Linux Guide" hasn't been published since Fedora 13, 
even though it was "branched" for Fedora 17!

Publishing our existing documentation may be a good way to get started, if you 
wish. Either way, welcome to Docs!


Christopher

On 6 February 2013 22:45:47 a.meesters at meesters-id.nl wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> My name is Alexander Meesters, 28 years of age, father of a beautiful
> daughter(and the second one is being compiled as we speak :-)), from
> Holland(GMT+1).
> 
> I'm currently a Web-developer and Sysadmin in the adult industry. My
> skills range from programming to systems administration. When i wear my
> sysad-hat i manage, and are responsible, for about 40 servers, two of
> which are virtual hosts(KVM/Qemu) running 20 nodes. The systems vary
> from big data housing(40TB+), load-balancers, ram caches, LAMP servers,
> mail servers, database servers and firewalls across three different
> data-center environments.
> 
> The question i get a lot of time is:"Why the hell do you work in the
> adult industry?". Well for one, its the most technical challenge one
> geek could ever have, cause not only must we serve our users content
> very quickly, we also hold databases with some pretty sensitive
> information. That brings me to the second, i am fascinated by security.
> And not just "Hacking", but also in a sense of redundancy and backups.
> 
> The reason i am joining is that i believe that, in the 10+ years i've
> been running Linux, i have acquired knowledge that is worth sharing. And
> also, that if my father and a colleague of him at the time, didn't teach
> me(back then the internet was not accessible for mortals like us), and
> shared their knowledge with me, i wouldn't be who i am now. I also
> believe that when to start something you should always start by
> documenting, first the plan, then the research,
> then write proof of concepts, etc.. etc... Somehow i always find myself
> scribbling notes on my notepad.
> 
> The thing i want to contribute the most to is security, since it is my
> fascination, ever since i had a computer. I also have sufficient
> knowledge of running servers, so i can contribute to that as well if
> needed. Of course i will have to make do in my free time, but also want
> to be a family man... so i think it will around 8~10 hours a week that i
> can make myself available. although i will be idling on irc on work
> hours
> 
> So, if anyone has a question, just shoot! I will be in #fedora-docs,
> but feel free to drop me a mail anytime :-)
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