My name is John Babich. I normally live and work near Baltimore, Maryland in the US. However, I'm temporarily working overseas as a GSM Reporting Manager with Norconsult Telematics. For the record, this is a volunteer effort in my spare time. My Goals and Qualifications I would like to assist the Fedora Core Documentation Project in any way possible. My primary interest is in producing documents to help promote Fedora Core in particular and desktop Linux in general. I'm a long-time user of Linux and I'd like to give something back in return. I see my role initially as an editor/proofreader, but can contribute some articles on the technical aspects of Linux. I've spent the last 25 years working in some aspect of IT and, more recently, telecommunications. I ran my own LAN/WAN integration business and taught public seminars on local area and wide area networks. I also helped start one of the first NetWare user groups and was active in NetWare Users International. I use Fedora Core as my everyday desktop. I take every opportunity to promote Fedora Core in my workplace and among my friends and family. My current assignment requires me to do a great deal of technical writing. These are mostly project status reports in MS Office formats (Word, Excel and PowerPoint). I prefer to work in OpenOffice.org, but a guy's got to eat. I'm new to DocBook and I hope to be up-to-speed shortly, thanks to some great online documentation. Despite the Novell connection, I prefer Fedora Core over SUSE. This is due to my good results with using Red Hat Linux, starting with version 5.0. I say this despite the good old days of using experimental (as in alpha, not beta) video and sound drivers to get a Linux desktop on my IBM ThinkPad. Consequently, I feel I'm an excellent match due to my prior experience with user groups, long history of using Red Hat and Fedora Core, and my current experience with technical writing. Even though I'm a brilliant monolinguist, I get excited at the thought of working on a global multilingual project like Fedora Core. GPG KEYID and Fingerprint pub 1024D/42AF1331 2006-08-12 [expires: 2008-08-11] Key fingerprint = CE8E 40BD 5CB8 8437 787F 8F57 D517 C1DF 42AF 1331 uid John M. Babich (Fedora Project) < <a href="mailto:jmbabich@gmail.com">jmbabich@gmail.com</a>> sub 2048g/9C81B068 2006-08-12 [expires: 2008-08-11]