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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 Egg Froglet Tadpole Apex Tadpole with Legs DevConf 2014 Attendee If you build it... (Koji Success III) Baby Badger White Rabbit Rockin' & Rollin' Bloggin' it! (Planet IV) Partners in Crime The Blessing of the FPL Heartbleed Buster Paranoid Panda Senior Editor Senior Badger (Badger II) Vacation Take this and call me in the morning Flock 2014 Speaker White Hat Junior Package Tagger (Package Tagger I) Extra!  Extra! Flock 2014 Attendee Junior Tagger (Tagger I) Nuancier 21 Corporate Drone Party Pirate Badge Muse (Badge Ideas I) In Search of the Bull (Tester I) Dancing with Toshio Readiness Flock 2014 Organizer Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) Let's do lunch! What goes around comes around (Karma I) Master Editor Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Fedora at RH Summit, 2015 Design Ninja Clickbait (Fedora Magazine I) Clickbait (Fedora Magazine II) Bob Loblaw (Planet V) Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) Macaron (Cookie I) Flock 2015 Speaker DevConf 2015 Speaker Chief Editor Origin Clickbait (Fedora Magazine III) Flock 2015 Attendee Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Nom Nom Nom Adult Frog Flock 2015 Organizer Websites.NEXT Nuancier F23 Old Yeller Top 500 Maestro Top 100 Catching the Bull (Tester IV) Badge Muse (Badges Released I) Grandmaster Editor Common Bugs Contributor Black and White (Cookie III) Nuancier F24 Docs FAD 2016 Red Hat Summit 2016 Flock 2016 Speaker Master Badger (Badger III) Flock 2016 Attendee Flock 2016 Organizer Nuancier F26 Nuancier F25 Pizzelle (Cookie IV) Community Messenger I Flock 2017 Attendee Red Hat Summit 2017 Flock 2017 Organizer Steampunk Arcade Board Member Nuancier F28 I Voted: Fedora 31 Fedora Podcast Interviewee What goes around comes around (Karma II) Rainbow (Cookie V) Red Hat Summit 2018 Helping Hand Rollercoaster Restaurant Council Member Parselmouth I Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I) I Voted: Fedora 30 DevConf.cz 2020 Attendee Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III) nest-attendee-2020 Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing III) I Voted: Fedora 33 United Packages of Fedora Magazine Editor Community Survey Taker 2023 Nest Attendee 2021 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