Self-Introduction: Edith Rivero

[Jaromir Hradilek]

Hello Edith,

Welcome aboard! As you probably know, all our documentation is located here:

   http://docs.fedoraproject.org/

You can also find a more or less complete list of books we maintain on 
this page:

   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs_Project_guides_table

All our books are written in DocBook 4.5 XML language. I can see that 
you already have some experience with XML, which should make it easier 
for you to learn this language. I have this book in my bookmarks:

   http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/docbook.html

This book is really great and very helpful when you need to find 
documentation for a particular XML element, but it can also be 
unnecessarily scary: DocBook has a lot of elements, but in real life, 
you don't need to know them all by heart. Instead of reading this book 
from cover to cover, you might want to take a look at the source code of 
some of our books.

Since you mentioned information security, you can type the following at 
a shell prompt to get access to the latest development version of the 
Security Guide (make sure you have the git package installed):

   git clone http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/securityguide.git

This creates a directory named securityguide in your current working 
directory; the XML sources are located in the securityguide/en-US/ 
directory. To build the HTML version of this book, make sure that you 
have the publican and publican-fedora packages installed and run the 
following command from the "securityguide" directory:

   publican build --langs en-US --formats html-single

Then open the tmp/en-US/html-single/index.html in your favorite web 
browser. Of course, Publican can do much more:

 
http://jfearn.fedorapeople.org/en-US/Publican/3.2/html/Users_Guide/index.html

And if you don't feel like reading the whole thing, you can take a look 
at my slides from the Developer Conference in Brno:

   http://www.blackened.cz/tmp/devconf2013.pdf

Of course, if you have any questions or if you just want to say hello, 
you can find us all on FreeNode, channel #fedora-docs.

Cheers,
Jaromir

On 10/21/2013 07:57 PM, Edith Rivero Tupac wrote:
> Name: Edith Rivero --- Time Zone: UTC-5 --- Country: Peru
>
> Hello to everyone on this project. First of all, I hope you can
> understand my English (I have a personal promise of training it every day).
>
> My name is Edith Rivero, i am a peruvian woman who is engaged into Open
> Source since 2010 but just like an user, willing someday participating
> in a real way. Sincerely it was really great for me that the past FUDCON
> took place on my city (Cusco). Participating as a helper in the
> conference encouraged me to look for a project to contribute with. I
> choosed Documentation Project because through documents i could be
> better involved into Fedora and maybe later join to another project :)
>
> What other projects or writing have you worked on in the past?
> This would be my first time participating on writing, but during my
> university times I have participated using Latex tool to transcrive some
> papers. Some other projects I worked on, were those related to
> information security. This is an interesting field for me, so if I could
> choose to start any documentation I would like to start in this field.
> But of course, I will work willingly in any documentation required to be
> done.
>
> What level and type of computer skills do you have?
> I hope to measure it well. I did most of my programming activities on
> Java, so i would say i have an intermediate level. Also, I got involved
> to Php, XML (both intermediae level), Python (basic level) and databases
> MySQL, PosgreSQL (both intermediate level) and Oracle (basic level).
> During my last job I also used tools of Lotus Notes.
> What other skills do you have that might be applicable?
> Well, I have soft-called skills analytical skills, technical skills in
> programming and training skills (my actual job is teaching in an IT
> technical school on the University). Also I can understand things easyly
> and I like to investigate.
>
> What makes you an excellent match for the project?
> My perseverance and my dedication are some of my qualities I am going to
> maintain through this project. Maybe I will have to confront with some
> tools or kind of work that i never used to, but i like challenging
> things and I will make my best effort to solve this in the way it is
> expected.
>
> How much time you can contribute (usually hours per week)?
> I measured my time, and i decided to contribute 6 hours a week to begin.
>
> GPG KEYID and fingerprint:
>
> [root at localhost erivero]# gpg --fingerprint 90CCC38A
> pub   2048R/90CCC38A 2013-10-21 [expires: 2015-10-21]
> Key fingerprint = 2698 9C33 AB4A 3881 163B  40F6 8240 4D8B 90CC C38A
> uid                  Edith Pamela Rivero Tupac <edith.tupac at gmail.com  <mailto:edith.tupac at gmail.com>>
> sub   2048R/85A508CF 2013-10-21 [expires: 2015-10-21]
>
> Sincerely it will be a pleasure to contribute this Fedora's project.
> Thank you for taking time to read this email. It will be really great if
> I got answers of you.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Edith Rivero
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