self-introduction: Deon Lackey

Ella Deon Lackey deon at deonlackey.com
Thu Aug 21 20:30:13 UTC 2008


Hi.

I am signing up for the fedora-docs group. My name is Ella Deon Lackey 
(and I answer to Ella or Deon). I live north of Tulsa, Oklahoma (that's 
Central Time in the US). I am a contract tech writer and freelance 
writer; I work mainly with software and tech companies, although I 
dabble in anything - alternative energy, home furnishings, HVAC. I've 
been a professional writer for over six years.

My main goal for joining the group is to observe, get a new way of 
approaching my work, forge some relationships with users and other 
writers. It's easy to get insulated and to fall into a habit with 
writing and with life in general. I want to branch out. The Fedora 
Project encourages collaboration and interaction at every stage of a 
project, and that's awesome.

I'm new to the Fedora Project (despite having used Fedora or Red Hat for 
a few years), but I do have a lot of experience with two other Fedora 
Projects, Fedora Directory Server and Dogtag Certificate System (check 
them out at directory.fedoraproject.org and pki.fedoraproject.org). I 
think I could help out with the SELinux and RPM documentation on the 
task list, and I'm good for bug fixing and formatting changes.

I have basically no real programming experience; I'm what I call a 
"practical user" of RHEL 4 and Fedora 8, meaning I poke around to 
install and configure things and use it for regular business, but I'm 
not adventurous about scripting things. I also have a lot of experience 
with wikis, static web design (HTML and CSS), very limited graphic 
design skills, and years of experience with DocBook XML and, to a lesser 
extent, XSLT. For two years, I was a newspaper reporter, so I also have 
experience writing articles and press releases, researching, conducting 
interviews, copyediting, and biting my tongue.

I have no idea if I'm an excellent match for the project, although I 
hope I have something to offer. I think there is a lot I can learn here.

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Thanks!
Deon Lackey
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