Hello, My name is Chris Byrd (irc nick: cbyrda). I am following the instructions at <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Joining">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Joining</a> in the hopes of being able to contribute to bug triage. I have been a Fedora user since Core 4, although I was a Linux user prior to that (SuSe and Mandrake). I came to Fedora just to give it a spin and I liked it so much it has been my primary distro since. Fedora just feels like home and I'd like to take the next step and contribute where I can. I live on the west coast of the United States (in California) where I work as a software engineer. Most often I'm writing Java code these days but I have had occasion to write C++, C# and python code in the past. I hope that I can be of some help in the triage group and that eventually as I get more experience with Fedora and its community that I might find other ways to contribute. I have tried to follow the linked instructions above as closely as possible, if I have missed something please let me know and I'll correct it. If I am admitted to the triage group I would very much appreciate some advice from existing triage veterans on how I can best come up to speed and become productive. I hope to hear back from the group and I hope I can help. Chris Byrd <a href="mailto:cbyrda@gmail.com">cbyrda@gmail.com</a> cbyrda @ <a href="http://irc.freenode.net">irc.freenode.net</a>