Self-Introduction: Edith Rivero

Thu Oct 24 11:20:17 UTC 2013

What good news!!! Thanks :D

I will be better involved in Publican and within the next days after a
'hello!', it's probably you will read a bunch of sentences/questions
following. (Not such amouth, don't be scared ;) )

Best regards!,

Edith

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Jaromir Hradilek <jhradile at redhat.com>wrote:

> 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<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<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<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<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<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
>>
> --
> Jaromir Hradilek
> Supervisor, Content Services
>
> Red Hat Czech, s. r. o.
> Purkynova 99
> 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic
>
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