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I maintain or co-maintain the following packages in [[PackageMaintainers| the Fedora package collection]]:
I maintain or co-maintain the following packages in [[PackageMaintainers| the Fedora package collection]]:
* {{package|blogtk}} -- GNOME application for editing/maintaining blogs
* {{package|blogtk}} -- GNOME application for editing/maintaining blogs
* {{package|drupal6-theme-ninesixty}} -- Ninesixty theme for Drupal 6
* {{package|fedora-release-notes}} -- Release Notes for Fedora
* {{package|fedora-release-notes}} -- Release Notes for Fedora
* {{package|foremost}} -- Recover files by "carving" them from a raw disk
* {{package|foremost}} -- Recover files by "carving" them from a raw disk

Revision as of 22:16, 21 February 2011

Paul W. Frields
Fedora Information
FAS name: pfrields
Fedora email: pfrields@fedoraproject.org
IRC nick: stickster
IRC channels: #fedora-docs, #fedora-mktg, #fedora-admin, #fedora-advisory-board, #fedora-ambassadors, #fredlug (and others)
Fedorapeople page: https://pfrields.fedorapeople.org
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Speak Up! Associate Editor Junior Editor Involvement Tanked! Flock 2013 Attendee Secretary General Pixel Ninja You can call me "Patches" (SCM II) You can call me "Patches" (SCM I) Junior Badger (Badger I) Mugshot Ambassador Packager Sponsor Bona Fide If you build it... (Koji Success II) If you build it... (Koji Success I) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing I) Nuancier Like a Rock (Updates-Stable I) Let Me Introduce Myself Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II) Riddle Me This Flock 2013 Speaker Bloggin' it! (Planet III) Bloggin' it! (Planet I) Bloggin' it! (Planet II) Embryo Froglet Tadpole Egg Tadpole with Legs Apex Baby Badger White Rabbit DevConf 2014 Attendee If you build it... (Koji Success III) Bloggin' it! (Planet IV) Partners in Crime Rockin' & Rollin' Heartbleed Buster White Hat Paranoid Panda Senior Editor The Blessing of the FPL Vacation Take this and call me in the morning Flock 2014 Speaker Flock 2014 Attendee Senior Badger (Badger II) Extra!  Extra! Corporate Drone Party Pirate Nuancier 21 Badge Muse (Badge Ideas I) Junior Package Tagger (Package Tagger I) Junior Tagger (Tagger I) Dancing with Toshio In Search of the Bull (Tester I) Bob Loblaw (Planet V) Flock 2014 Organizer What goes around comes around (Karma I) Master Editor Fedora at RH Summit, 2015 Readiness Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) Let's do lunch! You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) Design Ninja Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Clickbait (Fedora Magazine I) Clickbait (Fedora Magazine II) Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) DevConf 2015 Speaker Flock 2015 Speaker Adult Frog Macaron (Cookie I) Chief Editor Origin Websites.NEXT Nom Nom Nom Flock 2015 Attendee Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Flock 2015 Organizer Clickbait (Fedora Magazine III) Nuancier F23 Top 100 Black and White (Cookie III) Grandmaster Editor Catching the Bull (Tester IV) Common Bugs Contributor Old Yeller Top 500 Maestro Badge Muse (Badges Released I) Nuancier F24 Docs FAD 2016 Flock 2016 Attendee Red Hat Summit 2016 Flock 2016 Organizer Master Badger (Badger III) Nuancier F25 Flock 2016 Speaker Community Messenger I Pizzelle (Cookie IV) Steampunk Arcade Nuancier F26 Red Hat Summit 2017 Flock 2017 Attendee I Voted: Fedora 31 Board Member Flock 2017 Organizer Nuancier F28 Rainbow (Cookie V) Fedora Podcast Interviewee What goes around comes around (Karma II) Rollercoaster Restaurant Council Member Red Hat Summit 2018 Helping Hand Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V) Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I) Parselmouth I I Voted: Fedora 30 Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI) Magazine Editor DevConf.cz 2020 Attendee Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing III) nest-attendee-2020 I Voted: Fedora 33 Nest Attendee 2021 United Packages of Fedora Community Survey Taker 2023 Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee I voted: Fedora 39
 

I work for Red Hat as an engineering operations manager. I joined the company in February 2008 and until July 2010, I served as the Fedora Project Leader and chairman of the Fedora Project Board. I also dabble in the following bits:

I help drive the Fredericksburg (VA) Linux Users Group (FredLUG), which meets twice monthly in my hometown.

I was a founding member of the Fedora Project Board, and served the community there from April 2006 to July 2007.

Active Documents

These documents appear on the Fedora documentation Web site and in Docs CVS . I have done authorial or editorial work on the following documents:

In the past, I've also worked on these (now obsolete) documents:

  • Installation Guides for FC4, FC5
  • SELinux FAQ for FC5
  • Yum Software Management for FC3, FC4

Package Maintenance

I maintain or co-maintain the following packages in the Fedora package collection:

I no longer maintain the following Extras packages:

Obsolete Documents

These are deprecated because of changes over time to Fedora. Currently these still appear in CVS, but may eventually become wistful memories.

Self Introduction

Name: Paul W. Frields

Location: Fredericksburg, VA - USA

Profession: Engineering Project Manager

Company: Red Hat, Inc.

Goals

As a Contributor

  • Help develop a content management system to serve the needs of multiple teams such as the Marketing and Design teams.
  • Provide the odd low-maintenance package such as non-critical add-ons, where my programming skill (or lack thereof) is not a limiting factor.
  • Strive to provide a good example of dealing with other people in a constructive, friendly way at all times.

Skill Areas

HIGH: bash, GNU make, DocBook XML, RHCE (RHL 7.1, RHEL 3 & 5), communication skills (writing, teaching, public speaking)

MEDIUM/LOW: XML/XSL/XSLT, Python, C/C++

GPG Information

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Key fingerprint = 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233  5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717
sub   4096g/46D87F1F 1997-09-19