Hello, My intro

[Chris Johnson]

the below is all still accurate. I got swamped with RL issues earlier this
year.
I'm planning to be around more this fall and would like to help some.
Just wanted to send a bump for this intro
:)


On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Chris Johnson <j.chris.johnson at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've been lurking on the mailing list for a while and I finally
> registered for my fedora account today (username: chrisj)
> I'm interested in helping out as time permits. I got on irc once
> (lurking again) and haven't really logged in since. I'll try to make a
> few meetings after the holidays
> I'm planning to get my personal test systems setup soon. I just moved
> and still getting things straight at home. Bought a 750GB drive last
> night and will be installing F10 over the weekend. I had been running
> the U... distro and it's time to get back to the fedora/RH rpm way of
> doing things :-)
>
> I've used RedHat since before Fedora existed (I think 6 was the first
> one). Started as a hobbyist, 2 years. Then got a job as an admin and
> have been doing Linux admin and Cisco networks for the last 5 years.
> My current employer is a  Win shop so I just get to run the DNS,
> email, and network, but the network is 50 remote offices and 3
> different data centers in the midwest. I don't mind the Windows too
> much and can find my way around them, it's also kinda fun to get the
> Linux and MS products to play nice together. I've worked with a lot of
> different linux and OSS software products including: postfix,
> openldap, apache, bind, samba, mailman, pam, built some custom rpm's,
> etc. I use RHEL mostly at work and some fedora and Cent for testing
> (some suse, deb, and slackware in the past). I used to do lots of
> security firewall apliances with various linux distros (I was a big
> fan of LRP when it would fit on a floppy), most of this is now done
> with Cisco in my world. I can shell script pretty well and I've
> written several perl scripts in the last few years (dabbled in php but
> not enough to know it well). I've always been interested in python but
> don't have much if any exp with it. I also don't have much experience
> with SQL/DB or source control.
>
> I was looking at the FIGs and would be interested in the base sysadmin
> and sysadmin-noc for now while I figure out where everything is and
> what it does. I'm also interested in more info on the sysadmin-tools
> and sysadmin-web FIG.
> So, next just apply for the FIGs, keep lurking, ask some questions,
> show up for IRC meetings?
>
> Thanks all,
> --
> Chris Johnson
> ++++++++++
> j.chris.johnson at gmail.com
> ++++++++++++++++++++
>



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