Meeting Agenda Item: Introduction Phillip T. George

[Phillip T. George]

Hey everybody.  I'm looking to join the Fedora project to give something 
back to the community.  I've been a Linux user for quite awhile, and 
Linux has been a big part of a career.

Previous to my current role I was a Linux sysadmin/engineer for a couple 
of years.  My client's environment is made up RHEL (75%), Solaris (<5%), 
and Windows (~20%).  The total server count is around 5-6K -- that does 
include some virtuals, but it is primarily physicals.  I definitely work 
for a large corporation, but I'm not here to represent them in any way 
at this point in time.  I have been using Linux distros for nearly 20 
years (probably since around 1997).

My current role involves automation of existing processes and tools.  
Its a lot of trying to introduce people to common scripting practices as 
well as making systems communicate that previously did not (often 
through an orchestration engine).

I have a lot of skills/knowledge/experiences, some significant, some not 
so much.
Programming/scripting: PHP (w/ MySQL), JS, HTML, CSS, jQuery (mostly for 
UI), bash, C/C++, Java, Objective C, Perl
OSes: Fedora, RHEL, Mac OS X, Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat (pre-enterprise), 
Windows (server 2008, server 2003, 8, 7, XP, and older OSes)

Projects:
1. Fedora customized build for Linux sysadmins/engineers at work (now 
its a retrofit script)
2. PHP-based front-end for a change management tool -- uses an 
orchestration engine to do the work, though all of the orchestration 
steps had to be created (SOAP based in this case, though there were some 
pre-fabricated operations that helped with this a bit)
3. PHP-based server build/configuration tool -- just for Linux but 
planning on using it for other OSes eventually.  Has multiple 
levels/objects you can configure: Server, Profile (multiple), OS (w/ 
hierarchy), and Site/Location
4. PHP-based report/data customized viewer -- a perl script imports a 
massive CSV to allow updating of the data without having to push around 
CSV/spreadsheet files
5. iPhone note sharing app
6. Lots of miscellaneous partially finished projects -- mostly game 
development projects

Unfortunately these projects are not open source, so I cannot share them 
with you.  Though the iPhone note sharing app is not open source, I have 
full rights to it, though I doubt anyone here is interested in that :)

Obviously I have many interests.  The best summary of my interests would 
be: computer-based technology.  A more focused summary would be: Linux 
and programming.

Today, I am interesting in doing some sysadmin/engineer and possibly web 
development work.  Tomorrow (figuratively speaking), it may be more than 
that.  I'm willing to provide up to 5 hours a week of my time.  As far 
as what I would specifically like to work on -- I have no idea.  Right 
now, I'm hear to listen, learn, and absorb. Eventually I'll find 
something.  I will be browsing the open items to see if there is indeed 
something I can try to solution, though not yet knowing much details of 
the infrastructure makes that somewhat difficult.  A quick look at the 
Trac tickets reveals that some cleanup of the tickets might be needed.  
There are some items open since 2007, which implies they may no longer 
be valid (unless there is a review process going on to ensure they are 
indeed valid).

IRC: lanica

-Phillip