Intro, Revised and Reformulated

Tue Mar 25 05:35:22 UTC 2008

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Zachary Hamed <zachfedora at gmail.com> wrote:
> EDIT: Sorry, I just read the Fedora requirements for this introduction
>  email, so I'm resending my previous one with corrections. Please
>  disregard my previous email, and sorry for the inconvenience.
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>
>  Hi everyone,
>  My name is Zachary Hamed, Zach for short, and I live in the New York
>  City area, USA. I'm a sophomore (grade 10) high school student at
>  Collegiate School, and I got interested in Linux in general about a
>  year ago. I tried OpenSUSE and found the installation to be a huge
>  pain, so I switched to Fedora and have been using it ever since
>  (dual-booting with Vista (1) because of school work and (2) because I
>  can't get my Broadcom WiFi card to work with Fedora 8...grr...). I
>  also just finished reading two books about Linux and the Open Source
>  movement (Rebel Code: Inside Linux and the Open Source Revolution, by
>  Glyn Moody, and Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental
>  Revolutionary, by Linus Tovalds and David Diamond, both of which I
>  highly recommend).
>
>  I have a bit of programming experience. I can program pretty well in
>  BASIC, and my dad is a computer programmer for a living. I'm also in
>  the process of learning Ruby (and Rails for that matter). I've written
>  a book on computers (www.joiningthedigitalworld.com) that I edited
>  completely by myself, and of which I've sold about 200-250 copies
>  (available on Amazon, BarnesAndNoble.com, and other retailers online).
>  I'm now working on a project called Ease of Tech (www.easeoftech.com),
>  which is kind of an Adobe AIR type overlay system to an OS...can't
>  really get into it in detail here.
>
>  In terms of what I would like to do for the Fedora Project, I can't
>  really contribute much to the coding side, but I would love to help
>  out in any way I can (I know it'll look good on the college
>  applications; hoping to go to MIT!). Additionally, I am a very good
>  English student (not my favorite subject, but I do well), so I would
>  like to edit as many documents as I can, and I can even write some
>  docs on newbie things (as I am one anyway). One thing I think is
>  lacking for the documentation project is some kind of complete guide
>  for complete newcomers to Linux. Ubuntu has been attracting a lot more
>  users because of this, and I think Fedora could be a real alternative
>  to Mac and Windows for older people if they had a comprehensive guide
>  to just about everything up until the post-install period—it's also
>  something I wouldn't mind working on.
>
>  I think I'm a good match for the project because I'm a hard worker, am
>  good in English (and getting better with programming), and really want
>  to contribute to the community.
>
>  I looked over the Style Guide and the associated rules, most to all of
>  which I am familiar with (my school has a grammar proficiency test
>  every year which I always pass, thought it's pass/fail so I can't
>  share any grades with you). Again, it would be great for me to be
>  another step in the editing process, or to even make a guide of my
>  own.
>
>  Can anyone tell me where I go from here? What you guys are doing so
>  far? I should get the gist of it once I get daily mailing list
>  digests, but just in case...
>
>  Thanks,
>  Zach
>
>  P.S. This email is in no way representative of my "formal writing"
>  writing style; I had to rant and use parentheses a bit more than I
>  usually do.
>
>  P.P.S. I'm still new to the idea of signing emails with this key. I
>  submitted the key (or what I think was a key) to pgp.mit.edu, but is
>  the stuff below in the correct format? I saw what format it *should*
>  be in on the Fedora intro-email page, but I don't want to screw up and
>  send out my private key, because apparently that would be really bad.
>  All I did below was paste the text copied when I right-clicked on my
>  key and selected "Copy Public Key" (this is in "Passwords and
>  Encrypted Keys").
>
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Hey,

I usually add the following to the end:

pub   1024D/81B3FDEB 2007-09-19 [expires: 2008-09-18]
Key fingerprint = 4ED9 9907 5BF0 4132 2B46  20D1 C0C6 362D 81B3 FDEB
Murray McAllister (Fedora Docs Project / mdious) <murray.mcallister at gmail.com>
sub   2048g/B04CFA0C 2007-09-19 [expires: 2008-09-18]

You can get this information by running "gpg --fingerprint
user at address.com...in my case this would be "gpg --fingerprint
murray.mcallister at gmail.com".

Hope the helps...

Thanks,

Murray.

pub   1024D/81B3FDEB 2007-09-19 [expires: 2008-09-18]
Key fingerprint = 4ED9 9907 5BF0 4132 2B46  20D1 C0C6 362D 81B3 FDEB
Murray McAllister (Fedora Docs Project / mdious) <murray.mcallister at gmail.com>
sub   2048g/B04CFA0C 2007-09-19 [expires: 2008-09-18]