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Self-Introduction: Jonathan Roberts
by Jonathan Roberts 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

Hi! My name is Jonathan Roberts and I've been following the list for a while and thinking about contributing but not really sure about the best place to start - I figured I can't go wrong with a self-introduction :D Things you may want to know about me: I live in the UK and I'm currently taking a gap year before heading off to university to study Theology, rather bizarely after changing my mind about studying Physics and Philosophy last year! To help me pass the time I've worked on a few projects: the Questions Please... podcast (http://questionsplease.org) where I've interviewed a range of very exciting people including Richard Stallman, Jeremy Allison, Jeff Waugh and Mark Shuttleworth - though struggling to get a hold of someone from the Fedora Project; I've also almost finished producing the "Free Me" DVD - an attempt to promote free culture in general (http://questionsplease.org/freeme/) which I'm quite excited about. As for my qualifications as a writer/editor: I studied English at higher level on the International Bacallaureate and scored a 5 (hugely disappointed not to have got a 6); I've been doing a bit of writing for Free Software Magazine (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blog/31677) and also a bit of editing when they've been short on time. I don't really have an idea of specific documents I would like to (help) write at the minute, I'll be sure to give this some thought over the next few days, but I do know that I would like to contribute back something to Fedora and I have the time and the inclination to, hopefully, make a reasonable contribution to the documentation project; if there's ever any editing that needs doing I'm happy to look over things like that as well. Well, that is possibly the longest self introduction you're ever likely to see?! Oh, and my GPG Key ID etc: B923BC72 1735 EF16 3EF2 EF9D A2DD 02B0 A791 8B23 B923 BC72 I prefer, however, to use webmail because I often access my e-mail from a number of different systems and it's easier for me to stay organised this way. I hope this is OK. Yours kindly, Jonathan Roberts

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Self-Introduction: Peter Sulyok
by Sulyok Peti 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

Dear Fedora Members, My name is Péter Sulyok. I am from Budapest, Hungary. (+0100) I work on software development for a multinational mobile corp. I would like to take part in translation of docs/websites/packages, and start the Hungarian Welcome page in the wiki. I have been hanging around Fedora Project since the beginning. I have translated several packages for Fedora and other projects. I tried to write documentation (Firewall Tutorial), develop config tool (GUI for iptables) for Fedora. I have graduated in computer sciences, but I have got my computer skills mainly from the free softwares in the Internet. I work with Java, Oracle PL/SQL, and shell scripts now. I am also familiar with Python, C, C++, PHP, GTK+, QT, autoconf/automake, cvs, subversion, PostgreSQL, and system administration. Some of my products are available here: http://sp.web.elte.hu/index.html.en [peti@sutty ~]$ gpg --fingerprint E2EA75DC pub 1024D/E2EA75DC 2004-10-07 Key fingerprint = EE9A 945B C9FA 2943 656A A75A A92A 82E9 E2EA 75DC uid Sulyok Péter <peti(a)sulyok.hu> sub 2048g/DE2CE616 2004-10-07 Best Regards, Peti

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Fedora 7 DUG
by Karsten Wade 11 Apr '07

11 Apr '07

We need someone to step forward as a lead writer for the DUG. Is that John? You certainly did the bulk of that work in the last months before release. For Fedora 7, we can address some of the issues that we've known about, and which have come up in recent discussions: * Adding KDE * Continue focusing around tasks (what you can do, how to do it) * Push concept material (what is) to other documents For KDE, we'll need someone who knows KDE to write matching sections with the equivalent software. Anyone here interested? Or do we need to recruit someone? Bart has wrote down the process he used for converting the Wiki to XML. While I'm tempted to keep it in XML and edit that directly, I wonder if we'll still get more and better content if we use the Wiki and convert in a few weeks. - Karsten -- Karsten Wade, RHCE, 108 Editor ^ Fedora Documentation Project Sr. Developer Relations Mgr. | fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject quaid.108.redhat.com | gpg key: AD0E0C41 ////////////////////////////////// \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

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Self-Introduction: Vincenzo Di Biaggio
by Vincenzo Di Biaggio 11 Apr '07

11 Apr '07

Hi! I am Vincenzo Di Biaggio, i live in San Salvo, (CH), Abruzzo, Italy ( beautifulst sea and landscapes :D ) I work in a small company that it works in the automotive (quality control) I have studied until the 4 ' year of industrial and technical institute, but I have achieved a certificate for webmastering. I would want to participate to the translation of the documentation, which it's a your choice. I know the system linux much good, I php and know to realize Internet web sites with xhtml, xml, xslt, php, msql and much moore. I love the software open-source and the translation is useful also to improve my English :°) I hope that you will accept to me, I will be much happy!

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Self-Introduction: Fabian Affolter
by Fabian Affolter 11 Apr '07

11 Apr '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, My Name is Fabian Affolter and I'm living in Berne / Switzerland. After 15 years of using computers my skills are only between intermediate and advanced stage, I'm not an expert. I wrote articles for it-relateted magazines in Switzerland about WLAN. Today most of my articles and tutorials are placed in the german fedora wiki ( fedorawiki.de ). Now I think it's time to add some stuff in german to the original fedoraproject wiki. Please visit this page for more details about me: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FabianAffolter Regards, Fabian 2F6C 930F D3C4 7E38 6AFA 4EB4 E23C D2DD 36A4 397F -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGBp0S4jzS3TakOX8RAiFmAJ9Rva9SF1TfTrKeVwymWKBxcHwGpACghxF3 ofTgUz9itSfDmLBbJ0RuYgQ= =/wx5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Self-Introduction: vmlinz
by vmlinz 11 Apr '07

11 Apr '07

Hi all, I'm vmlinz ,a student of Southwest JiaoTong University,China. When I know something about linux ,I'm longing for learning anything of it ,but here in my University there are not so much person involved in it. I'm not so skilled in linux ,but I want to learn it. Here my chance comes, the project give me a chance to do it. And i will try my best to do it . My GPG KEYID and fingerprint: [unconscious@vmlinz ~]$ gpg --fingerprint B87CD498 pub 1024D/B87CD498 2007-03-23 Key fingerprint = 05AF 9C1D 7A87 CCFB 499E 60F1 2D43 555C B87C D498 uid vmlinz (college student) <vmlinz(a)gmail.com> sub 2048g/F2A5B0C6 2007-03-23 Sincerely VmlinzQi.

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Getting started: DUG
by Jonathan Roberts 01 Apr '07

01 Apr '07

Hi, I've been looking over all the information and feel I'm ready to get started. The only trouble is that I'm reluctant to in case I over step the mark and make changes that I think are necessary/useful but others might not agree with and I'd hate to create further work for people in undoing my changes! For now there are some paragraphs on the DUG that definitely need a few changes just to read properly and I guess I'll make those as they're only going to be minor and it will be a start :D Guess I'll just take things gradually and ask that somebody tell me if I do something horrible and I'll fix it! Yours, Jon

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Need someone to sponsor me in cvsdoc
by vmlinz 28 Mar '07

28 Mar '07

Hi,all I Need someone to sponsor me in cvsdoc menbership. My user name vmlinz Thanks

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Changes in Docs CVS
by Paul W. Frields 28 Mar '07

28 Mar '07

During the last year the Docs Project has made significant strides in working with the XML in our CVS repository. Our toolchain has improved along with our understanding of how to make better use of our XML content assets. We are making a change that will turn quite a number of translations "fuzzy" but the changes themselves will be quite minimal. Some time ago, because of some toolchain deficiencies, we elected to use the "xml2po -e" option to parse entities when creating POT and PO files. So if our XML looked like this: <para>This paragraph is about &FED;.</para> The POT would use contain this msgid: This paragraph is about Fedora. We are moving now to a better XML handling infrastructure where the POT's msgid will instead look like this: This paragraph is about &FED;. These entity definitions, such as &FED; or &FCVER;, are defined in our docs-common/ module under docs-common/common/entities, and can be translated using normal POT/PO tools. By translating that content, you will allow these entities to be "filled in" after translation, and during the build process. Previously, if an entity changed, the msgid's using that content would all change too. Now changes in the entities can be entirely independent of the content and if we change &FCVER; from "7" to "8," you will not need to update any content. (Entities with actual language content would need to be kept up-to-date, of course!) So, while there will be some temporary minor inconvenience, in the long run this will improve the translation process and lighten your workload. Thank you to everyone who works so hard on the translations of Fedora content! -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Project: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PaulWFrields irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug

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Fedora News Project is Looking for Writers
by Thomas Chung 28 Mar '07

28 Mar '07

Currently Fedora News Project[1] is looking for two or more writers for up-coming-issue of Fedora Weekly News. Selected writers are expected to pick out the several major topics discussed in that week from following mailing lists and summarized them in a few paragraph.: * Development Section: fedora-devel-list, fedora-extras-list and fedora-maintainers-list * Documentation Section: fedora-docs-list * Events and Meetings: fedora-ambassadors-list and fedora-marketing-list These paragraphs will be edited by our editors and eventually published in our next issue of Fedora Weekly News. If you're interested in this project, please contact me as soon as possible. Regards, [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject -- Thomas Chung http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung -- Thomas Chung http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung

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