Introduction

[Daniel J. Ashcom]

Greetings to everyone!

      My name's Danny and I wanted to introduce myself and offer my help 
with the Fedora Infrastructure group.  I just finished a grad-level 
course last semester on Linux administration (CentOS 6) and will be 
studying soon for RHCSA.  I've been casually learning Linux for a few 
years now.  My experience is limited to simple shell scripts and basic 
administration tasks but I'm a fast learner and really excited about 
helping out and expanding my skill-set.

      I finally took the plunge and switched my laptop over to Fedora 
16, which I use for all of my daily computing needs.  To me it's much 
more than just a hobby because I have strong convictions about the open 
source software movement and I see the importance that the internet 
plays vis a vis social media and political awakenings just this last 
year.  That's not to mention I have so many long-standing interests that 
intersect here (writing, web design & digital art, security, 
programming, music production, increasing the utilization of computers 
for treatment of PTSD and other forms of mental illness.)  I'm also a 
therapist, by the way.

      I'm very much interested in:
--learning Perl, Python or any other languages that could be put to use; 
(my)SQL;
--system administration;
--troubleshooting;
--writing content;

     What I've learned so far:
I may not remember every bit of it but last semester I covered a wide 
range of essential system administration tasks such as service 
management, securing systems, setting up web, ftp, ntp, nfs and other 
servers, mySQL, basic Bash and Perl scripting, basic Java, C 
programming, backups, troubleshooting and many other things.

Thanks and I very much look forward to developing a working relationship 
with all of you and the many things I will undoubtedly learn from doing 
so.  Please let me know where I can begin in becoming a productive 
member of the team.

Danny Ashcom (irc: dashcom)