Self-Introduction: Edward Haddock

[Edward Haddock]

Aloha Karsten,
    I am sorry this email is not signed. I am struggling with setting up 
enigmail for Thunderbird. I will continue to work on it and hopefully 
resolve it soon. Yes I will need some direction. At thsi point I am 
thinking mostly that I can review documentation and see if I can make 
sense of it. I am a novice so hopefully if it makes sense to me it 
should for most. Thank you for the warm response. I look forward to 
helping. :) I am very enthusiastic about FC5 and the possibilities it 
has. I will read that webpage and post some thoughts whne I can.
Mahalo,
Edward

Karsten Wade wrote:

>On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 18:07 -1000, Edward Haddock wrote:
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>>Aloha all,
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>Aloha.  Welcome to the Documentation Project.
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>Just a few quick questions to get started:
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>Do you want direction on which part of the project needs contributors?
>Or even a specific assignment?  Or do you prefer to look around and find
>what you are interested?
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>This is a place to get started; please let us know what is good,
>missing, confusing, and stupid about this page, if you notice anything
>work commenting on:
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>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/NewWriters
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>>    Edward R Haddock Jr here. I live in Wahiawa, Hawaii, USA. I am a 
>>Satellite Systems Technician and Network Manager currently working for 
>>BAE Systems at A Government Satellite Facility. My goals at this point 
>>are not many. I am not a professional writer or editor at all. I would 
>>like to help if I can. I can review documents for grammar/writing style 
>>but am not technically savvy enough to do that side of things. 
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>No problems.  Your skill level in all things is needed, simply because
>Fedora readers/users are at all skill levels.  I guarantee that if you
>are interested enough to read and comment on various documents, you are
>going to find obfuscation :) or unspecified assumptions that the old-
>timey UNIX people wouldn't notice, but need to be spelled out for the
>rest of the world.
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>>I have 
>>not worked on any projects prior to this so I am very new to it all. 
>>Please be patient with me. 
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>Don't know if our reputation proceeds us, but we pride ourselves on
>being, "The kinder, gentler Fedora sub-project." ;-D
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>This makes Fedora Documentation a good place to get started with open
>source projects.  Also, a great thing about working with newbies (like
>me!) is that our enthusiasm is still greater than our cynicism. 
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>This reminds me of how to have fun and success in Aikido, the Japanese
>martial art that means "Way of Harmonizing Energy."  The more enthusiasm
>(energy) that a student brings to the mat, the more fun they are going
>to have getting thrown all over the place.  Often it is more fun to be
>tossed through the air and learn how to land gracefully than to be the
>tosser. :)
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>>I am adequate on the computer. I would say I 
>>am a little above a novice and am definitely new to Fedora. I am very 
>>good with Electronics and those types of things and currently working on 
>>my computer science degree. My main hope here is to contribute to 
>>something I feel is worthwhile. Open Source has inspired me 
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>You are in good company here. :)
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>Welcome, and again, please let us know how you want to be integrated
>into the project (directed at activities or left to own devices).
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>Cheers - Karsten
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